United States | Ethanol

Even in Texas

A cow town embraces a new fuel

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IT'S best to hold your nose when visiting the Bar G Feedyard near Hereford (the “Beef Capital of the World”) in the Texas Panhandle. Some 125,000 cattle are here, black dots huddled in pens as far as the eye can see. The manure—some 675m lb (300m kg) annually—piles up and gets carted away for fertiliser.

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