A Wisconsin dairy farm has added a new revenue stream to the operation thanks in part to a USDA program.
J.J. Pagel with the Dairy Dreams farm near Casco, Wisconsin tells Brownfield they were able to use a grant from USDA’s Fertilizer Production Expansion Program, or FPIP, to extract more from their dairy manure. “It gives us the ability to use our nutrient recovery program and we create three products. We have a phosphorus product, a nitrogen product, and then we end up with a third, clean water at the end.”
Pagel says the manure from their approximately 2,950 cows goes through a digester, creating natural gas that is made available for commercial trucks. After that, he says the manure still has additional uses.
