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Poultry Farm Pioneers Low-Rate Composting

Tony Pastore, Sr. started Park Farms in Canton, Ohio decades ago to process and market chickens. In 1989, it was decided that instead of buying chickens from other producers, a new venture would be launched to raise chickens directly for Park Farms. This led to the formation of A & J Farms, a 1,900-acre operation that contains 14 separately operating chicken farms. Each sub-farm has up to ten ...

Jan. 1, 1999

By BioCycle Magazine

animal feed pellet machine for home use and poultry farm to make best pelleted feed

the advantages of this animal feed pellet machine are nice looking in shape, simple in structure, easy in operation and service, safe in solidity, small in volume. and light in weight etc. No special training needed and operation available through manual,The pellet mill accepts the dry ...

Aug. 21, 2014

By Victor Pellet Mill

Dutch Farmers Find It Pays To Manage Poultry Manure

Poultry farmers in Holland face challenges similar to their North American counterparts in dealing with manure from concentrated operations where there is insufficient cropland for application. This creates a need for exporting manure from the producing farm to users in other places. Poultry operations in Holland differ from most North American poultry farms in that most are not vertically ...

Jan. 1, 1999

By BioCycle Magazine

Certified Organic Farm Relies on Compost

Located 50 miles northwest of Dayton, Ohio, the owners of Fresh Aire Farms grow crops on over 250 acres of farmland, relying on high quality compost as a soil conditioner and nutrient amendment. Dan and Michelle Young started composting seven years ago to reduce the amount of chemical inputs they had to buy. “We are a certified organic farm incorporating sound cropping principles,” says Dan ...

Jan. 1, 1999

By BioCycle Magazine

How green was my Vertical Farm?

By 2050, 80% of the earth’s population will live in cities and 3 billion more people will need to be fed. The simple fact is we are running out of available land to grow enough food to feed them. If we can’t grow our cities outward to find more arable land, the only solution is to grow them upwards. This may change the way we design cities forever.The problem is real and immediate. Even by most ...

Jul. 23, 2008

By GLOBE Foundation

COOL: A salute to consumers in the International Year of Family Farming

This month we are celebrating one particular aspect of the International Year of Family Farming: the consumer. In order to be successful, family farmers must always have consumers and their needs in mind, which is why NFU has been a long-time champion of Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) for meat, poultry and seafood. More than 90 percent of consumers want to know the origin of their food, and ...

Jan. 17, 2014

By National Farmers Union

Phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy transect study of poultry operations on the Delmarva peninsula

Nonpoint source phosphorus (P) pollution into the Chesapeake Bay watershed from poultry operations contributes to the algal blooms, hypoxia, anoxia, and fish kill events that occur there most years. A major source of soluble, bioavailable P species is poultry litter, which is used as a crop fertilizer on fields adjacent to the tributaries of the Bay. A potentially significant source of ...

Jan. 13, 2009

By Soil Science Society of America

Cost-Benefit Analyses: Exploring the Economics of On-Farm Composting

When exploring the merits of on-farm composting, the question most often raised is: What are the economics? How do the savings or revenues from on-farm composting compare to the costs? Of course, the answer is the ever present “it depends.” Expenses, resources, revenue opportunities, environmental constraints and circumstances vary greatly from one farm to the next. Most people would agree that ...

Jan. 1, 2001

By BioCycle Magazine

Analysis of energy and exergy utilisation of Jordan's agricultural sector

This paper presents detailed analysis of energy and exergy utilisation in the agricultural sector of Jordan, by considering the sectoral energy and exergy flows through the main end uses of sub-sectors. Artesian water wells, agricultural machinery, poultry and cattle farms consumed about 57.0, 12.3, 27.3 and 3.4%, respectively, of the total energy used by the agricultural sector in the year 2004. ...

Jun. 23, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Chicken waste could produce unexpected energy windfalls in Ukraine

Ukrainians soon could enjoy a new windfall of electricity and heat from an unexpected source – chickens. In some unusual news, the Swiss company Alter Energy Group AG is assessing Ukrainian poultry farm sites to implement a sophisticated waste to energy process. The process takes chicken and poultry manure and turns it into clean, environmentally safe, industrial scale electricity and heat. This ...

Aug. 24, 2009

By Foundation for the Development of Environmental and Energy Markets

Managing core competences to create value for customers

This article investigates the role of company's core competences in increasing product value for customers. The conceptual model included the steps of managing a company's core competences confirms that developing core competences makes company's products more valuable for its customers and thus provides its competitiveness in the global market. Nowadays Russian poultry farming enterprises are ...

Nov. 29, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Manure Compost A New Cash Crop

A growing number of livestock producers are discovering manure compost as a new cash crop. When Mark Meyer refers to the “magic” at New Day Farms, he isn’t referring to the liquid egg products generated by more than 2.5 million laying hens. Rather, Meyer, the environmental manager at the Ohio facility, is talking about the ...

Aug. 9, 2010

By Security Shredding & Storage News

Talking turkey: How bird flu outbreaks are playing out

A deadly strain of bird flu has reached the Midwest, killing or requiring hundreds of thousands of turkeys to be euthanized. Some questions and answers about the outbreak: WHAT KIND OF FLU IS THIS, EXACTLY? H5N2 is a highly contagious virus that kills commercial poultry quickly once it gets into a barn. It can spread through an infected bird's droppings or nasal discharges - yes, ...

Apr. 8, 2015

By Associated Press

Wild birds not the source of Avian Influenza in Korea

The recent outbreak of the H5N8 strain of Avian Influenza is causing many victims amongst poultry and wild birds in the Republic of Korea. The Scientific Task Force on Avian Influenza and Wild Birds has issued a statement on this outbreak saying that there is currently no evidence that wild birds are the source of this virus. Instead the focus of disease control actions must be on the domestic ...

Jan. 29, 2014

By Wetlands International

Sadia swine manure lagoon treatment case study

The Problem SADIA, a major integrated hog producer located in the Santa Catarina province of Brazil requested permission to conduct a test to determine the effectiveness of Nordevco Associates’ technology to improve conditions in their manure storage lagoon at a facility located in Concordia. Nordevco’s solution was applied by the producer and all testing and analyses were ...

Nov. 12, 2013

By Nordevco Associates Ltd.

Case study - DACS` ventilation gives excellent hock and podo scores

Jamie Curston from Hooks Drove, Cambridgeshire, England, manages a 500,000 + bird farm equipped with a complete climate solution from DACS. The eight houses were commissioned in October 2014 and have been running flawlessly ever since. Jamie is an experienced manager who has been working in the poultry business for the last 12 years. For the first time on a farm equipped with a ventilation ...

Sep. 21, 2016

By DACS A/S

Rising Meat Consumption Takes Big Bite out of Grain Harvest

http://www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2011/highlights22 World consumption of animal protein is everywhere on the rise. Meat consumption increased from 44 million tons in 1950 to 284 million tons in 2009, more than doubling annual consumption per person to over 90 pounds. The rise in consumption of milk and eggs is equally dramatic. Wherever incomes rise, so does meat consumption. ...

Nov. 22, 2011

By Earth Policy Institute

Overfishing Threatens Critical Link in the Food Chain

The fish near the bottom of the aquatic food chain are often overlooked, but they are vital to healthy oceans and estuaries. Collectively known as forage fish, these species—including sardines, anchovies, herrings, and shrimp-like crustaceans called krill—feed on plankton and become food themselves for larger fish, seabirds, and marine mammals. Historically, people have eaten ...

Jan. 30, 2013

By Earth Policy Institute

Effect of maturation of Grease trap compost on plant growth

Although it is known that immature composts can depress plant growth, few studies have quantified this effect in real-world scenarios with field-grown crops. Glasshouse and field trials were used to investigate the effect of maturation of grease trap compost (GTC) on plant growth. Grease trap waste was composted for 7-14 d in an in-vessel reactor with shredded green waste, sawdust and chicken ...

Jun. 29, 2009

By BioCycle Magazine

CASE STUDY: A SOLUTION FOR THE TREATMENT OF WASTEWATER FROM SMALL AND MEDIUM- SIZE FOOD PROCESSING COMPANIES: The Typical Example of Wastewater from Wineries

The Problem Poultry and pork farms, dairy industries, wineries, fruit processing firms are sources of high strength wastewater. The treatment of wastewater produced by small and medium - size food processing companies not connected to municipal plants, is often a source of concerns for both ...

Jan. 1, 2004

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