10/12/2021
Check out the World Dairy Expo Virtual Tour with Austin Allred, Royal Family Farming. Austin explains how BioFiltro 's worm-powered wastewater system removes 90%-99% of the nutrients from his green water, builds soil by generating worm castings, and produces 6-8 carbon credits per milking cow.
Austin explains how they worked to improve the efficiencies of the system over the last 6 years, why the volume of compost bedding (80 tons/day) created a problem for the system and the solution he found. He and his team researched and visited farms with DCC Waterbeds prior to making his decision to switch.
DCC Waterbeds were installed in the free stall barns in August of 2021 to provide low-maintenance cow comfort that allows for a cleaner, simpler manure waste stream. The farm has transitioned about half of the stalls, and, Austin said, “with the waterbeds we have in, we’re using about 75% less bedding at this point.” He also commented that “within a few hours our cows were laying on those beds.”
Join Austin Allred, owner of Royal Dairy, in person or online at World Dairy Expo for a Virtual Farm Tour & Live Q&A. With 6,500 milking cows, Austin will explain how BioFiltro’s. worm-powered wastewater system removes 90%-99% of the nutrients from his green water, builds soil by generating