Cooperative Approaches to Facilitate the Use of Anaerobic Digesters on Dairy Farms Carolyn Liebrand USDA Rural Development Biofuels: Prospects and Challenges in Development and Policy Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists and Southern Rural Sociology Association Annual meeting, February 2, 2009 This presentation is based on the forthcoming RBS Research Report 217, Cooperative Approaches for Implementation of Dairy Manure Digesters to be published circa Jan/Feb 2009 by USDA/Rural Business- Cooperative Service.
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Cooperative Approaches to Facilitate the Use of Anaerobic Digesters on Dairy FarmsCarolyn LiebrandUSDA Rural Development
Biofuels: Prospects and Challenges in Development and PolicySouthern Association of Agricultural Scientists and Southern Rural Sociology Association Annual meeting, February 2, 2009
This presentation is based on the forthcoming RBS Research Report 217, Cooperative Approaches for Implementation of Dairy Manure Digesters to be published circa Jan/Feb 2009 by USDA/Rural Business-Cooperative Service.
Qualified to receive carbon credit if: Net reduction of carbon emissions from base period Measureable and verifiable Clear ownership of claim
CCX 1 contract = 100 MT of CO2-e ; <100 contracts need aggregator One cow represents 5 metric tons/year CO2-e (methane from AD) ~ 20 cows/contract; < 2,000 cows need aggregator
But! Only 95 AD projects on dairy farms in
19 states (according to NRCS, 2007)
Less than 0.2 % of licensed dairy farms
Obstacles to adoption of anaerobic digesters for dairy manure
Anaerobic digester Capital cost Limited number of providers Lack of information Adapting digester to exiting manure system Additional demands on operator time and
skill
Obstacles to adoption of anaerobic digesters for dairy manure
Capturing value low rates paid by utilities interconnection issues inability to utilize effluent on farm
Bedding, fertilizer
inability to market products from effluent Bedding, fertilizer, soil amendment, carbon
credits, gas
Negotiation Prices and terms with utilities Digester providers Firms with organic waste