Sentences with phrase «manure produced»

The quantity of manure produced by one dairy cow can be multiplied on a CAFO by hundreds or, in some cases, thousands of heads.

But livestock manure also produces methane as it decomposes in closed - air containers known as lagoons, which factory farming operations often use to store the massive amounts of manure produced by their farms.

Spanning just 275 acres, there is insufficient space to spread the manure produced by the farm's 1,000 + animals, so the waste must be composted or trucked to other farms for disposal.

For dairy farms, the massive amount of cow manure produced by the cows each day can be either a bothersome byproduct that must be dealt with, or it can present a big opportunity.

Here in a heartland of U.S. agriculture, a growing number of farmers are spraying manure produced by animal feeding operations — which can raise thousands of animals on relatively small plots of land — across vast swaths of cropland.

Meanwhile, researchers were showing that besides soil and water contamination, hog CAFOs emit high volumes of the potent greenhouse gas methane (pound for pound, hog manure produces twice the methane of cattle manure) and ammonia, which has been linked to respiratory ailments.

Industrial - scale farms that raise animals for food — called concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), in the parlance of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — have a number of documented impacts on the environment, mostly from the massive quantities of manure they produce.

The animals are healthy and ready to provide fresh milk to drink or sell and the manure they produce can be used to help with crops too.

But federal regulators are failing to control pollution from the gigantic operations or assess health risks from the enormous quantities of manure they produce, according to congressional investigators.

The case underscores one of the major problems with CAFOs, which is the massive amount of manure they produce and the manners by which operators dispose of it, which have major environmental implications.

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)

As a result, an anaerobic digester was built in 2008 as a non-profit organization that provides compost for the Werkhoven Farm (as well as donated to the community), produces energy for over 300 customers in the Puget Sound and valuable biosolids while reducing manure applications to the soil.

Wastewater is treated and the farm uses the 1.2 tons of manure it generates to produce organic compost and bio-fertilizer.

Biodynamic agriculture sees the farm as a self - sustaining ecosystem that must produce its own fertility either from compost or from animal - based manure.

An environmentally - friendly alternative to diesel - fueled trucks, the feed truck's motor is charged from electrical power generated from methane gas produced by the cows» own manure.

Straus and a local mechanic spent eight years developing an environmentally - friendly alternative to diesel - fueled trucks: The feed truck's motor is charged from electrical power generated from methane gas produced by the cows» own manure.

Aside from producing vast quantities of methane, cows also contribute their manure and urine to our rivers and ground water.

When you produce 97 % of your own food, compost all manure (human and animal), make your own clothing, shoes, diapers, wraps, menstrual pads, washable toilet paper, soaps, lanolin, and herbal tinctures, and grow your animals feed, make your house out of a recycled tobacco barn with reclaimed building materials, have no electricity (even solar panels / wind generators leave a huge footprint from manufacture), water coming from your spring / creek, home school your children without fancy curriculum, make your living from your land and being a home birth midwife, etc... then you will see what real life could be.

One dairy cow produces close to eight tons of manure a year.

The governor also announced plans for new incentives for farmers to increase the use of «anaerobic digesters,» which helps turn waste produced on farm — such as cow manure — into energy that farms can use.

Recommendations include crop rotation best suited to local soils; organically derived pesticides and herbicides; locally produced composted and manure fertilizers; and mulch tillage.

One obvious way is through the spreading of animal manure or recycled, treated human sewage on produce fields.

The research carried out by the Departments of Geological and Mining Engineering and Agricultural Production of UPM shows that the biochar produced from manure of cattle, pigs and chicken is an organic fertilizer with a high content of nutrients, stabilized organic material and high values of cation exchange capacity.

The bacteria can be spread to humans through the consumption of infected milk, beef and produce fertilized by cow manure.

In their analysis, the team found that bio-methane produced from all available food waste and dairy manure in the US annually would offset about.74 percent of annual natural gas demand.

Biochar is ground charcoal produced from waste wood, manure or leaves.

The transgenic hogs produce manure containing 75 percent less phosphorus — cleaner even than manure from pigs fed costly enzyme supplements.

At an industrial scale, compost, such as manure, is produced by mixing plant and animal waste.

Rather, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture would drop by 28 percent without farmed animals because of increases associated with producing additional food crops and the use of more synthetic fertilizer to replace manure.

The scientists found that pigs produce even more phosphane than cows — 103 nanograms per kilogram in their colons and 964 nanograms per kilogram in their manure.

Many farmshave already developed methods of converting the billions of tons of animal waste produced each year intomethane for electrical and heat energy; beginning in March, 1,200 households inCalifornia will be powered by cow manure.

In the heart of Wisconsin, a project is underway to produce energy from a resource in little danger of running low: cow manure, also known as «brown gold.»

new research is that manure can be a problem source, and anaerobic digestion using biochar serves to dispose of manure while producing methane to power the farm and possibly be sold to local utilities,» he said.

«The value of the new research is that manure can be a problem source, and anaerobic digestion using biochar serves to dispose of manure while producing methane to power the farm and possibly be sold to local utilities,» he said.

These devices can use waste materials, including sewage and manure, to produce energy cleanly.

There are a few ways greens can be contaminated: at the farm by manure or dirty water rinses; when a sick person preps a salad without washing their hands; and by cross-contamination at home (for example, by using the same cutting board for raw meat and salad prep, which spreads bacteria from meat to produce.)

Your llama either stops producing manure or evacuates only small, dry feces.

Is this a quaint, cheese - producing, quirky neighbor - type farm in the South of France or is this a manure farm in Missouri?

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.

The Pixley Biogas, LLC anaerobic digester facility produces biomethane from cow manure to replace the natural gas used to heat Calgren Renewable Fuels» ethanol vehicle fuel.

This advanced process allows the farm to both compost a higher percentage of the manure and produce better compost.

Ethanol plants produce byproducts that can be used as feed for animals, in turn, factory farms can sell animal manure as fuel for ethanol plants.

Thanks to the revenue generated from selling NativeEnergy's Help Build carbon offsets, Laurelbrook Farm can now compost a higher percentage of the manure and produce better compost.

The henchmen of atheism produced may very well have produced more manure than the horses upon which they figuratively ride.

Manure can be used to produce electricity by using anaerobic digesters to extract bioenergy (in the form of biogas).

Factory farms produce an estimated 500 million tons of manure each year - more than three times the sewage produced by the entire U.S. human population.

Every seven cows produces sufficient manure to power an entire household.

Although not specific to farms with anaerobic digesters, farms producing or using manure require a Nutrient Management Plan.

The company is planning to build a power plant in California that turns the methane gas produced by cow manure into water, electricity, and hydrogen.

Other benefits from the project include producing digested manure solids, which after composting can be sold to landscaping contractors.