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EPA Orders Kevin Basham farm to stop discharging pollutants into Louisiana waters
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a cease and desist administrative order to the Kevin Basham Farm in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, for unauthorized discharges of chicken litter into a tributary of the Dugdemona River. The Kevin Basham Farm chicken broiler facility is a concentrated animal feeding operation located approximately five miles east of Arcadia on the south side of ...
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EPA orders Louisiana poultry farms to stop discharging
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued cease and desist administrative orders to two chicken broiler facilities in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, for discharging chicken litter into a tributary of the Dugdemona River. The Mike Reeves 1 and Beaver Creek Farm chicken broiler facilities are concentrated animal feeding operations located approximately four miles east of Arcadia on the ...
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EPA orders foster poultry farms to stop discharging pollutants into Louisiana waters
On January 26, 2012, the EPA inspected the hatchery and found unauthorized discharges of pollutants from its process wastewater lagoon to an unnamed tributary of Leatherman Creek. Leatherman Creek drains into Black Creek Bayou and it in turn drains into the Red River. “A chicken hatchery should be raising chickens not pollution levels in nearby rivers,” said EPA Regional ...
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GEC Organics Delivers First Large Sale of Proprietary Compost Soil Amendment
Global Ecology Corporation (GEC) (OTCQB: GLEC) (PINKSHEETS: GLEC) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, GEC Organics, has delivered the first truck loads of its proprietary compost soil amendment, OSA1000?. Peter Ubaldi, President of GEC, said, "Our strategy has been to target both the retail market with bagged product, which has successfully begun, and to identify large local ...
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Alabama Government Officials Praise Global Ecology for Creating New Jobs at Its New Soil Amendment Facility
Global Ecology Corporation (OTCQB: GLEC) (PINKSHEETS: GLEC) has received the warm endorsement of city, state and county officials for its investment in a new soil amendment business in Castleberry Alabama that is creating new jobs for the region. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, GEC Organics Corp., the company has made a substantial investment in this project and is currently producing a ...
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USDA Spends $180 Million for Rural Water, Wastewater Upgrades
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) – The federal government is spending nearly $180 million to fund 61 new rural water and wastewater community systems in 29 states, Agriculture Under Secretary Thomas Dorr announced Monday. 'These projects will build and improve rural water and sewage systems, and rural communities will benefit through cleaner water, recreation and wildlife resources,' Dorr said. 'USDA is ...
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A Canadian winter fairy tale
If the Canadian winter doesn‘t throw a spanner into our plans our engineers are confident that the 335 kW plant will be ready for commissioning at the end of January. “Till now we consider grape pomace, grass silage, chicken dung and glycerine as input materials, but we already send an application for fermenting leftovers like oils and drippings.“ explains Jan- Hendrik Thesing, project and ...
By Triangle Ltd
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Jones-Hamilton Announces PAACO Sponsorship
Jones-Hamilton Agricultural Division has become a training level sponsor of the Professional Animal Auditor Certification Organization (PAACO) for 2022 – 2023. Support of the PAACO Poultry Welfare Auditor Training program is another way Jones-Hamilton demonstrates a commitment to animal welfare and sustainability in poultry production. “Not only ...
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Bird flu confirmed in commercially-farmed birds in the Netherlands
On the night of Friday 25 November 2016, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR) confirmed an outbreak of H5 avian influenza (bird flu) on a duck farm in Biddinghuizen (municipality of Dronten). The birds on this farm, at three other locations belonging to the same concern in Hierden and one location in Ermelo, were humanely destroyed as a preventive measure. Some 180,000 ducks were culled. ...
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USPOULTRY Announces Updated Ergonomics in the Poultry & Egg Industry – Supervisor Training Program
Preventing cumulative trauma injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis, is a critical part of every poultry and egg plant safety program. An effective ergonomics program can assist in reducing both the frequency and severity of these types of injuries. The goal of ergonomics is to 'fit the job to the person,' rather than making the person fit the job, to ensure that the work ...
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EU rule changes threaten poultry and horticulture sectors
Small traditional poultry producers and growers who use glasshouses could find their businesses under threat from EU rules lumping their businesses into the same pollution control bracket as power stations, the NFU warned today. The new proposed revisions to the IPPC include:• Reducing the current IPPC thresholds from 40,000 to 30,000 for laying hens, 24,000 for ducks and 11,500 for turkeys. ...
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Manure matters! How can you turn poultry manure into value? Poul-AR produces fertilizer and sustainable energy from poultry waste
Colsen has developed a new technology to valorize poultry manure. Until now poultry manure is considered a waste stream with a considerable cost, Poul-AR® now represents an important valorization step, by which the manure will generate nutrients and energy. This is directly associated with considerable operational benefits and thus represents a large added value for the poultry sector. In ...
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Winter Litter Management: Make the Most of Time Between Flocks
Litter moisture is one of the most important, if not the most important, litter management parameters at all times of the year. Proper litter moisture is critical to reducing: ammonia formation bacterial growth and litter caking The result is an environment better for maintaining paw quality and bird health. Maintaining low litter moisture is even more critical in cold winter months when ...
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Grand Opening for the first Ductor Add-On Plant
The world’s first enhanced biogas production plant with Ductor Add-On technology will open in late September 2016 in Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany. Please join us to celebrate this groundbreaking moment! Ductor fermentation technology helps to improve the business economics of biogas plants that have long suffered from significant operational costs. The advantages for existing and new ...
By Ductor Corp.
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Understanding phosphorus in soils is vital to proper management
Phosphorus is one of the key nutrients that can cause algal blooms and related water quality problems in lakes, rivers, and estuaries worldwide. Phosphorus entering waters originates from a variety of sources. Agricultural land receiving long term applications of organic by-products such as animal manure is one of the major contributors. Such soils often become enriched with P, leading to ...
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Ductor is opening a groundbreaking biotech plant in Haren, Germany
Ductor Corporation is announcing today that it will reach the goal of implementing its first commercial fermentation technology in Germany this autumn. The first implementation will be an application for the biogas producer in order to significantly improve the economics of a biogas plant via replacing the expensive maize silage with inexpensive poultry manure. As of September 2016, this biogas ...
By Ductor Corp.
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2022 New Arrival: the Cost-Effective Poultry Lighting System you can`t Miss!
According to a report, the global LED lighting market in the poultry farming sector is predicted to reach a spike by hitting an enormous target of over $505.0 million by the end of 2025. These figures showcase that modern people and businessmen prefer professional tools and systems to boost the production of animal husbandry. With the rising awareness of LED lighting in poultry, the poultry ...
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Ammonia emissions detected upwind from an intensive poultry farm
High levels of ammonia were observed at a Natura 2000 site nearly three kilometres upwind from an intensive poultry farm in a recent study. While downwind effects of ammonia emissions are to be expected, this study suggests that ammonia emissions could be a significant source of nitrogen pollution even upwind from the source. Intensive livestock operations, such as poultry farms, are significant ...
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Compact Plant (Under 100 kW) Goes Into Operation; Another Contract Signed
EnviTec Biogas scores with new compact plants concept in Italy and Germany Lohne, 10 November 2014 – Small, compact and economical – these are the three factors with which EnviTec Biogas is currently scoring big in Italy. With the recently signed contract for the construction of a 99kW EnviFarm compact plant, the biogas all-rounder from Lower Saxony is once again looking to replicate ...
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M&C Anderson Pullets Recognized for Environmental Excellence by USPOULTRY
M&C Anderson Pullets ofSioux Rapids, Iowa,was one of sixfarms across the United States to receive U.S. Poultry & Egg Association’sFamily Farm Environmental Excellence Award during the 2020International Production & Processing Expoin Atlanta. U.S. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY) sponsors the annual awards in recognition of exemplary environmental stewardship by family ...
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