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The Iowa Trout Stream at the Center of a Feedlot Fight

Civil Eats

The idea, the manager explained, was that Supreme Beef would run a feedlot, and Feeder Creek would supply a biodigester, a machine that would process manure and capture the resulting methane to be sold as energy. The [manager] said, ‘This is not a feedlot; it’s a renewable energy project.

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