Clean air is important to everyone, including farm families. Farmers protect air quality by keeping barns clean and using special manure storage facilities that help control odors.
Research and development has inspired new practices and innovative technologies to improve manure and odor management. For example, dairy nutritionists can
formulate diets for cows that reduce the odor of manure. Other technologies such as air filtration systems in barns, odor-reducing additives for manure storage facilities and even
methane digesters, which use manure to produce electricity, are being incorporated in many dairy operations.
Dairies turn cow manure into the nation’s most sought-after commodity – energy – while reducing odor along the way. Read more
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