poultry manure management with biochar project update
Goals and Objectives
Demonstrate the techno-economic benefits of poultry manure management with biochar.
Measure over the course of the manure management cycle:
- Nitrogen retention during the process
- GHG off-gassing during the process
- Temperature and time to complete the process
- Various manure chemical properties
Benefits to business:
- Increases in nitrogen retention increases the value of the poultry manure as an organic farming amendment
- Reductions in GHG off-gassing including N2O and NH3 can indicate more nitrogen retention, and reduction in GHG’s could produce a revenue stream from future emission avoidance credit markets
- Higher temperatures can result in a faster process allowing for a higher throughput operation
- If a faster process results in less pile turning the labor cost of the operation are reduced
