Manure can be processed into a bedding product known as recycled manure solids (RMS). Recycled manure solids can further be processed into dried manure solids (DMS), a product with reduced moisture and pathogen content which is ideal for use as a bedding product.
Bedding recovery from manure offers a number of benefits including the opportunity to alleviate the pressure on farms to handle increasing amounts of manure, while simultaneously solving their bedding issue. Additionally, processing recycled manure solids into dried manure solids provides a product with reduced moisture and pathogen content. The recovery of bedding from manure offers further economic and environmental benefits, including:
Reduced costs. Transporting and land-applying manure is a costly endeavor. Transportation is also limited because of the high moisture content of manure. Using manure on-farm would reduce these costs, as well as the costs associated with purchasing additional bedding.
Additional source of revenue. In some cases, farms may produce more bedding than what they can use. This opens the opportunity to sell their excess supply and gain an additional source of revenue.
A waste is being recycled. Bedding recovered from manure allows a waste material to be re-used in a valuable way, avoiding the potential environmental impacts that it could have otherwise caused. This creates a closed-loop, sustainable solution to livestock bedding and manure management.
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