An on-farm methane digester can provide a farm with the opportunity to become more self-sufficient. Income from the digester can come from heat, electricity, tipping fees, and digestate. Tipping fees can come from nutrients with large amounts of methane and little cost to access, or from nutrients with little methane that someone will pay to dispose of. Digestate can be used as fertilizer as the nutrients remain unchanged, and it contains less bacteria and odor than manure. The costs associated with producing electricity can potentially come from being charged more to buy back electricity from the grid, inflation, and metering systems. Utilizing the heat produced is another issue. The heat can be used in the barn, but a second business such as a drying or greenhouse operation could be established. Tipping fees have problems associated with volume. Low methane nutrients take up a lot of volume in the tank, and the use of non-traditional organics requires additional equipment and permits. The main problem with digestate is storage and transportation. By charging to cover the costs of transportation the digestate can be disposed of off-site, but demand may be low especially in off seasons. The various benefits and challenges of managing a digester need to be closely considered before installation.