The document discusses how a ranch called YOUR Ranch, LLC can save money and generate additional income by composting horse bedding and manure on-site rather than disposing of it. It provides details on the costs of disposing of waste currently and the potential savings from composting, as well as the revenue that could be generated from selling the resulting compost. The document estimates that the ranch could save over $11,000 per year and earn over $5,700 in compost sales annually, providing a return on investment of 236% over 15 years from purchasing a composting system.
http://www.extension.org/67567 Composting is becoming widely accepted as a best management practice for equine facilities. Stable waste is a readily compostable feedstock which generates heat and transforms into a finished compost product in as little as 2 weeks using in-vessel technologies. Composting the stable waste is financially beneficial, turning a liability into an asset, negating disposal fees, offering a decrease in bedding expenses and creating a saleable product. In- vessel composting allows for compliance with increasing environmental regulations associated with manure management.
The primary topic will be the cost analysis of in-vessel vs. open pile composting of stable waste. The author will also compare the value of the product produced, specifically the value added with weed seed kill, reduction of pathogens, and the uniform quality and dryness of end product. The presenter will provide lab data showing compost stability and pathogen reduction using both shavings and pellet bedding. Value of the end product is seen in bedding re-use and/or soil amendment.
Discussion of cost savings will differ for different venues in the industry. Case studies will be shown for the financial analysis of a private 20 horse stable and the 65 horse stable at the US Army base at Fort Myer/Henderson Hall in Washington DC.
http://www.extension.org/67567 Composting is becoming widely accepted as a best management practice for equine facilities. Stable waste is a readily compostable feedstock which generates heat and transforms into a finished compost product in as little as 2 weeks using in-vessel technologies. Composting the stable waste is financially beneficial, turning a liability into an asset, negating disposal fees, offering a decrease in bedding expenses and creating a saleable product. In- vessel composting allows for compliance with increasing environmental regulations associated with manure management.
The primary topic will be the cost analysis of in-vessel vs. open pile composting of stable waste. The author will also compare the value of the product produced, specifically the value added with weed seed kill, reduction of pathogens, and the uniform quality and dryness of end product. The presenter will provide lab data showing compost stability and pathogen reduction using both shavings and pellet bedding. Value of the end product is seen in bedding re-use and/or soil amendment.
Discussion of cost savings will differ for different venues in the industry. Case studies will be shown for the financial analysis of a private 20 horse stable and the 65 horse stable at the US Army base at Fort Myer/Henderson Hall in Washington DC.
This presentation was created as part of Clemson MBA in Entrepreneurship Enterprize Awards, which were held in Charleston, Atlanta, and Greenville. Each candidate in the program presented his or her presentation to an audience and panel of judges. My presentation in Charleston, SC landed me in the top 5 for that night, where I went on to do a Q&A with the panel of judges.
Palladian Positioning is a product idea created in the program intended to provide premature infants in the NICU with products that can better imitate the feeling of being inside the mother's womb.
The presentation is intended to display the viability of the idea and how the product could eventually be marketed to the elderly segment as well.
This presentation was created as part of Clemson MBA in Entrepreneurship Enterprize Awards, which were held in Charleston, Atlanta, and Greenville. Each candidate in the program presented his or her presentation to an audience and panel of judges. My presentation in Charleston, SC landed me in the top 5 for that night, where I went on to do a Q&A with the panel of judges.
Palladian Positioning is a product idea created in the program intended to provide premature infants in the NICU with products that can better imitate the feeling of being inside the mother's womb.
The presentation is intended to display the viability of the idea and how the product could eventually be marketed to the elderly segment as well.
Animal agriculture adaptation planning guide (climate change)LPE Learning Center
This 44-page publication produced by the AACC project is a planning guide to help guide farmers through the process of future farm planning considering climate change.
Format: Factsheet or Publication - Reference: Schmidt, D., E. Whitefield, D. Smith. 2014. Produced for Animal Agriculture in a Changing Climate Project.
What is the difference when talking about weather versus climate? How do you measure and describe the atmosphere? How are models used in predicting weather or climate? For more on this topic, visit: http://extension.org/60702
What are some of the basic principles and terminology involved in climate change? Learn more about the Earth's atmosphere, energy balance, and how the greenhouse effect can alter both climate and weather. What is climate forcing? What is climate feedback? For more on this topic, visit: http://extension.org/60702
The current state of cap-and-trade in the U.S. and the mandatory greenhouse g...LPE Learning Center
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Contribution of greenhouse gas emissions: animal agriculture in perspectiveLPE Learning Center
What are the emissions of relevant greenhouse gases from animal agriculture production and how does that compare to other industries? For more on this topic, visit: http://extension.org/60702
User capabilities and next generation phosphorus (p) indicesLPE Learning Center
Full proceedings available at: http://www.extension.org/72814
The phosphorus (P) index is the primary approach to identify field management strategies and/or manure application strategies likely to lead to excessive risk of P loss. It has been over 40 years since the first research connecting agronomic P management and water quality and over 20 years since the initial publication defining a P Index. This session will consider opportunities to build on and expand existing P Index strategies to make them more effective at protecting water quality and friendlier to the target user.
Full proceedings available at: http://www.extension.org/72818
Phosphorus indices provide relative loss ratings that then have a corresponding management response. Because most state Phosphorus Indices are qualitative it is not clear how the relative loss rating corresponds to actual phosphorus inputs into the receiving water and how the receiving water would react to these additions. Even with qualitative Phosphorus Indices, unless the water resource has a specific Total Maximum Daily Load, it is not clear how losses correspond to water quality outcomes. These issues will be discussed in the context of the 590 Natural Resources Conservation Standard for nutrient management.
Full proceedings available at: http://www.extension.org/72868
There has been a tremendous amount of activity and funding of conservation programs with regional and watershed-specific cost-share initiatives. While there have been some successes, water quality response in many areas has not been as great as expected. This has led many to question the efficacy of these measures and to call for stricter land and nutrient management strategies. In many cases, this limited response has been due to the legacies of past management activities, where sinks and stores of phosphorus along the land-freshwater continuum mask the effects of reductions in edge-of-field losses of phosphorus.
Estimation of phosphorus loss from agricultural land in the southern region o...LPE Learning Center
Full Proceedings is available at: http://www.extension.org/72817
The purpose of our work was to determine, within the southern region (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, OK, SC, TN, and TX), the feasibility of using different models to determine potential phosphorus loss from agricultural fields in lieu of phosphorus indices.
Estimation of phosphorus loss from agricultural land in the heartland region ...LPE Learning Center
Full Proceedings is available at: http://www.extension.org/72813
Phosphorus (P) indices are a key tool to minimize P loss from agricultural fields but there is insufficient water quality data to fully test them. Our goal is to use the Agricultural Policy/Environmental eXtender Model (APEX), calibrated with existing edge-of-field runoff data, to refine P indices and demonstrate their utility as a field assessment tool capable of protecting water quality. In this phase of the project our goal is to use existing small-watershed data from the Heartland Region (IA, KS, MO and NE) to determine the level of calibration needed for APEX before using the model to generate estimates of P loads appropriate for evaluating a P Index.
Checking ambition with reality the pros and cons of different approaches to s...LPE Learning Center
Full proceedings available at: http://www.extension.org/72793
The revision of the USDA-NRCS national standard for nutrient management in 2011 was driven, in part, by inconsistencies in state phosphorus (P) indices, rekindling debates over standardizing indices at regional or national scales. Reasonable arguments exist for maintaining the status quo, which allows for state specific site assessment approaches, as well as for regional and national P Indices, which would take advantage of expertise, resources and technologies that may not exist locally. In addition, a diversity of site assessment approaches have now been proposed that differ from the original P Index. Understanding the benefits and limitations provided with these approaches is key to advancing site assessment for P management.
Removing phosphorus from drainage water the phosphorus removal structureLPE Learning Center
Full proceedings available at: http://www.extension.org/72839
We constructed a phosphorus (P) removal structure on a poultry farm in Eastern OK; this is a BMP that can remove dissolved P loading in the short term until soil legacy P concentrations decrease below levels of environmental concern. A P removal structure contains P sorbing materials (PSMs) and are placed in a location to intercept runoff or subsurface drainage with high dissolved P concentrations. As high P water flows through the PSMs, dissolved P is sorbed onto the materials by several potential mechanisms, allowing low P water to exit the structure. While they vary in form, P removal structures contain three main elements: 1) use of a filter material that has a high affinity for P, 2) containment of the material, and 3) the ability to remove that material and replace it after it becomes saturated with P and is no longer effective.
Legacy phosphorus in calcareous soils effects of long term poultry litter app...LPE Learning Center
Full proceedings available at: http://www.extension.org/72864
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Identify and synthesize methods to refine phosphorus indices from three regio...LPE Learning Center
The full proceedings paper is at: http://www.extension.org/72867
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Modeling phosphorus runoff in the chesapeake bay region to test the phosphoru...LPE Learning Center
Full Proceedings available at: http://www.extension.org/72795
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1. How YOUR Ranch, LLC can profit by Composting, Recycling
Bedding, Saving Disposal Costs, and Selling Compost
Yellow is for input
18 horses in Composter Reduces Volume and Produces
stalls Bedding and Saleable Compost
cu yd
0.5 new/stall 0.4 composter reduces waste volume
screened composter output is
0.6 bedding
Cost of Shavings screened composter output is
0.4 compost
yards per
40 month 722.7 cu yd waste/year
$744 per month 433.62 cu yds./yr. post-composter
deliveries
12 per year 260.17 cu yds. superior bedding/year
$8,928 per year 173.45 cu yds saleable compost/year
Waste Annual Savings
cu yd per
0.11 stall/day 0.5 reduction in new shavings
cu yd
723 waste/year $4,464 saved per year on shavings
cu yd per
2 day ios $1,200 saved per year on disposal
same as
Disposal Costs purchase $0 saved per year (or more) in fines
$100 month * $5,664 Total Annual Savings
waste
$1,200 cost/year
*based on
fuel only Increased Income
Fines $20 per cu yd compost
$0 per infraction $5,781.60 compost income per year
Annual
Costs, to Annual Savings + Income
$10,128 Reduce $11,446
Income
Return On is figured from
Investment here as Operations divided by Invested Assets
cost
reductions
plus new
income
2. Investment
Costs These costs are estimated at the time of the conference. NO CONTRACT IS OFFERED OR IMPLIED.
Earth Flow
11 5 cu yards/day
$49,975 estimated Purchase price
$9,500 other equipment for recycling shavings
$1,484.25 Maintenance annually 2% of capital
$1,000 Shipping
per day Electricity
Sales Tax
Installation
$1,895 Option 1 extended warranty
$2,250 Option 2 extended maintenance
$ 61,026 first-year cost of 1 Earth Flow 11
$65,171 first year cost of Earth Flow 11 with options
1.00 Earth Flow 11 needed
$61,026 first year cost of Earth Flow 11
15 years lifespan
$72,739 15-year cost of Earth Flow 11
ROI on
System 0
$11,446 Yearly Income from Operations, Saved + Sold
$171,684 15-year Income
236% Return on Investment
Break
Even
6.36 years
horses/cu
9 yard/day
amount made to
spend on new
cu yd one in 8.8 years
5 max/day/CT40 $100,721.28 left of life span
horses
45 max/CT40
3. Collective Site Cost Model
Assumptions:
25% Haul in Horse Waste 75% Container Occupancy
75% Contract Horse Waste 3$ Tipping Fee Haul In per Yard
15% Growth Market Share/ Market Growth $50 Monthly Rental Fee Container
33% Reduction through Composting $5 Finished Compost Sale Price per Yard
Income Contract based on 30 yard container, Assumes no increase of fees or sale price
$200 per pick up compost over 10 years
Years 1 2 3 4 5
Number of Horses Haul ins 1,000 1,150 1,323 1,521 1,749
Volume Waste Haul ins 74 85 98 113 129
Volume after Reduction Composting 44 51 59 68 78
Yearly Volume 16,206 18,637 21,432 24,647 28,344
Number of Contract Horses 3,000 3,450 3,968 4,563 5,247
Volume Waste Contract Horses 222 255 294 338 388
Volume after Reduction Composting 133 153 176 203 233
Yearly Volume 48,618 55,911 64,297 73,942 85,033
Total Number of Horses 4,000 4,600 5,290 6,084 6,996
Total Yearly Volume In 296 340 391 450 518
Total Yearly Volume Out 222 255 294 338 388
Income
Income Container Rental $33,750 $42,750 $51,750 $60,750 $69,750
Income Haul ins $48,618 $55,911 $64,297 $73,942 $85,033
Income Contract Horses $540,200 $621,230 $714,415 $821,577 $944,813
Income Sale of Compost $324,120 $372,738 $428,649 $492,946 $566,888
Gross Income $946,688 $1,092,629 $1,259,111 $1,449,215 $1,666,484
Capital Costs
Site Capital + Financing Cost $78,257 $78,257 $78,257 $78,257 $78,257
Site Capital + Financing Cost $78,257 $78,257 $78,257 $78,257 $78,257
4. Support Equipment and Financing Phase One Phase Two
Truck $110,000 $10,598 $110,000 $110,000
Mixer $75,000 $7,226
Trommel Screen $85,000 $8,189
Front End Loader $120,000 $11,561 $120,000 $120,000
Containers $225,000 $21,677 $60,000 $60,000 $60,000 $60,000
ASP Pad & Aeration System $450,000 $29,273 $450,000
Equipment Cost $1,065,000
Yearly Payment Principle, Interest+Cash
expenditure $59,251 $119,251 $129,848 $141,409 $192,841
Operating Cost
Labor $129,416 $142,358 $156,593 $172,253 $189,478
Insurance and overhead $69,500 $76,450 $84,095 $92,505 $101,755
Electrical and Utilities $71,743 $78,917 $86,809 $95,490 $105,039
Fuel $171,600 $188,760 $207,636 $228,400 $251,240
Maintenance $23,750 $26,125 $28,738 $31,611 $34,772
Total Operating Cost $466,009 $512,610 $563,871 $620,258 $682,284
Total Cost $603,517 $710,117 $771,976 $839,924 $953,382
Net Income $343,171 $382,511 $487,134 $609,290 $713,102