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Dairies use large amounts of water for cleaning, generating high strength effluents due to loss of product into the effluent. Many dairies could achieve significant cost savings by taking action to reduce their water use, effluent generation and product loss to effluent. Adobe Acrobat PDF Format
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The objectives of this project were to assess the farm management systems of three certified organic dairy farms, four transitional dairy farms, and one conventional dairy farm, as well as facilitate the exchange of information from farmer-to-farmer and farmer-to-agricultural professional, particula…
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The purpose of this guide is to assist in the identification of energy efficiency improvements within dairy processing plants, and also to assist in the development and achievement of voluntary sector energy efficiency targets, under the auspices of the Canadian Industry Program for Energy Conservat…
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The Regional Center for Sustainable Dairy Farming included a comprehensive comparison of two systems of dairy production: one based on intensively managed pasture, the other based on row crops and conventional confinement housing and feeding. When all factors were considered, pasture-based systems …
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This guide identifies and promotes opportunities for conserving energy and water, as well as reducing waste, in the dairy processing sector. This guide offers a series of generic process descriptions and checklists of improvement opportunities specific to each of six major processes used in dairy p…
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This three-year project helped farmers expand the use of perennial grasses by developing and validating best management practices for perennial grasses on Northeast dairy farms. Project activities contributed to increased awareness of grass as a high quality dairy feed and as a nutrient management …
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This guide provides technical, step-by-step guidance for the development, implementation and continual monitoring of facility-specific pollution prevention plans for dairy processing operations. The guide targets operations in the Lower Fraser Basin in particular. Adobe Acrobat PDF format Environm…
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The objectives of this project were to work with farmers to identify emerging information and technology needs for nutrient management on dairy farms; evaluate available on-farm nutrient management technologies by gathering data from at least 20 sites; and evaluate two alternative nutrient managemen…
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This fact sheet provides quick tips and benefits (including a cost-benefit example) for water conservation in dairy processing plants. Publication number: CD-21
Publication date: March 1996 Roy E. Carawan North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service
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Alternative outlets for animal waste disposal and recycling must be developed to reduce the waste stream and result in sustainable use of nutrients. The objectives of this project were to determine nutrient removal from the waste stream via energy production and nutrient fate when land-applied to s…
