An environmentally sustainable cattle facility sounds intriguing, but how would it work?
Bion’s proposed sustainable cattle facility for Oswego County in upstate New York will employ a patented and demonstrated comprehensive waste treatment technology that separates livestock waste into its parts, uses some as fuel, while turning the vast majority of its nutrients into either benign N2 gas (the major constituent of the air we breathe) or into a non-soluble form of nitrogen and phosphorus that is significantly less subject to leaching from farm fields to both surface and ground water than the manure being treated. It also reduces odor and air emissions, including ammonia (which quickly falls out of the air and pollutes water and soil), hydrogen sulfide, Volatile Organic Compounds, and methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. This waste treatment system has been proven on a commercial dairy in Texas and is now about to be installed on a major dairy in Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County.
