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Is an anaerobic digester right for your dairy farm?

June 14, 2017, Deerfield, Mass. – Peter Melnik, a fourth generation dairy farmer from Deerfield, Massachusetts, is a firm believer a farm should be economically and environmentally sustainable. This belief started him on a 10-year search for a way to make an anaerobic digester work on his farm.

“At first I thought I could build a small digester to produce enough electricity for my farm,” Melnick said. “Then the concept of food waste was introduced to me and the story just grows from there.”

The recent announcement of an alliance between Dairy Farmers of America and Vanguard Renewables, a Massachusetts-based renewable energy developer, was the missing piece of the puzzle for Melnik. READ MORE