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  • March 15th 2009 Issue
  • An Austrian farm is growing cherries in a greenhouse heated with biogas.

    This 1.25-acre greenhouse in Austria will produce cherries to go on the market in March. A farming operation in Austria has planted cherry trees in a greenhouse with the aim of having low-carbon-footprint cherries on the market in March. In 2004, the farm established a biogas unit at Gänserndorf to produce electrical and thermal energy from corn, pig manure, potatoes, and a triticale and vetch mixture. This year, it is also using apples because of the low price of apples in Europe caused by a large crop. About a third of the thermal energy produced is used in the process […]

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