Civil Eats

AUGUST 28, 2023

The waste grease, collected from a local pizzeria, a Mexican restaurant, and a pub, will be mixed with manure in the dairy farm’s anerobic co-digester and converted into renewable energy. Methane gas digesters are used by dairy farms to convert manure into energy and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Manure slurry is a valuable but difficult resource to manage on dairy farms. Slurry pits must be emptied to make room for the never-ending stream of manure. Manure is often not a top priority for most dairies and handling may have to wait until seasonal fieldwork is completed. This causes the soil microbiology to go dormant.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Because of the island’s isolation and lack of motor vehicles, moving waste to the mainland is logistically and financially taxing, explained Allen Burt, director of the Mackinac Department of Public Works (DPW). Workers collect horse manure by bike along the streets of downtown Mackinac Island.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

And while each of those uses could provide revenue potential for mushroom farms, the expanding piles of spent substrate also represent a mounting logistical challenge. “If As the farm’s output quickly grew, from 20 pounds of mushrooms a week to around 300, the leftover material quickly became a logistical problem to be solved. “In

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 7, 2021

Allan Savory through Holistic Management began taking pictures of remarkable recoveries when animals at high density for a short period of time (one day) heavily impacted a spot with hooves and manure. But, like others, he convened them at hotel conference centers where food, logistics, and setting were always an issue.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

MAY 10, 2023

This covers water saving techniques, grazing management techniques, and manure management techniques, to name a few. A good portion of the livestock policy handbook, and probably the most important, discusses state and federal rules that are one of the most crucial features to a cattle farm’s logistics.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, failed shipping logistics forced farmers to dump millions of gallons of milk. Additionally, because cows spread manure uniformly across the paddocks, the waste enriches the soil and emits far less methane than it would decomposing in a collection pool.

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