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There’s no bedding like sand bedding and that’s all Vern Scherping wanted to use on his dairy after converting to a freestall setup. But once it started taking a toll on his manure-handling equipment and soils, he knew he needed to find a better way to manage the sand, so Scherping began looking for a way to reclaim the sand bedding.
The old system required pushing manure down the center lane to a reception pit. They hauled 40 loads every six days and were also in need of long-term storage.Scherping Farms in Little Falls, Minnesota, is surrounded by wetlands and must keep to a 300-acre footprint. Knowing most manure management systems would not work in this scenario, Scherping contacted Matt Silbernick at Genex Farm Systems in Melrose, Minnesota, to help devise a plan that would suit his family’s land-locked 800-cow dairy.
Dairyman Skip Hardie from the Finger Lakes region of New York has held an interest in methane digesters for quite sometime. He owns and operates Hardie Farms, along with his two partners, Steve Palladino and John Fleming.
Just before World Dairy Expo, I had the pleasure of attending the Energy Production from Anaerobic Digestion of Dairy Manure short course in Madison, Wisconsin.
EPA finalizes the nation’s first greenhouse gas reporting system
On January 1, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will, for the first time, require large emitters of heat-trapping emissions to begin collecting greenhouse gas (GHG) data under a new reporting system.
Three years ago, Harry Faber was running low on sawdust bedding for his 250 milking cows, but when he called for more he was told more could not be received.
Increasingly stringent air-emission regulations and demands to better control odors has put an economic strain on industries that recycle large amounts of organic materials, such as compost facilities, dairies and feedlots.
Composting beef cattle manure, even with minimal management, can significantly reduce the concentrations of antibiotics in the manure, according to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) pilot study.
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