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Process reduces manure odor, produces fertilizer, clean water
A presenter at the Ag Innovation Showcase has developed a way to take much of the smell out of manure leaving a by-product of fertilizer and clean water. Livestock Water Recycling (LWR) co-founder Karen Schuett tells Brownfield Ag News the machinery she sells separates water out dairy and pig manure.
“The odor is drastically reduced,” Schuett told Brownfield at the Showcase.
The leftover water is clean – clean enough to drink – leaving an almost dry fertilizer.
“You can also then use that as a precision nutrient application to grow your crops and increase the feed crop that you are producing by, on our farms, three to five times,” she said.
Some farmers market the processed manure in bags or bulk. Others apply to their own fields. The machines to process manure start at about $200,000, and Schuett says they can be purchased or leased. She says farm manure can also be processed on a fee-for-service basis.
Schuett, whose company, LWR, is based in Calgary, Alberta, was at the Showcase in St. Louis pitching to potential investors.
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