Kari Fleury

Mitchell Woodstrom
Adam Liestman

We are planning on building two 10,000 sq ft

Barns for 1,000 cows
There will be two free roam barns
The whole operation will take up about 4.5
acres not including the fields
Between the two barns will be our milk house
with a milking station at the end of each barn

We will be installing a Plug Flow System

Digester
The Digester is going to need to be big enough
to handle the 150,000 pounds of manure day
coming from the 1,000 cattle
Our dimensions are 100ft x 20ft x 5ft deep
We will be using concrete to build our digester
with

We will need 135 kw generator for our Digester

We will be putting the digester above ground
due to the changing Minnesota climate and
clay soil

Odor control
Reduce or even eliminate electrical costs for the
farm
Can create a extra source of income for the
farm with the excess electricity and the excess
effluent that can be sold as fertilizer
Heat put off from the generator can be used to
heat the barn floor

The Haubenschild Farms plug flow digester

started operations in the Fall of 1999
Located near Princeton, Minnesota the
Haubenschild Farms operates a 750 head dairy
The biogas produces enough electricity to
power the farm and the equivalent of
approximately 75 homes

Top Deck Holsteins Inc.

Located in Iowa
Dimensions 8.2m x 37.8m inside by 3.6m deep
average dollars saved for a month would be
$2505 if they only generated electricity for their
farm
This translates to a savings of $30,000 per year

http://extension.psu.edu/energy/waste-toenergy/biogas/types-of-anaerobicdigesters/plug-flow
http://www.uwplatt.edu/~zauchet/UWPCity-Digester-final.pdf
http://extension.psu.edu/energy/waste-toenergy/biogas/documents/haubenschildfarms-plug-flow.pdf
http://www.agronext.iastate.edu/immag/info
/iadairyfarm.pdf