Composting manure on a large scale for farmers, meat packing companies.
An Indiana company is working with Brown County, Wisconsin, to create a commercial composting system that is capable of handling large amounts of cow manure. Dealing with cow manure is a big issue for dairy farmers and meat packing plants because of the large amounts generated.
“As you increase urban development and you increase the cow numbers, you are going to run out of land for (spreading) livestock waste, or you end up taking it so far that it is cost-prohibitive to move it,” said Brad Holtz, an agronomist with the Brown County Land Conservation Department.
The facility is designed to give dairy farmers and other biowaste generators, such as packing plants, an alternative to land spreading.
