Search results for: '"farm energy day'
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Farm Energy Day: Dairy Farm Energy Efficiency Opportunities
When Watch NowRecorded Apr 29, 2021Learn about dairy farm energy efficiency, how to save energy, and equipment and control upgrades during this webinar. - Webinars
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Farm Energy Day: Poultry Farm Energy Efficiency Opportunities
When Watch NowRecorded May 6, 2021Discover ways to improve energy use and reduce cost on your poultry farm. - Webinars
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Farm Energy Day: High Efficiency Lighting
When Watch NowRecorded Apr 1, 2021Learn about the most energy-efficient improvements you can make to your farm. - Webinars
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Farm Energy Day: Analyzing Your Farm's Utility Bills
When Watch NowRecorded Apr 22, 2021Ensure you are not overpaying on your farm's energy bill by learning what the details on your bill mean to you and your energy use! - Webinars
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Farm Energy Day: Solar Power on the Farm
When Watch NowRecorded Mar 18, 2021This webinar will discuss principles of operation, system configurations, economics, and the pros and cons of leasing vs. owning your system outright. - Webinars
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Farm Energy Day: Energy Answers for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers
When Watch NowRecorded Mar 25, 2021Beginner Farmers and Ranchers will have the opportunity to learn how to make their farm a success by making smart energy decisions early. - Webinars
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Farm Energy Day: Biogas Digesters for Heat and Power
When Watch NowRecorded Apr 15, 2021Learn about digesters, and how they can work for your farm, during this webinar. - Webinars
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Farm Energy Day: Making the Most of Your Heating Options
When Watch NowRecorded Apr 8, 2021Learn about different heating options for your farm, including keeping animals warm with space heat and grains dry with process heat and more! - Articles
Lease Your Farm's Energy Resources
Don't be too quick to sign away your potentially valuable resource. If the deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is. - Articles
Energy Efficiency on the Farm
We use energy to heat, cool, plant, harvest, clean, and perform a wide variety of tasks. However, the price of energy can sometimes be a real obstacle to keeping a farm profitable. - Articles
Energy Efficient Lighting for Farms
Follow these tips to help make sure that your new lighting system is truly efficient. - Articles
Harnessing Renewable Energy: A Sustainable Future for Farming
In this article, we will explore these renewable energy options and delve into how they positively impact the economics of the farming industry, along with possible funding opportunities. - Articles
On-Farm Production of Biomass Grass Pellets: A Case Study
This article describes an operation where switchgrass is grown and pelletized, covering all aspects of the operation, from crop establishment to marketing the crop, and an analysis of costs. - Articles
How a Dairy Farmer Can Improve Energy Efficiency
Are you looking for ways to cut your energy bill and stay competitive? If you're a dairy farmer, efficient energy use is critical to keeping your farm competitive in today's environment. - Articles
Covered Lagoon
A covered lagoon digester is a large anaerobic lagoon (not a manure storage pond or basin) with a long retention time and a high dilution factor. - Articles
Models for the Future: McCleaf's Orchard
McCleaf's Orchard is a fifth generation farm originally founded in 1888 and located in Biglerville, Pennsylvania. - Tools and Apps
DairyCents Mobile App
This mobile app calculates income over feed costs and compares prices of various feeds to the Penn State Feed Price List. - Articles
Haylage in a Day
The adoption of incorporating a wide cutting swath in forage harvest to speed up the dry down process has been increasing on farms across the United States. - Articles
Resource Recovery: Turning Waste into Energy
Resource recovery can reduce the amount of low density poyethelene (LDPE) in the waste stream and gain valuable energy. - Articles
Feed Analysis: It's All About Energy
Learn what grains are, what they contain, and how they can be used to meet the nutritional requirements of llamas and alpacas. - Articles
Refueling Your Mind and Body With A Day Off
Are you feeling overworked or overwhelmed? Plan a day off to give yourself some time to reset. - Articles
Tinedale Farm - Kaukauna, Wisconsin
Tinesdale Farm is a dairy operation in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. They have about 1,800 milking cows and and about 600 dry. - Articles
Evaluation of Energy Beets as an Ethanol Feedstock in Pennsylvania
Findings from a 2010 study of energy beets as an ethanol feedstock in Pennsylvania - Articles
High Efficiency Lighting for the Farm - Part 2
Upgrade options and common pitfalls for farm lighting. - Articles
Farm-Based Anaerobic Digestion Practices in the United States
Although some effort has focused on the AD of caged layer poultry manures, the manures from dairy and swine operations tend to be more suitable for farm-based energy conversion.
Eileen E. Fabian (Wheeler), Ph.D.
Professor of Agricultural Engineering