Brookside Dairy

Since the age of 15 I have worked at the Dairy Queen in Montvale, NJ. The Montvale Dairy Queen was opened in 1957 by a family with the last name of Stoll and since then it has remained in their family. Unlike a lot of Dairy Queens that are indoors the one I work out is essentially a free standing “shack” that uses windows to receive people’s orders and where people receive their ice cream and other treats.

The author states that cows are responsible of at least 18% of methane that is in our atmosphere. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is odorless and colorless. The author also states that carbon dioxide is cleaner than methane. Methane released right into the atmosphere will be a thing of the past, because the National Institute For Agricultural Technology of Argentina has created a backpack that can be placed on cows. That bag has tubes that go into the digestive tract of the cow and collects 300 liters of methane. That is enough energy to be used to power a car for 24 hours instead of being released into the atmosphere. While each bag collects only 300 liters, one adult cow will produce 1000 liters of methane in one day. One day of methane collection can power a car for more than 72 hours or 3 cars for more than 24 hours. Methane can also be used for generating electricity by burning it to produce heat. While methane is harmful, there are still ways to reduce the output of it in the atmosphere by putting it to good

This case analysis is about Shane Eten’s business idea to turn food waste in to biogas locally through composting technology rather than big centralized ones that already exist. He and his newly found partner Ryan are trying to find investors to start off their business in the CleanTech industry. Shane has had a successful experience as an entrepreneur in small business and is now eager to start something on his own, his ambition can only be matched by Ryan’s determination to do something new and exciting with his engineering talents. These two ambitious individuals have everything except investors.

Polyface model - Integrated strategy: Polyface is a small scale, community oriented farming. It was envisioned to be an environmentally sustainable farm, effectively utilizing the resources inherent in the land, and mimicking the natural ecosystem. The activities of the farm animals complimented each other and contributed to the overall effectiveness and productivity of the farm’s system. The waste produced was ultimately returned back-to-the-land. For example Polyface utilized excreta and composted internal organs of the farm animals for use as natural fertilizer for the grass. It believed in nature’s biodiversity system and maintained its animal ratio accordingly to suit that system. For example the hen to cow ratio was 16:1 which effectively helped process the cow manure. Polyface focused on organic farming, selling the bulk of their products locally. Compared to the industrial model, Polyface produced

In the past century there has been a substantial change in the way human beings raise and keep animals meant for food. While in the past there were great numbers of widely spaced small individual farms, now there are relatively few, but extremely large industrialized farms. And as the numbers of animals kept and slaughtered for human consumption increases, these industrialized farms, known as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations or CAFO's, are having more and more of an impact on the environment and people around them. The concentration of animals causes a major problem with the waste products they produce, as well as the gases, chemicals, and other types of byproducts. And the increased use of antibiotics in the animals is beginning to have a profound effect on the health of not only the environment but the communities that exist around these industrialized farms. CAFO's, and their secondary industries, are also a large consumer of oil, gasoline, and other fuels which can have an indirect, but devastating effect on the environment. Luckily there are some who have come to recognize the problems, and potential future problems, involved in this type of animal farming and have begun to inform the public to the dangers these farms pose. And in response to this information, the public is beginning to force changes in the way these CAFO's operate and the impact they have on the environment and

Like energy crops, BSFL have not been previously digested and thus may offer higher bio-methane potential than manures or biowastes. However, unlike energy crops, BSFL would not compete with food crops in agricultural land usage, and pose the associated environmental issues such as soil erosion and pesticide leakage to surface and ground water (EEA, 2006). Furthermore, BSFL have a high per-acre productivity, fast growth rate, and can be grown on non-arable land areas similar to algae. However, harvesting and valorization of algae biomass require significant water use and high capital and operation costs, which make it economically challenging (Mussgnug et al., 2010).

This conservation plan has been put together to identify any soil, salinity, fertility, water, grazing and manure management issues that Cattleland Feed yards might have and to make recommendations on how to improve them. The goal is to make the land owner more informed and knowledgeable of the beneficial management practice and get them to commit to improving them. This will need to be done in a realistic and financially manageable way.

Local farmers understand the implication of commercial fertilizers and how runoff into the bay effects and contributes to the nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants. Several poultry farmers offer manure nutrients to crop farmers as a natural fertilizer option, containing and holding the poultry manure in a warehouse until spring when it is legal to spread which prevents excessive runoff into the bay (Maryland Department of Agriculture, n.d.).

“In 1970 Cumberland Farms added, for the first time, a gas station to one of its stores, even though major gasoline dealers abandoned their service stations in the wake of the 1973-1974 Arab oil embargo” (Cumberland Farms, Inc., 2007). “Cumberland Farms received unwelcome publicity when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency charged it, in 1985, with selling gasoline adulterated with alcohol beyond legal limits at 24 of its service stations” (Cumberland Farms, Inc., 2015). “Cumberland Farms withdrew from agriculture in 1986, selling 5,000 acres of Cape Cod land, along with a cranberry processing plant and freezer facilities, and at about the same time it closed down its 400-acre dairy farm in Bridgewater, Massachusetts” (Cumberland Farms,

Lets all take a trip to get ice cream and enjoy a perfect study date. Who would ever think that it would be such a joy to just share your thoughts over ice cream and nice customer service. While working with ULM students at Dairy Queen has been an wonderful eye opener for me and my now close friends . We have came to have the most special bonds just during the first week of training. Dairy Queen is not just a place that smells just like fried chicken strips and fries, but also has this warm feeling of safeness and quietness. You all should come out and enjoy the great times at dairy Queen.

If the United States Federal Government was considering whether or not to implement a minimum wage of $10 per hour, many aspects would have to be considered and the Dairy Queen corporation, as well as its employees and customers, would all experience several changes. The first impact of this could be that Dairy Queen workers would receive a higher salary. Due to this change in pay, employees could not only have a higher income, but might also be able to raise their standard of living, which would better the nation as a whole. Also, a wage increase might allow workers with children or families with the ability to pay for and provide more necessities for their loved ones. Along with the benefits for the employees, the Dairy Queen franchise as

Sixty thousand pounds of wet manure is produced each day by the five thousand cows that are located on the George DeRuyter and Sons dairy farm in Outlook Washington (Bonneville). You might be thinking “that’s a lot of crap”, well you’re right! The positive to all this crap is that something can be done with it. Anaerobic Digestion is a biological method when microorganism hydrolyze-break down- waste material when there is no oxygen present (American 1). Anaerobic digesters can take animal wastes, such as cow manure, and through a process break the waste down into organic molecules that can be further hydrolyzed and used as an energy source. If further steps are taken such as, removing carbon dioxide, nitrogen and oxygen from the substance then

Nollywood on-screen character, Ruth Kadiri has reviled each and every man in government that has not kept to their guarantee. The clearly disappointed message from the performer was imparted tailing her experience to a lady she met while on her approach to approach to work early today. The lady's auto had separated and she was on the telephone misleading her manager that she'll soon be grinding away.

Anaerobic digester (AD) systems produce electricity and heat from the biogas produced from organic inputs. Farm-based AD systems represent a significant opportunity for farmers to capture new value from agricultural product and byproducts, and from some off-farm organic inputs. As farm-based green energy becomes a new on-farm product, more and more farmers will be looking at ways to finance and build AD systems.

The issue of food waste is one that many people might not consider to be serious, but it is critical to the environment that a solution is devised. Fortunately, there are many simple things that people all over the world can do to keep the Earth healthy. First, if farmers and agricultural employees would prevent overgrazing, pesticide pollution, and over plowing, water would be saved, and the general health of the