GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Consumers Energy is teaming up with Swisslane Farms, a Kent County dairy farm, for a $17 million biodigester project that will turn cow manure into renewable natural gas.

That project is a biodigester, a system that converts cow manure and food waste to renewable natural gas, which was proposed for West Jefferson in Madison County. Now, after months of neighborhood ...

Many neighbors are apprehensive of wanting a biodigester near them after the closing of the controversial Lowell project about 10 miles away from the farm, which residents said had an odor.