Re: Hog farm in North Dakota

Donna Fezler (gcr@rhealiving.com)
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 16:07:29 -0500

Hi,

I am in Illinois and wondering why biodigesters are not being used for hog
manure? These large hog farms are dreadful things, reeking for miles. Is
it the issue of cost? From what I have read it seems like an excellent
solution to a multitude of problems with these farms.

Donna Fezler
Jacksonville IL
-----Original Message-----
From: Victoria Mundy <toria@pop.uky.edu>
To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu <sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu>
Date: Friday, October 02, 1998 12:33 PM
Subject: Hog farm in North Dakota

>Hello everyone,
>
>At the 1998 IFFS conference in Northampton, MA, we had the privilege of
>hearing Sarah Vogel speak about some of the work she is doing to fight
>large hog operations in North Dakota.
>
>She mentioned that at least one of the manure lagoons had been built with a
>sandy clay liner, rather than a clay liner. The soils teacher here is
>interested in using this fiasco as an example in his class, and I am
>delighted! That he's using it as an example, not that it happened. I
>promised I'd try to find particulars for him.
>
>But I don't know quite where in ND this happened, when it happened except
>some time in the last two years, or who was responsible! An internet
>search didn't turn up anything too helpful. Does anyone know anything
>about this? Please reply to me privately and if there's interest, I'll
>post a summary.
>
>Thank you so much,
>Victoria Mundy
>Univ. of Kentucky
>
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