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Methane to Electricity
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Below is a guest post from Gene McCluer, OSU Extension Hardin County Extension Educator: As a source of renewable energy, there is much interest in converting manure into methane and the methane into electricity. There are two farms with anaerobic digesters which are currently generating electricity in Ohio. Both farms are selling the power [...]
- alternative energy
- anaerobic
- anaerobic digesters
- biogas
- biogas electricity
- greenhouse gases
- Livestock
- manure
- methane
- methane to electricity
- methane to energy
- renewable energy
- technology
Excellent Article on the Future of Agriculture
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Purdue released an outstanding paper on the future of agriculture. The article is written with emphasis on Indiana agriculture, but it pertains to agricutlure as an industry in the U.S. I wholly agree with everthing written and have pulled out some key points from the article. On risk: The business climate and financial outlook for crop agriculture [...]
Nitrogen Fertilizer Options and Technologies
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Below is an article I wrote for the August 24, 2008 Lima News. The financial cost of fertilizer used in agriculture is intimately linked to the oil market. As the cost of a barrel of oil rises, so do agricultural fertilizer prices. One of the most basic sources of fertilizer is ammonium nitrogen, also [...]
Wind Lease Contracts for Landowners
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In Van Wert County, Ohio we have several Wind Energy Companies shopping landowners for acres. I have seen lease and payment arrangement terms for two of these wind energy companies. I won’t give you specific details of each lease, but I’ll share some commonalities. Frankly, the leases and terms are similar for [...]
- alternative energy
- technology
- wind farm
- wind farm payments
- wind farms
- wind lease contracts
- wind turbine
- wind turbines