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Article: New plant offers hope
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- St. Joseph News-Press
- Article date:
- July 31, 2004
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Premium Standard Farms is building a new plant in Sullivan County
to turn the manure from 110,000 pigs into fertilizer for golf
courses. PSF officials also hope the plant turns critics into
believers.
The new plant will use a series of basins to gradually separate
nutrients from the water used to flush manure out of the hog barns
through a natural freeze/thaw process. The material will move through
a dryer and charring drum to become virtually odorless pellets with a
nutrient analysis of 12-8-8 of nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium.
The new plant will cost $9 million. The investment is part of
PSF's settlement with the state in 1999 regarding environmental
violations. The company agreed to ...