Cow-powered Kenworths

One of the largest dairy farms in the country is reducing its carbon footprint. Fair Oaks Farm of Fair Oaks, Indiana has leased 42 Kenworth tractors to haul 300,000 gallons of milk per day from the farm’s 27,000 cows to processing plants in Indiana, Tennessee and Kentucky. The Kenworths’ Cummins engines will run on compressed natural gas supplied the anaerobic digester on the farm. There will be one fueling station near the farm and a second 220 miles southeast of the farm at Sellersburg,

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