CARD collaborator Jerome Dumortier and CARD faculty John Crespi and Dermot Hayes, along with USDA researchers Molly Burress, Adriana Valcu-Lisman, and Jan Lewandrowski, published an article in the journal Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining. Their article, Regional economic aspects of carbon markets and anaerobic digesters in the USA: the case of swine production, examines the benefits and costs of anaerobic digesters on swine farms. The authors find 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.

A tool developed from this research is available on the CARD tools page: https://www.card.iastate.edu/tools/ad-carbon-markets/.

Regional economic aspects of carbon markets and anaerobic digesters in the USA: the case of swine production
Jerome Dumortier, John Crespi, Dermot J. Hayes, Molly Burress, Adriana Valcu-Lisman, Jan Lewandrowski
Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining
doi: 10.1002/bbb.2615