A Dairy Farm Where Milk and Manure Pay the Bills
Hi, Cow Fans
The cows at the Audet family’s Blue Spruce Farm make nearly 9,000 gallons of milk a day—and about 35,000 gallons of manure.
It’s long been the milk that pays, but now the Audets have figured out how to make the manure pay as well. They’re using it—actually, the methane that comes from it—to generate electricity.
Read the rest here:
http://www.livescience.com/environment/ap_060630_manure.html
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Leon the Milkman
Here is an article with some financial figures as well: Economics of producing methane gas from cow manure to generate onfarm electricity (University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service. Bulletin) (University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service. Bulletin)
Low-fat dairy helps blood pressure
A new study suggests that milk and other dairy products, especially low-fat varieties, can help reduce blood pressure. Those who ate the most dairy cut the risk of high-blood pressure by 54 percent, according to the research published in the journal Hypertension.
Read the rest at:
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/features_healthblog/2006/06/lowfat_dairy_he.html
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Leon the Milkman
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Dairy farm finds energy source right under its nose
Hi, Dairy Farmers
Three years ago Lebanon’s biggest dairy farm, LibanLait, was confronting two seemingly unrelated problems: the rising cost of generating enough power to operate the dairy plant, and how to dispose of the approximately 160,000 pounds of cow manure that accumulated daily.
Read how they solved this dairy problem:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=3&article_id=73546
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Leon the Milkman
Leon the Milkman joins www.iblog.co.za
Hi, Milk fans
South Africa has their owns blognetwork site on, and I joined it today.
Their will be duplication, but you can check it out at www.milkman.iblog.co.za
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Fonterra still fifth biggest dairy multinational
The top international dairy firms – including New Zealand’s Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd – have become even larger due to continued acquisitions, according to a new industry report.
Read the rest at the following link:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3713248a3600,00.html
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Leon the Milkman
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Are reports of milk products’ health benefits just hype?
Read the rest here:
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060625/LIFE10/606250305/1006/LIFE
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Leon the Milkman
Dairy farmers, churches partner to fight hunger
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Five dairy farms in Cayuga County (Aurora Ridge Dairy, Willet Dairy, Sunnyside Farm, Scipio Springs Dairy and Oakwood Farms) and three Ithaca area churches created a local partnership, dubbed “Adopt a Cow,†to raise funds to rebuild cattle herds in Mozambique.
Read the rest by clicking the following link:
http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060624/NEWS01/606240318/1002/NEWS01
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Leon the Milkman
Fonterra to offer free bone density scans
Fonterra says it will offer New Zealand and Australian women free bone health scans as part of a promotion for its Anlene milks and yoghurts.
These guys are going all-out to prove the health benefits of dairy. Read the rest at :
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3710199a3600,00.html
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Leon the Milkman
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