Sentences with phrase «as liquid manure»

The plant stores and processes energy crops as well as liquid manure.

Not exact matches

This mixture is pumped into a device which separates the manure's solids and liquids (ten cubic yards of manure solids are produced each day, which are hauled to another location, composted, then spread on fields as fertilizer)

«We've found that when we put liquid feces in a biodigestor, the waste is broken down rapidly, and we can use the resulting liquid as a crop fertilizer, which is less acidic than fresh manure,» Benny says.

This enabled the dairy to use manure solids to be naturally composted and used as fertilizer, and to turn manure liquids back into nutrient - rich water for irrigation of pastures.

This is particularly worrisome as the research also revealed that antibiotic compounds tend to migrate from the liquid parts of the manure into the solids during treatment, making it arguably more important to treat than the latter.

Perhaps instead of focusing on regulation and instead focusing on incenting positive behavior, we could get more digesters in place which would produce clean energy, reduce the amount of nitrogen and other nutrient pollution and provide farmers with another couple sources of revenue (electricity sales, fiber bedding sales (or savings) and increased fertilizer value of the liquid digestate as compared to raw manure.

Digested manure liquids, which are essentially made odorless by the process, will be irrigated on nearby fields as natural fertilizer.