Utilizing REAP
Utilizing REAP. I’m Greg Martin as Line On Agriculture presents the Harvest Clean Energy Report.
The government has been coming to the table with funds for clean energy projects and most recently with their REAP funding or Rural Energy for America Program. Daryl Maas, co-founder of Farm Power in north east
MAAS: What our company does and what other people have done across the country is we’ve put in these anaerobic manure digesters on farms that have a lot of dairy manure and you put in a facility right there that harvests all the gas out of the manure and burns that gas to create electricity for sale to the utility.
Most dairy operations are too small to get into the digester side of things and that is where Farm Power comes in.
Using the REAP funds Maas has been able to implement this plan with good results and in fact the process produces almost no waste and it’s available at no cost to the dairy farmer.
For additional information on clean energy, visit harvestcleanenergy.org. That’s today’s Line On Agriculture. I’m Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.
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