‘It matters’: the unlikely way a Midstate farm is generating energy
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – The Pennsylvania Budget is due in less than two weeks and includes what the governor calls “historic” investments, including in agriculture.
Over $10 million is proposed in Governor Josh Shapiro’s 24-25 budget. Shapiro believes that money will help farms do what Dickinson College already is.
“They are literally turning waste into energy,” Shapiro said.
The college has been doing that for about a year. It’s done with an anaerobic digester that turns manure into electricity, which powers the farm and 30 other homes.
“Our students are changing the world before they even leave our campus,” Dickinson College President John E. Jones III said.
Pennsylvania leaders called this method the future of agriculture and energy.
“We’re going to innovate, we’re going to do the things that have really been a hallmark of Pennsylvania agriculture,” PA Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding said. “It matters at the end of the day for the economic competitiveness of agriculture, it matters socially to what we do with food waste and it matters environmentally.”
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