US Sec. of Ag. Tom Vilsack announced recently in Copehagen that the US Dairy industry is commiting to 25% reduction on greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. A major component of this initative will focus on capture and distruction of methane produced by dairy cattle. Vilsack indicates that various programs will be coming together to support the development of systems such as anaerobic digesters. See the Copehagen attachement for the full press release.
This is a reminder that the next Ag Success meeting is Tuesday of next week, January 26 at 7:30am. Please note that the location has changed for this month to the OSU Extension Meeting Room in the basement of the Administration Building. Thank you!
Today, DOE announced $20.5 Million in funding for five (5) Community Renewable Energy Deployment projects. The appears to be a program which is testing the capacity of communites, public entities and small utilities to deploy multiple and multifaceted projects on their own.
Us ethis link to access the report provided at this mornings meeting. As stated, it does provide some broad, research based vision of the current state and future of agriculture. Would be interested in in any other publications like this that you come across.
Following is a sample letter of invitation sent by Abbe Turner to potentially interested parties in developing new opportunities in agricultural businesses in Portage County. This could help the Ag Success Team draft a similar invitation for a gathering of our neighbors in Wayne Co. and surroundings.
This past Friday, the Ohio Department of Agriculture posted the 2010 application for The Clean Ohio funded Agricultural Easement Purchase Program. You may wish to pass this message and / or the informational attachments along to those who may have an interest in the program. Within Wayne County landowners who intend to apply should contact Maryanna Biggio, volunteer within the Wayne Co. Planning Dept, at 330.287.5420
For those of you that like to learn from others, the Wisconsion Biogas Casebook for 2009 has been posted. This publication by Focus on Energy provides operational profiles for 20 plus livestock based digesters operating within the state.
The next Ag Success meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, March 9in the Lounge of the Administration Building.We realize this conflicts with a few of your schedules, but went with the date that had the most available.Please mark your calendars!
