Dirt almost always equates to chicken manure and, if the eggs are produced in a free-range system, other raw agricultural commodities that hens might pick up from roaming freely.
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We feed them animal waste, and they convert it from manure to digested effluent, eating the carbohydrates and producing biogas that contains methane.
There is a story that a friend of Bess Truman once asked her why she did not get her husband, Harry, to stop saying manure so frequently.
Many new initiatives in the bill fund research and programs for farm-based biofuels, including everything from making methane out of cow manure to planting switchgrass — and especially, growing corn to make ethanol, which has been promoted as a means toward energy independence.
Another approach is to try to displace O157:H7 in farm animals, whose manure can be spread to nearby farmland.
In this case, AgCert installs systems to collect methane from rotting pig manure in farms in Mexico, Chile and Brazil, then burns it off or uses it to generate electricity.
The junior optimist was brought to a room filled with manure.
Other animals in the pipeline include livestock with leaner muscle mass and improved use of dietary phosphorous to lessen the environmental effects of manure.
For many farmers, the goodness of manure could not be reduced to a white powder.
He could see a trail through the grass where horses had been led to the stream to drink and there was the fresh manure of several horses.
It results from the 1.6 billion people that do not have any access to electricity whatsoever, the 2.4 billion that have almost no access to electricity and still burn wood and manure as their main source of energy, and the 3 billion new people that will be born by mid-century who will need electricity.
"No border agent wants to unload all those horses, shovel out that manure, " he says.
When it comes to revealing true costs, many operators seem to treat their investors like mushrooms, feeding them manure and keeping them in the dark.
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Experts have come up with all sorts of hypothetical ways the E. coli could have gotten into the spinach, from manure that wasn't properly composted to runoff from cattle farms to contaminated irrigation water.
In a modern animal-raising facility, we take the manure from those animals and generate enough biogas to fuel an engine generator that produces enough energy for the entire site.
Neither a break crop of legumes, nor manure was the answer, since both demanded precious acres to produce.
Son is a third generation ethnic Korean who, according to the bio sketch, grew up amid the stench of pig manure and bootlegged sake in a Korean village in Saga prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu.
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