Put in terms of cents per kwh of energy from manure from dairy cows and cost per pound of milk for organic feed. And extra cost to consumers.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/3/7/15040/01451

Farmers get around 27 cents per pound of organic milk. , around $2.17 per gallon.  Around 14 cents of that is organic feed cost, non-organic feed cost  is about half that.

How much energy is in the waste stream from dairying?  At least 10 cents worth of electricity can be obtained from manure (added to waste biomass) per pound of milk.  If government subsidized that with another 10 cents per kwh, that would add about  15 cents per pound of milk in energy profit.  5 cents going to pay for the biogas generation system.

Organic dairy farmers are now claiming they need a 7 cent per pound price increase to maintain a healthy profit picture.  Biogas from recycling manure and waste biomass into organic fertilizer could do that.  And rotational grazing could eliminate most of the 14 cent per pound feed cost, further enhancing the organic farm revenue picture.

Farm and energy policy to make this happen ought to be rolled out on a local, state, and federal level ASAP.

A 7 cent rise in organic milk prices to consumers passed onto farmers would not work.  It would boost the price of organic milk 56 cents per gallon.  That would be bad enough.

But since dairy processors and distributors work on a profit margin, promised to their bankers who leech on an interest based economic model, they will take that 56 cents and triple it, so that consumers will pay over $1.50 cents more per gallon of milk.

This is why farm and energy policy can work so well at fighting inflation, and also why the standard ag and energy policies are so devestating to our economy.