Biogas has been a popular topic of discussion lately, as the need for energy increases, and sources are being run dry. Sometimes referred to as swamp gas, landfill gas, or digester gas, biogas is generated from anaerobic digesters such as animal manure, sewage, and municipal solid waste. When upgraded to the necessary level of purity, Read More…
Customer: Premium Standard Farms Plant Location: Missouri, U.S.A. Industry: Agriculture Major Equipment: Paddle Mixer Rotary Drum Dryer Product Classification and Recycle Circuit Material and Gas Handling Product Storage and Truck Load-out System Emission Control Technology (ammonia, acid gas, and VOC removal) Plant Controls Material Handled: Dewatered Raw and Digested Hog Manure Engineer: FEECO International, Inc. Read More…
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 Read More…
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 Read More…
Graduate student Annette Pelegrin of Pulaski is this year’s winner of the UW-Green Bay Outstanding Thesis Award. Pelegrin will receive her master’s degree in May in Environmental Science and Policy. Her thesis, “Technical and Economic Feasibility of Solid-liquid Separation for Digested Dairy Manure with Polymer Treatment,” was supervised by Prof. John Katers. Pelegrin will be Read More…
Brown County Waste Transformation Initiative (BCWTI) lab video taken at FEECO International, Inc.
The Brown County Waste Transformation Project (BCWTP) is a feasibility study to find economic and environmental solutions for farmers and industries that land apply wait. Agriculture is a $3 billion a year industry in Brown County which provides jobs for 10 percent of the workforce creating an income of $844.5 million in Brown County. The Read More…
Bay Business Journal Vol 17 #3 (June / July 2009) View / Download the article as a PDF Humans do it, animals do it, factories do it. Even cells do it. Producing waste is just one of those unavoidable evils – right up there with facing our mortality and being accountable to the Internal Revenue Read More…
By Judy Brown Correspondent Chilton, WI (February 4, 2009) – With the highest cattle density in northeastern Wisconsin and urban sprawl sprawling, Brown County has accelerated its investigation into how to handle growing amounts of dairy manure and industrial wastes spread on a diminishing land base. Applying waste on limited crop acreage has led to Read More…
Construction is well underway on a new $9.5 million facility for Premium Standard Farms that will turn hog manure into an odorless organic fertilizer that’s perfect for the putting green. By Ray Ford As a hefty dose of nutrients in an easy-to-deliver slurry, pig manure has a lot to recommend it. But with an aroma Read More…
