Manure

Dairyman Skip Hardie from the Finger Lakes region of New York has held an interest in methane digesters for quite sometime. He owns and operates Hardie Farms, along with his two partners, Steve Palladino and John Fleming.

Johne’s disease is a persistent and debilitating bacterial disease that affects the intestines of ruminant animals.

Just before World Dairy Expo, I had the pleasure of attending the Energy Production from Anaerobic Digestion of Dairy Manure short course in Madison, Wisconsin.

EPA finalizes the nation’s first greenhouse gas reporting system
On January 1, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will, for the first time, require large emitters of heat-trapping emissions to begin collecting greenhouse gas (GHG) data under a new reporting system.

As sawdust supplies in the U.S. grew tighter, dairymen found it to be an expensive, and sometimes non-existent, bedding material.

Three years ago, Harry Faber was running low on sawdust bedding for his 250 milking cows, but when he called for more he was told more could not be received.