Feedstuffs in Focus

Understanding a U.S.-based solution to rising fertilizer costs

Episode Summary

A simple, sustainable, and effective - yet not well-known - solution for rising fertilizer prices, is digestate, the byproduct of anaerobic digestion of organic waste material. Patrick Serfass, Executive Director of the American Biogas Council, joins us to share insight on the fertilizer market and this alternative source of nutrients.

Episode Notes

Livestock producers could play a role in helping crop producers manage one of their costliest inputs. A simple, sustainable, and effective - yet not well-known - solution for rising fertilizer prices, is digestate, the byproduct of anaerobic digestion of organic waste material like animal manure.

In this episode we talk with Patrick Serfass, Executive Director of the American Biogas Council, who shares his insights on what’s happening in the fertilizer market and how this alternative source of nutrients can be a boon for livestock and feed grain producers alike.

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