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2013 Environmental Stewards: Blue Mountain Farms Anaerobic Digester

2014-01-31 21:26:00| National Hog Farmer

LimelightPlayerUtil.initEmbed("limelight_player_726332"); Blue Mountain Farms, owned by Circle Four Farms, houses 21,000 feeder to finish animals and ships about 55,000 animals from farm to market each year. The farm uses anaerobic digesters to create methane gas, which is sold to the local power company. Flushed from the under-barn pits to the digesters, the manure creates enough power from the methane gas to power 3,000 homes. read more

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