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Fair Oaks Dairy will partner with Old Bethpage, N.Y.-based Bion Environmental Technologies Inc. to build an ethanol plant powered by animal manure. Executives said Tuesday that construction could begin sometime in 2007, the Post-Tribune reported.
Under the plant's design, waste from every 1,000 dairy cows would be able to provide enough energy to produce 1 million gallons of ethanol.
The process would create ethanol at only three-quarters of the normal cost, while eliminating 20% of operating costs, said David Mager, Bion's vice president of public policy.