Farmers are turning a stinky problem into a solution. What’s next: making it more affordable and even cleaner.

LYNDSEY GILPIN, The Daily Beast.

07.21.18 9:13 PM ET

When Tom Butler switched his North Carolina farm from tobacco to 8,000 hogs two decades ago, he was appalled at the amount of waste the hogs produced, quickly filling massive lagoons with more hog manure than he knew what to do with.

“We decided to look into any kind of innovation to see if we could lessen the impact on community,” he said.