GSR showcased its cutting-edge nutreint recovery technology to an audience passionate about local innovation and environmental stewardship.
For over a decade, GSR has collaborated with dairy farms to develop sustainable nutrient treatment solutions from dairy manure and food waste. The current commercial-scale biotechnology solution at Green Mountain Dairy has successfully extracted valuable nutrients from an on-farm anaerobic digester's waste stream to create saleable organic fertilizers.
Ten USDA NRCS Hub Co-leads traveled to this dairy farm and observed the GSR-AD-BOLTTM system in action. During the tour, they visited the farm's biodigester, which produces electricity and cow bedding. The biodigester supports the commercial production of organic fertilizer supported by the GSR-AD-BOLTTM system that captures nutrients from the liquid manure digestate. .
GSR, in collaboration with a Franklin County dairy farm, is excited to announce the first commercial launch of a technology that converts liquid manure waste stream into value-added fertilizers.
GSR, along with one of its dairy partners, achieved commercial operation of GSR’s biotechnology for dairy farms to transform liquid manure wastewater into value-added fertilizers.
GSR Solutions
has
initiated a feasibility plan for renewable energy production integrated with nutrient
recovery solutions with dairy farms and stakeholders in Franklin County.
GSR Solutions
has
announced a planning project with a livestock and producer farm partner in New
Hampshire. This project aims to produce organic value-added products from livestock
manure and food waste for improving the profitability of certified organic vegetable
production. The US Department of Agriculture and farm stakeholders are supporting this
effort.
GSR Solutions
has
initiated a planning project with a farm partner in Chittenden County for producing
value-added co-products from dairy farm waste materials for improving the farm's cash
flow. The US Department of Agriculture and farm stakeholders are supporting this effort.
GSR Solutions
has
announced a fifth round of field trials for fertilizer produced from its conservation
practice for managing nutrient runoff from manure to improve water quality as well as
facilitate soil-carbon sequestration for soil health. The US Department of Agriculture
and farm stakeholders are supporting this effort.
GSR Solutions,
in partnership with a local dairy farm, breaks
ground for installing a nutrient recovery facility in Franklin County, VT. The facility
will capture nutrients from wet manure and food waste streams for producing organic
fertilizer. The US Department of Agriculture and farm stakeholders are supporting this
exciting new
project.
GSR Solutions
announced the adoption of its GSR-AD-BOLTTM technology by a local dairy farm
in
Franklin County, VT. The facility will capture nutrients from wet manure and food waste
streams for producing organic fertilizer. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and
farm stakeholders are supporting this exciting new project.
GSR technologies have been selected for two farm projects supported by the USDA programs.
The GLOBAL
TERRATON CHALLENGE has recently selected GSR as an innovator for propelling agriculture
forward as a key soil carbon sequestration solution (out of more than 260 applicants
representing 44 countries) to accelerate the sequestration of 1 trillion tons of carbon
into agricultural soils. Farmers have committed over 10 million acres of cropland to
participate in Terraton's program.
The Commercial
Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) has
published the
Farm-to-Fly 2.0 (F2F2) Fact Sheet and summarized GSR's project in Vermont for the
integration of anaerobic digesters to process dairy farm waste to produce fuels as well
as animal feed, fertilizer, potable water, and co-benefits of nutrient effluent
reduction.
The organic
certified fertilizer and soil amendments from GSR's nutrient recovery system have been
successfully tested through multiple trials designed to determine the best timing and
rates for agronomic purposes as well as the impact on soil health and the environment.
This project is supported by the US Department of Agriculture and several participating
livestock farms.
The end of the
first
quarter of 2018 marked the completion of GSR's farm partner's planning project for the
production of fertilizer. Cooperative efforts to regionalize the effort are in progress
with leadership at dairy co-operatives and individual co-op members.
Algal Biofuel
Industry Resilience: GSR Solutions provides
insightful analysis into biofuel R&D and the implementation of an efficient stream of
algal biofuel to power transportation.
GSR Solutions
LLC includes farm technology partnerships among its technology projects to reduce
nutrients
like nitrogen and phosphorus.
Across rural
America, cooperatives have helped farmers and small businesses band together to
accomplish
more than they could on their own.
The EPA
received
concept papers from around the world in Phase I and selected 34 submissions to continue
on to Phase II of the challenge.
Innovation
continues to thrive in the Green Mountain State. The Nordic Farm is looking at using
algae to turn manure and other biological waste into fuel and fertilizer.
The technology being explored at Nordic Farm takes a step beyond anaerobic digestion.
Even though Cow Power is able to harvest a valuable product from manure, one byproduct of anaerobic digestion is a nutrient dense liquid. Since farmers need to apply this liquid when it is produced, its use is often an inopportune time during the year when the Vermont landscape is already overburdened with nutrients. The excessive nutrients then run off the land and cause water pollution.
The farm is working with GSR Solutions to introduce algae to the liquid waste as a means to both eliminate the harmful byproducts of anaerobic digestion and put them to good use. Read MoreAn innovative
new
process pioneered by Burlington-based GSR Solutions has the potential to reduce nitrogen
and phosphorus runoff into our lakes and streams while creating a liquid biofuel that
can be used to heat our homes, power our vehicles, and fly our planes. The progress of
this effort is the focus of a meeting next week among a growing and diverse coalition of
stakeholders.
CHARLOTTE –
A long-simmering project to wring fuel and electricity from manure-fed algae at a
Charlotte
dairy farm warmed up Thursday with the announcement of a key partnership with Vermont's
largest power utility.
Green Mountain Power has an agreement with Burlington-based GSR Solutions to pursue ways to add small refineries of biodiesel and even jet fuel to manure digesters that generate power, said the utility's president and CEO Mary Powell at a news conference at Nordic Farms.
The GSR Solutions system is designed to slow the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas released during manure's decomposition. The process also sequesters organic nutrients in manure that have for generations contributed to Lake Champlain's declines in water quality. The new digesters "can kick the butt out of phosphorus," Powell said, referring to a key polluting fertilizer.
Read MoreCHARLOTTE, Vt. -
Vermont scientists believe they may have the next wave of cow power. That is taking
byproducts
of manure and turning them into fuel.
Charlotte, VT - In
Environmental Matters, fueling Vermont through moo power?
A Vermont based bio-chemical research group (GSR) found a way to convert farm-waste into biofuels. The same animals that bring us our cheese and milk, could be heating our homes and fueling our vehicles.
Read More
The first half
of
2014 was a period of significant successes on the East Coast relating to the "Farm to
Fly 2.0" (F2F2) initiative, an agreement between the U.S. Department of Transportation
(DOT) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to continue to work together to advance
the use of renewable fuels in the aviation industry.
CHARLOTTE
–In
moderation, and carefully applied to fields, livestock feces has for millennia been an
invaluable farm resource.
Some folk at the gathering suggested that algae ranching might be a perfect fit for Vermont's decentralized agricultural economy, where transportation costs for heating fuel, diesel and propane have perennially whittled away at bottom lines.
Ted Brady, Vermont's director of rural development for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said reducing energy costs on farms has become his agency's number-one priority.
Read MoreThe distillation
process also produces animal feed or fertilizer as a byproduct. GSR researchers say that
the fertilizer might help to reduce phosphorus runoff into Lake Champlain.
This, said Todd Campbell, energy adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, signifies progress. “Being on the cutting edge here not only has implications for rural Vermont but really our interest at USDA is the win-win-win situation where we see positive results for the dairy operation, for the community and for the country as a whole,” Campbell said.
Matt Cota, executive director of the fuel dealers group, says the initiative has potential because Vermont has the highest density of cows per acre of any state in the U.S. and half of Vermonters heat with oil.
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CHARLOTTE, Vt. —
For centuries, farmers have struggled to find ways to get rid of it. Now, GSR
researchers
say they've identified the process to convert cow manure into a strain of algae that
contains fuel oils.
"We make a huge amount of manure in this state which goes along with our dense population of dairy cows," said Clark Hinsdale, owner of Nordic Farms. "To efficiently use that resource for energy and fertilizer is a whole new income stream."
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"We've always
known that Vermont farms and Vermont dairy farms make some of the best milk in the
world. But did any of us ever know that these same cows can produce fuel oil?" - Ted
Brady, Vermont director for rural development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture
There’s nothing new about algae biofuel, which is being produced in far larger quantities at test facilities around the globe. But officials said GSR enterprise is the first to produce oil by using farm waste as food for the oil-producing algae. “This is an important first step,” says Todd Campbell, energy advisor to the U.S. secretary of agriculture. “And that’s what we’re interested in at USDA, is proving out the concept, taking small steps forward to optimizing systems.”
Read MoreCHARLOTTE, Vt. -
We've told you in the past about how cow manure is being used to generate electricity;
now, researchers say manure can also fuel your car and heat your home.
GSR's
CSTO-Research Scientist GSR Solutions LLC presented "Vermont Farm to Fly"
advanced biofuel effort on State and Local aviation initiatives at the Commercial
Aviation
Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI bi-annual meeting) last week on January 29th at
Washington
DC
Burlington, VT–
January 02, 2014 – General Systems Research, an algae technology development company,
today announced it is reorganizing into GSR Solutions LLC. GSR retains the acronym
for General Systems Research. GSR Solutions LLC will serve as a new entity to develop
innovative technologies. The new name, GSR Solutions reflects a novel business model for
company’s operations
in providing cutting edge technologies for manufacture of valued by-products
such as fertilizer, neutraceuticals, and biofuel for addressing multiple markets.