The document discusses various approaches to anaerobic mono-digestion of swine manure for biogas production. It describes several demonstration and commercial-scale facilities in the Netherlands from 1988-1994 that struggled with technical and economic challenges. More recent approaches studied include using carriers to develop biofilms, separation of urine and feces in new stables, and co-digesting manure with other substrates. Testing of different reactor designs like upflow, sequential batch and induced blanket reactors showed varying specific methane yields. The document concludes that mono-digestion of swine manure is only economic with subsidies, while co-digestion with other materials can improve yields and economics.