January 2012
Manure Power
By Sally Colby
Although the use of biogas from an on-farm methane digester is no longer considered breakthrough technology, installing a digester to convert dairy, hog or poultry waste to useable energy is still a pricey proposition. Most digesters are on large farms, and the farm owner's investment to install and get systems up and running is sizeable. However, it's a different story in Europe.
Some European villages, including Jühnde in the northern German state of Saxony, have built "community," or centralized, digesters. Rather than running on inputs from a single-farm, centralized ...
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What's New in Agronomic Weed Control? with Penn State's Cooperative Extension.
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Pesticide Spill Management with Bill Ridon of Penn State's Cooperative Extension.
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Soybean Update with Penn State's Cooperative Extension.
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The Pennsylvania Agricultural Land Preservation Board today voted to preserve 2,331 additional acres on 21 farms in 17 counties through the state's nationally recognized farmland preservation program.
The newly preserved farms are located in Adams, Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Columbia, Crawford, Dauphin, Erie, Franklin, Lebanon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northumberland, Perry, Washington, Wayne and Westmoreland
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