Manure becomes pollutant as its volume grows unmanageable except at Huls Dairy in Corvallis, Montana – Montana Ambassadors 2010 Entrepreneurs of the Year

Nearly 40 years after the first Earth Day, this is irony: The United States has reduced the manmade pollutants that left its waterways dead, discolored and occasionally flammable.

But now, it has managed to smother the same waters with the most natural stuff in the world.

Animal manure, a byproduct as old as agriculture, has become an unlikely modern pollution problem, scientists and environmentalists say. The country simply has more dung than it can handle: Crowded together at a new breed of megafarms, livestock produce three times as much waste as people, more than can be recycled as fertilizer for nearby fields.

By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/28/AR2010022803978.html?wprss=rss_business

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Greening up the dairy. Huls Farm in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana gets a $1.2MM methane digester http://matr.net/article-32492.html

Montana’s Recovering Economy: Where Do We Go From Here? 2010 Montana Ambassadors Annual Meeting and Conference Summary http://matr.net/article-38230.html

The NRCS has produced an informatve video http://www.hulsdairy.com/digester/Huls_Web.wmv about the Huls Dairy operation.

Cow-fed methane / Corvallis, Montana dairy installs manure digesters http://matr.net/article-26460.html

High-tech herd- Huls Dairy modernizes with computer chips, couches for cows http://matr.net/article-7185.html

Montana State University study looks at turning manure into revenues http://matr.net/article-36470.html

Montana’s Recovering Economy: Where Do We Go From Here? 2010 Montana Ambassadors Annual Meeting and Conference Summary http://matr.net/article-38230.html