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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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2013 Environmental Stewards: Krikke Pork Manure Fertilizer
2014-01-31 21:10:00| National Hog Farmer
LimelightPlayerUtil.initEmbed("limelight_player_946088"); Krikke Pork, Greenwich, Ohio, is a 2013 Envinronmental Steward Award winner. "Being good stewards of the land is a requirement. Our goal is to leave the land in better shape than when we found it," says Howard Krikke. The farm raises 10,000 wean to finish hogs each year, and uses the manure to fertilize their crops. The tanks under the barn hold a years worth of manure. read more
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2013 Environmental Stewards: Bacon Hill Anaerobic Digester
2014-01-31 18:42:00| National Hog Farmer
LimelightPlayerUtil.initEmbed("limelight_player_984552"); The Bacon Hill farm in Dodge, Neb., uses anaerobic digesters to get rid of odor and produce enough methane gas to power the entire farm. The farm uses about 20% of the energy created. The rest is sold to the local power company, and is enough energy to power about 53 homes each year. read more
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2013 Environmental Stewards: Russell Brothers Wind Power
2014-01-31 18:17:00| National Hog Farmer
LimelightPlayerUtil.initEmbed("limelight_player_689958"); The Russell Brothers, Monticello, Iowa, have been farming in the county since the Civil War and produce 14,000 wean to finish pigs each year. The farm built a wind turbine that provides 60-80% of the farms total electrical energy needs each year. read more
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Environmental Stewards Nominations Due March 31
2014-01-03 21:38:00| National Hog Farmer
By Lora Berg Application and nomination forms for the 2014 Environmental Stewards of the Pork Industry awards are now available. Each year, National Hog Farmer magazine and Pork Checkoff co-sponsor this national recognition program to recognize pork producers ongoing commitment to protect and enhance the air, water and land in the proximity of their pork production farms. read more
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