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Examining the full scope of international scientific research and industrial development along the entire supply chain, Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining comprises two parts, a website and a scientific review journal. The journal publishes a balanced mixture of peer-reviewed critical reviews, commentary, business news highlights, policy updates and patent intelligence. Biofpr is dedicated to fostering growth in the biorenewables sector and serving its growing interdisciplinary community by providing a unique, systems-based insight into technologies in these fields as well as their industrial development. Biofpr on Wikipedia
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The USA has significant potential to produce energy from anaerobic digesters because of the size of its agricultural sector. The use of anaerobic digesters reduces greenhouse gas emissions from manure management. The financial benefits to farmers come from the on-farm use, or off-farm sales, of biogas and its end products, namely renewable natural gas or electricity. This analysis quantifies the economic incentives necessary for the construction of anaerobic digesters for swine producers and can easily be expanded to include other feedstocks. The results indicate that carbon payments would be a stronger determinant than energy prices in farm-level decisions to install anaerobic digesters, but that energy prices would be influential in determining the optimal biogas end use. 
