A key piece of technology important to the success of biogas digesters in Europe is now available in Canada. Advance Tank Production Ltd., has built a rapid loading and unloading tanker that makes moving manure around quicker and more efficient. Why it matters: Biogas digester numbers are growing in Ontario, but some infrastructure still isn’t […] Read more
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Biogas slurry trailer rapidly loads and unloads
Manure can be moved to a digester and digestate returned to a farm more efficiently
Dutch farmer separates nitrogen from manure to fertilize crops
Process reduces manure hauling, produces usable heat and electricity for Dutch farm
Ton Groot Roessink milks about 200 cows near Baak, using robots, automated feeding and automated manure cleaning. Manure from the farm is put through a biogas digester. The methane is burned to produce electricity and heat for the farm.
Editorial: A big carrot in one hand, nothing in the other
It’s rarely a great idea to compare yourself to someone else. You can end up dissatisfied with something about yourself or about what they have and you don’t. Psychologists have a name for this behavior. It’s called social comparison. The theory suggests that people value their own personal and social worth by assessing how they […] Read more
How biogas can fit with a sustainable agriculture strategy
The potential is huge, but policies must make sense
The landscape for renewable natural gas (RNG) production on Ontario farms is getting bigger, but the provincial and federal governments must stop thinking of the fuel in the same way as they do for natural gas derived from fossil fuels. That was the take-home message from a group of panelists representing the agriculture sector at […] Read more
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