Dive Brief:

• Double Eagle Dairy, a farm located in Gratiot County, MI, will install a manure treatment system capable of recycling the waste into clean water and extracting nutrients from the manure.
• The manure recycling system was created by Livestock Water Recycling, which focuses on anaerobic digester operations and manure treatment technologies.
• The system creates zero waste: Water is used for crop irrigation, cleaning and for cattle, while the nutrients can be sold for profit or used for fertilizer on the land.

Dive Insight:

The Double Eagle Dairy is one of the initial dairies to install the system. The farm already incorporates environmentally-friendly solutions, such as using a sand-separation technology that recycles sand into livestock bedding.