Figure : Bioenergy (electricity and biogas) can be generated from a variety of sources, including biomass, livestock manure, and food waste. In the pathway studied, we begin with livestock manure and recover biogas through the biochemical process of anaerobic digestion. Biogas can be stored to generate electricity on-demand for sale to the power grid. The remaining digestate can be further processed to recover nutrient-rich fertilizer products and can help achieve nutrient balancing. Farmers can mitigate environmental impacts of manure by deploying manure processing (MP) systems that can generate value-added products . Specifically, manure can be processed in an anaerobic digester to recover a phosphorus-rich digestate and a methane-rich gas mixture (biogas) (see Figure ). Digestate can be further processed into fertilizers and specialty chemicals such as struvite (a slow-release fertilizer), while the biogas can be used to produce electrical power (renew-able bioenergy) and this can be injected into the power grid. As expected, electricity revenues play a key role in promoting the deployment of MP systems ; unfortunately, electrical utilities offer avoided cost rates (usually 40 -60 US/MWh) undercutting wholesale market prices . This explains explain why there are few anaerobic digestion systems installed in the US (there are only 273 on-farm units ) compared to other economies with developed renewables (e.g., Germany has nearly 9000 digesters in operation) . The lack of MP infrastructure in the US hinders attempts to mitigate environmental impacts related to dairy farming.