Converting cow manure into methane biogas is said to be environmentally friendly, instead of allowing manure to decompose and create global warming gases.
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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"No need to feel like a stinker when you give manure to a loved one, " says Oxfam America on its website.
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Lawyers for Perdue, which owned the chickens, and the Hudson family said chicken manure wasn't getting out in great enough amounts to pollute, and farmer Alan Hudson testified that he took steps to avoid pollution and to keep the manure in chicken houses.
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.
Patrick being transported downtown on a manure spreader, were to wrap up with a parade Saturday.
Other animals in the pipeline include livestock with leaner muscle mass and improved use of dietary phosphorous to lessen the environmental effects of manure.
In places where thousands of pigs are reared in so called factory farms, the run off from the manure has been known to contaminate water tables.
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.
The federal lawsuit was filed in 2010, after representatives from Waterkeeper flew over the farm and identified what they initially believed to be a large uncovered pile of chicken manure.
"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.
Rachel Wyatt, of the MCS, said farmers must "look at land management practices, put up more fences to keep cattle out of rivers and change patterns of manure spreading".
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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.
"This phosphorous, when the manure is applied as fertiliser, actually is too high to be utilised by the crops, " he said.
Another case involved three horses found living in piles of manure in derelict stables with hooves which had been allowed to grow so long they curled like rams' horns.
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.
No one ever accused Carl Rosen of not stopping to smell the roses, or, in his case, the horse manure.
Efforts to eliminate waterway dead zones and algal blooms nationwide have focused on pollution from manure.
The biomass power station would burn rubbish, animal manure, woodchips, seaweed, corn stalks and other wastes, to heat water to create steam to turn turbines to produce around 300 megawatts of electricity.
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