System for treatment of manure
AssigneeABI Alfalfa Inc.
InventorsJim Moutray, Paul Joe Solar
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Abstract
A waste management system dispenses liquid manure and/or sludge products onto land on which is grown a cultivar that is specially selected to perform with improved yields and stand persistence under conditions of heavy traffic, grazing, manure application and/or fertilizer loading. Selective breeding and/or selection for improved performance under conditions of heavy traffic, grazing and defecation has produced cultivars that demonstrate improved performance in this use.
Claims35
A waste management system comprising,
- a supply facility for use in providing organic waste material,
- the supply facility selected from the group consisting of an agroindustrial facility, an animal production facility, a feedlot, a dairy, a poultry farm, and a sewage plant;
- land for use as a disposition point for the organic waste material;
- a conveyance for transporting the organic waste material from the supply facility to the land;
- a crop of growing on the land for use in subjecting the organic waste material deposited on the land to in vivo processing,
- the crop being breeder_specially selected for superior phenotype and survivability under at least one of grazing stress, manure loading stress and traffic stress;
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- a dispenser assembly for use in applying the organic waste material to the crop.
In a waste management system that generates animal waste and disposes of the animal waste by dispensing the same onto land where a crop is planted, the improvement comprising:
- a crop of alfalfa and/or clover growing on the land, the crop of alfalfa and/or clover selected from a breeder program to provide increased yields under conditions of heavy traffic, grazing and manure stress.
A method of organic waste processing and disposal in a facility, the method comprising the steps of:
- supplying organic waste material via a facility selected from the group consisting of an agroindustrial facility, an animal production facility, a feedlot, a dairy, a poultry farm, and a sewage plant;
- processing the organic waste material to provide liquid manure;
- growing a crop of alfalfa and/or clover on land, the crop being specially selected for genetics that provide at least one of superior phenotype, survivability, and yield performance under traffic, grazing and manure stress;
- transporting the organic waste material from the facility to the land;
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- depositing the liquid manure on the land for use by the crop to subject the liquid manure to in vivo processing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.