Archive for October, 2010

Extension Specialists Earn Honors for Manure Handling Education

Extension Specialists Earn Honors for Manure Handling Education Wisconsin Ag Connection - 10/19/2010 Creating more than a dozen intentional manure spills may not seem like a good way to protect Wisconsin's water resources. Yet this innovative approach to demonstrating the proper way to contain, clean up and restore a spill site is one of the many ...

Manure Digester Technology Challenging

  Manure Digester Technology Challenging Dec 14, 2010 3:14 PM Manure digesters offer great opportunities for some livestock operations, but adoption of the technology can be challenging. A presentation at the 2010 World Dairy Expo in Madison, WI, outlined some of the advantages and drawbacks interested livestock producers may face.    Anaerobic digestion systems consist of a manure collection system, ...

Md. firm to build Pa. chicken manure power plant

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS October 14, 2010, 3:56PM ET ANNAPOLIS, MD. An Annapolis company says a manure-to-energy plant proposed for a Pennsylvania egg farm will process waste from as many as 5 million chickens. Annapolis-based EnergyWorks North America says its EnergyWorks Biopower subsidiary and Hillandale Farms Gettysburg have agreed to build the 2.5 megawatt plant. The companies say the plant, ...

Do Green Businesses Have Happier Workers?

Do Green Businesses Have Happier Workers?

October 15, 2010 By GreenBiz Staff NOTRE DAME, IN — There are an incalculable number of academic and case studies that show the business benefits of sustainability initiatives, but new research out of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business finds that even a job involving shoveling manure is perceived as more rewarding if workers see the benefit ...

FEECO International unleashes Virtual Lab for Customers

Watch Your Material Run Through Our Virtual Lab!

Customers can now watch their material being tested at the FEECO Lab online without having to travel! Green Bay, WI (October 18, 2010)- FEECO International, one of the world's leading supplier of agglomeration, thermal processing, material handling and waste processing ...

Good educational article about…

Good educational article about farm pollution and the formation and harm of bluegreen algae | http://bit.ly/csLiic