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Vol. VI No. 1
January / February 2012
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Sweet Smell of Success
When Business Stinks
Retail Garden Center
Owner Finds Niche Market
as National Distributor of
Mushroom Compost
J
immy Sharpe says he isn’t complaining
when he says his business stinks. That’s
just the way it is when you’re one of
the nation’s largest mushroom compost
distributors. While some people may hold their
nose at the odiferous product, others who have
spread it on their gardens and landscaping swear
by the results.
“People were apprehensive at first,” says
Sharpe, who along with his wife Debra run
Sharpe Landscape Supply in West Columbia,
S.C. “Some were willing to try it. They would
come back and, pardon the pun, it just started
mushrooming.”
Today, Sharpe Landscape Supply
is selling mushroom compost
to companies from
Nebraska to Florida.
“We sell hundreds and
hundreds and hundreds
of tractor-trailer loads,”
Sharpe says.
That’s a far cry
from the days when
Sharpe would load
some bags of mushroom
compost in the back of
his car and travel around
trying to convince centers
and supply yards to purchase
it in bulk.
“When I would open up the
trunk, people would just back up and
say, ‘My gosh, what is that odor?’” he says with
a laugh. “I would say back then that my business
stinks. But it smelled like money to me.”
The odor of the mushroom compost was
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never a problem for Sharpe, who has a condition
since birth called anosmia.
“My ability to market the product when
I first started dealing with it was due to the
fact that I did not have a sense of smell,”
he explains.
Sharpe admits he didn’t know
anything about mushroom
compost until the manager
of a hardware store in
Atlanta, Ga., asked him
about it. At the time,
he was working for a
fertilizer manufacturing
company. He promised
to look into it.
What he discovered
wa s t h at mu s h ro o m
compost is a mixture of
ingredients, including wheat
straw, peat moss, cottonseed
meal, cottonseed hulls, corncobs,
cocoa bean shells, gypsum, lime, chicken
litter and/or horse stable bedding. It is used in
commercial mushroom growing farms.
After the material is composted for several
weeks, it is sterilized and then placed into trays,
where commercial table mushrooms are grown.
Sharpe notes that the compost he acquires
is only used for 18 to 20 days, although others
say other compost may be used for three or
four weeks before it is exhausted. The compost
is then removed from the trays and the cycle
begins again.
Sharpe’s initial research led him to order
a truckload of mushroom compost from a
Campbell’s Soup Company farm in Georgia.
He applied it on half of a large pansy bed at
the fertilizer company where he worked, and
for “fairness,” put fertilizer on the other half
of the bed.
“In a week to 10 days, there was an absolute
dramatic difference in the size and appearance of
the pansies where the mushroom compost had
been applied,” he recalls. “It was dramatic.”
Although not completely enamored with
the results, the fertilizer company gave Sharpe
a go-ahead to test market the mushroom
compost. While successful in his marketing
efforts — one of the world’s largest retail stores
eventually began selling the bagged material —
the fertilizer company never fully embraced the
product, he says.
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But Sharpe recognized its potential and
talked frequently with his wife about opening
a company to sell bulk materials — mushroom
compost, topsoil and mulch — in South Carolina’s
m i d l a n d s, b a s i c a l ly
the center of the state.
Thus was born Dixie
L a n d s c ap e S u p p ly o n
Feb. 1, 1997, which was
run by Debra Sharpe while
her husband continued
working at the fertilizer
company. By September of
that year, Dixie Landscape
was doing so well that
Sharpe quit his job — he
had spent 20-plus years in
the corporate world — to
devote full-time to Dixie
Landscape.
I n i t i a l l y, t h e
mushroom compost came
f r o m t h e C a m p b e l l ’s
f a r m i n G e o rg i a . Wh e n t h at f a c i l i t y
closed, he sourced the material from
mushroom growers in Pennsylvania — which
he describes as the mushroom growing capital
of the world — and also arranged to have the
material trucked from there to distributors.
Mushroom compost is basically a waste
product, often called Spent Mushroom Substrate,
from the growing of mushrooms. And there is
plenty of it to spread around.
According to the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, some 862 million pounds of
mushroom crop were sold in 2010-2011, up
9 percent from the 2009-2010 season. Those sales
totaled more than $1 billion.
In those early days, when the Sharpes were
selling retail, they created Dixie Mix, which
was a special blend of mushroom compost and
other materials. The registered, patented and
trademarked product was promoted for use in
raised bed gardens and turned out to be one of
the most popular materials in their operation.
“It took us several years to develop Dixie
Mix as a weed-free soil, not a soil amendment,”
Sharpe says. “You could plant whatever you
wanted to plant in it without having to add
any other fertilizer or any other amendments
to it.”
Other products sold at the time, in addition
to the mushroom compost and topsoil, included
bulk hardwood mulch, pine bark nuggets, pine
bark mulch and cypress mulch.
The Sharpes closed the retail part of their
business in October 2011 and now sell strictly
wholesale.
A key to the success of the business is the
fact that Sharpe has built a 15-year relationship
with a trucking company to ship the compost
nationwide.
“Mushroom compost is a very inexpensive
material,” he notes. “The big problem is the
freight cost. Anybody who
lives close to a mushroom
farm could probably drive
over in their pickup truck
and pick it up for nothing
because they want to get rid
of it. It’s a waste product
for the mushroom farm.”
Sharpe says several
companies handling his
mushroom compost also
blend it with other materials
for use in raised beds or for
top dressing lawns.
“Mushroom compost
is not topsoil, rather an
excellent compost useful
to improve soil health and
plant growth,” notes a study
by two Penn State University researchers.
“. . . Fresh mushroom compost applied
to soil or incorporated into soil has many
benefits: improves soil structure, provides
plant nutrients, increases plant nutrient
availability, increases soil microbial populations,
increases soil cation exchange capacity, increases
plant root structure, increases soil aeration,
improves soil water status, and reduces soil
compaction,” they wrote in their study Plant
Nutrients and Fresh Mushroom Compost.
“Fresh mushroom compost is a viable
‘green’ product as an organic soil amendment
and fertilizer for crop production systems and
other land management issues,” they wrote.
Another study, which we reported on in
a previous issue of Soil & Mulch Producer
News, found that blending mushroom compost
with landscape mulch resulted in “a successful
blend that can be applied in a commercial or
residential setting.
“In this green market of environmental
and cost-conscious consumers, blending fresh
mushroom compost with landscape mulch
offers many valuable benefits,” the report
stated. “This economic and green solution to
pesky artillery fungi simultaneously adds plant
nutrients to landscaped beds, reducing the need
to fertilize, and increases the health of the soil
and landscape plants.”
Sharpe describes his mushroom compost
as organic, although it is not certified as such.
Having it certified as organic would not only be
costly, but difficult in having to trace back the
various components making up the compost,
he says. He notes that the compost he sells is
“Mushroom
compost is not
topsoil, rather
an excellent
compost useful
to improve
soil health and
plant growth.”
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shipped directly from the mushroom growers
and never touches the ground.
“We do not alter the composition of this
product in any way,” he adds.
He stresses that his mushroom compost
is 100 percent weed free, noting that it is
completely sterilized before being used in
growing trays. He tries to educate users that
after applying mushroom compost and tilling
the soil, any weeds that might appear in their
gardens or lawns were already in the soil.
Sharpe explains that his mushroom compost
is so rich that it feeds not only the vegetable
plants and flowers, but also any weeds that might
be in the same location. Consequently, some
people think the compost is full of weeds, when
in fact it is not. It’s only providing nutrition for
the weeds that were already there.
Sharpe also downplays concerns about
high soluble salt content in the compost. His
opinion in supported by Mike Fidanza of Penn
State University, who was involved in the other
studies mentioned.
“. . . Research at Penn State shows that good
quality mushroom compost does not contain
soluble salt concentrations high enough to impede
turf grass seed germination or cause damage to
an existing turf stand,” he says in a report posted
on the American Mushroom Institute’s web
site. “Also, when mushroom compost is tilled
or incorporated into the soil, the salt
concentration is diluted greatly, and irrigation
or natural rainfall will further reduce salt
concentrations by leaching those salts from the
root zone.”
Sharpe recommends applying at least a
3-inch layer of mushroom compost to soil, then
tilling it in 5-6 inches deep.
“Then plant your plants and water them
regularly,” he says. “You won’t need to add
anything else to your beds for the entire
growing season.”
He warns against planting directly into
the compost, since it is too rich for new plants.
Mushroom compost is considered non-burning
when incorporated into the soil, or for top
dressing existing plants that have an established
root system.
Sharpe warns purchasers of bagged
compost products to make sure they are
getting the real thing.
“There is a tremendous difference in a
variety of bagged products,” he says. “I have
found over the years people will bag a product
and call it manure or mushroom compost and
it’s nothing more than a watered down material
with a little bit of manure or mushroom compost
in it. If it’s a true bag of mushroom compost,
it will have a pretty offensive odor because it
is still breaking down while inside the bag. By
decomposing in the bag it creates a gas, which
would be expelled and the odor is atrocious.”
Despite the smell, Sharpe remains an
evangelist for mushroom compost.
“It’s my duty to introduce it to people across
the country and let them provide it to their
customers locally so they can have a feather in
their cap as well,” he says.
He admits he still has a way to go.
“It’s surprising to me, especially after having
been doing this for so many years, to see so many
people who have never heard of mushroom
compost. They don’t know what it is.
But, he adds quickly, “It does miraculous
things for any kind of plant.”
(For more information, visit Sharpe Landscape
Supply’s web site at www.mushroomcompost.com
or call Sharpe at 800-996-9360.)
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Industry News
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The 41st MSC Annual Meeting is scheduled for
October 30-November 1 at the Sheraton Downtown
Hotel in Atlanta, GA. Make plans to attend.
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In-Plant Training Program
T
he Mulch & Soil Council ventured into online distance education
in December with the launch of an Internet webinar series.
The objective was to provide an updated industry program to
conveniently train production plant personnel on key operational
issues at minimum loss of time and productivity.
The program was a joint event between the Council and the
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Office of
Weights & Measures (OWM) in Gaithersburg, MD. The webinar
was divided into four, 90-minutes presentations given over 2 days
including:
Part 1: Product Labeling Regulations (NIST)
Part 2: Package Fill Regulations (NIST)
Part 3: Product Variability & Bulk Loads (MSC)
Part 4: Quality Control (MSC)
Each session presented in the on-line program was captured via
Fuze Meeting technology as a narrated slide presentation for later
playback. The objective is to avoid costs and loss of productivity by
eliminating travel and delivering educational programming directly to
plant sites as follows:
• Each plant location can purchase any program segment for a
fee.
• A broadband Internet connection must be provided by the
participating plant site to view the on-screen presentations.
• Each site can choose to provide audio speakers and large
computer monitors or projection screens to accommodate as
many employees as they wish to participate. The number of
participants does not increase the site cost for the program;
so, the more people that can participate at each location, the
better.
• Each site is provided an access code to sign-in to the recorded
training sessions.
• With segmented recordings, how many and who view EACH
presentation can be determined by the plant site to customize
the training for those most in need of each segment’s content.
• Every plant location that purchases the sessions will have free
access to the recordings for 6 months for any additional site
education and new employee training.
For further information on the In-Plant Training Program, contact
the MSC at info@mulchandsoilcouncil.org.
Spring Industry Promotion
I
n December, The MSC conducted a special, on-line media event
hosting over 70 members of the Garden Writers Association.
The purpose of the media webinar was to introduce garden
communicators representing newspapers, websites, boggers and other
consumer information channels to the Mulch & Soil Council, MSC’s
product certification program and the latest consumer information
video on using premium mulch and soil products.
MSC Certification Spokesman Joe Lamp’l of Growing A Greener
World on the American Public Television Network explained the
Council resources and the benefits of using certified mulch & soil
products. MSC Certification Director Dr. Bill Fonteno reviewed
the development of the program and MSC certification and testing
procedures. MSC Executive Director Bob LaGasse reviewed retailer
participation and fielded questions in an interactive chat with the
media. Four more media webinars are planned for 2012 focusing on
educating garden communicators and Master Gardeners on product
use and product certification.
Legislative News
T
he present administration isn’t expected to produce much legislation
in the coming year. However, we cannot completely rule out the
idea that a 2012 Farm Bill might emerge as a ploy to get the farm
vote. MSC is monitoring the progress of the Agriculture Committee
to make sure the industry doesn’t get blind-sided by another energy
provision that would shift existing wood fiber markets.
EPA is also continuing its drive to finalize the drastically increased
health impact assessment for arsenic. Industry and agency opposition
has slowed the process significantly, but it is still alive. If EPA gets
its way, the new limit on health exposure to arsenic will be below the
natural background levels in soils across the country. The negative
impact on potting and landscape soils would be huge.
No one expects asbestos legislation to surface this year, but
advocates for a ban are still very active. Current estimates suggest
that 20% of natural soils contain non-asbestiform forms of asbestos
that represent no health hazard. Unfortunately, the non-asbestiform
minerals are often misclassified as asbestiform (unhealthful) minerals,
and ban proponents want both forms banned, regardless of their health
impact. That would present another challenge to the mulch and soil
industry even though no health treat actually exists.
New BioStimulant Coalition Formed
L
ast August, the Biostimulant Coalition was formed as a non-profit
organization of interested parties cooperating to proactively address
regulatory and legislative issues involving biological or naturallyderived additives and / or similar products, including but not limited
to bacterial or microbial inoculants, biochemical materials, amino
acids, humic acids, fulvic acid, seaweed extract and other similar
materials. The Coalition proposes to offer a new definition of an overall
biostimulant product category to state regulators at the February
meeting of the Association of American Plant Food Control Officials
(AAPFCO) in San Antonio, TX.
Biostimulant (n.) – A material derived from biological origin that, when
applied to a plant, soil or growing media, enhances plant nutritional
utilization or reduces nutrient losses to the environment, but is not
regulated as a fertilizer or a pesticide.
Subcategories of Biostimulants:
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he Biostimulant Coalition’s working list of subcategories of the
term biostimulant is below. These could include biostimulant
products containing:
Anti-oxidants
Amino acids materials
Enzymatic extracts
Fulvic acid materials
Humic acid materials
Microbial inoculants
Microbial soil amendments
Mycorrhizal fungi
Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR)
Phytohormones
Seaweed extract materials
For more information on the Biostimulant Coalition, contact the
MSC office at 703-257-0111 or execdir@mulchandsoilcouncil.org.
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Soil
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Willows and Poplars Irrigated with Wastewater
are Harvest as Fuel for Power Plant
W
hitecourt, Alberta—Whitecourt has grown a biomass crop of willows and poplars on
seven hectares of land next to the town sewage plant, with the idea of using the trees
as fuel and as a way of using treated wastewater and sludge from the adjacent sewage
plant. Whitecourt offered the site to researchers in 2006, as well as an electric connection and
unlimited supply of waste water for underground irrigation. Five varieties of willow and two
of poplar were planted on irrigated and non-irrigated land. This will be the second harvest
from this site, and the irrigated trees were 30% larger than the ones that weren’t irrigated. It is
expected that they will be a good fuel source for the town’s wood-burning power plant.
Researchers are studying the effects of applying the waste products as a natural fertilizer. The
wastewater is highly treated effluent that could be discharged into the river. Using soil moisture
sensors, trees are only irrigated when they were so dry they needed extra water. The trees are
processed through a chipper, and the chips are then dried in the yard of Edmonton’s Northern
Forestry Centre, which is testing a new drying technique adopted from Ireland—pumping air
through slotted pipes under the pile—that has been modified by a local grain-drying firm. The
chips will be studied and graded at a national forestry research lab to determine their quality.
Part of a federally led research program, the province led the way with the Whitecourt
test site, but now Alberta has four other locations where this is being done, with hopes that
other provinces will follow suit. The Alberta Rural Organic Waste to Energy Network has been
formed to exchange ideas and encourage others. There are now 24 municipalities, companies or
government departments working on this project, including an irrigation firm, a nursery company
and a laboratory.
An alternative way to treat wastewater is needed, as most areas with fewer than 5,000 residents
still use lagoons and primary treatment systems. Larger cities like Whitecourt and Edmonton have
sophisticated systems, but must still dispose of sludge. Edmonton is using sludge with trees on
its test site. These trees produce biomass that can be burned for heating or to generate electricity,
or in the future could be used in bio-products such as chemicals and drugs.
Keep America Beautiful
and U.S. Composting
Council Announce
Partnership
N
ational nonprofits Keep America Beautiful
(KAB) and the U.S. Composting Council
(USCC) have announced that the
organizations will join forces on efforts to increase
waste reduction through composting education
and activities nationwide.
Under the agreement, KAB and USCC will
share educational resources and seek to identify
collaborative opportunities that benefit their
constituencies and the general public by promoting
awareness of the important role composting plays in
waste reduction, improved soil structure, improved
water quality and reduced soil erosion.
“Our organization’s goal has long been to
engage all people in reducing waste and recycling or
reusing the products that touch their lives on a daily
basis,” said Matthew M. McKenna, president and
CEO of Keep America Beautiful, Inc. “Composting
organic residuals can significantly reduce landfill
impacts while creating a healthier ecosystem. This
partnership represents a win-win for communities
and the environment.
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Forest Structure, Biodiversity and Function May Be Lost Even
as Form Remains
A
ccording to a report in sciencedaily.
com, a forest may look like a forest, have
many of the same trees that used to live
there, but still lose the ecological, economic or
cultural values that once made it what it was,
researchers suggest in articles in the Proceeding
of the National Academy of Sciences.
One study outlines services and functions
that are disappearing in mountain ash forests
in Australia and a commentary in the journal
pointed out that many of the same issues are
in play in forests of the Pacific Northwest, the
grasslands of the Great Basin, and other areas.
Beneath a veneer of forest health, dramatic
reductions may be taking place in such functions
as carbon sequestration, water yields, wildlife
protection and biodiversity of species, said
scientists from Oregon State University and the
University of Washington.
They called for more attention to natural
processes, restoration of the broad range of
forest structures needed to maintain the original
ecosystem, and reassessments of policies and
management practices as needed. In particular,
the article questioned any continued harvest
in old growth forests and salvage logging after
wildfires or wind storms.
“If you just look at a forest, it may look
about the same as it used to,” said K. Norman
Johnson, a distinguished professor of forest
ecosystems and society at OSU. “But we’re losing
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them without really knowing it.
“It’s late in the game, and there’s no easy
way out,” Johnson said. “We need to recognize
this, help to better inform the public, and take
the steps both with science and policy that may
be required.”
Traditional practices in forest management
for wood production, such as clear-cutting, site
preparation and replanting, tend to produce
young forests with uniform structures and low
diversity. Large, old trees with cavities, essential
to many wildlife species are often absent. And
increasingly, even young but very diverse forest
stages are becoming scarce.
“Because the young forests are dominated
by the same tree species, how could there be
a problem?” the scientists said in the report.
“The problem is, of course, that critical forest
structures and entire stages in forest development
can be effectively eliminated from regional
landscapes.”
The researchers in these journal articles call
this a “landscape trap,” a complete shift to new
ecological processes that bear little resemblance
to those of the past. The dry forests of Eastern
Oregon, Johnson said, are a perfect example.
Where small fires would once burn frequently
and clear out undergrowth but allow large trees
to survive, the forests are now crowded, thick
with undergrowth, prone to severe fire, re-growth
and a repeat of that catastrophic pattern.
Allowing burned forests to recover naturally
would be a positive contribution to development
of both diverse understories and complex forest
structures, the analysis said, even though the full
process may take centuries to reach fruition.
Recovery in some areas may be much faster
than that, depending on the situation, Johnson
said, but the conditions of many forests will be
difficult from which to recover.
“If irreversible and socially undesirable
long-term changes to regional landscapes and
societies are potential consequences, major
changes in policies and practices may be
appropriate,” the scientists concluded.
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M
any dairy producers are looking for alternatives such as sand
and recycled manure solids to replace bovine stall bedding
materials, which are increasingly expensive and hard to obtain.
But though sand is seen as ideal bedding, not all producers are able to
convert to sand bedding as it may make manure-management more
difficult. One answer may be found in an observational study on 38 dairy
farms in Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa that were using
recycled manure solids for bedding free-stalls. The researchers wanted to
find out what management practices and bedding characteristics were
associated with bulk tank somatic cell count (SCC) and evaluate animal
welfare in these operations.
The University of Minnesota and University of Minnesota Extension
researchers documented various aspects of herd management, including
how solids were obtained and managed; their bedding practices and
bedding; and how milk and feed samples were collected. The researchers
found that excellent cow preparation at milking time, sanitation of milking
equipment, cow hygiene, adequate dry cow housing and bedding/stall
management were critical in maintaining a low SCC while successfully
using manure solids for bedding. They also found the type of manure solids
used—digested, raw or composted—had no association with SCC.
It is important to keep stall bedding as dry as possible to minimize
exposure to environmental mastitis pathogens, and keeping stall bedding
dry can be done with use of a blower, good ventilation, and adding
equipment to remove moisture after separation. The study also found
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NEWS
BUYERS’ GUIDE
Directory
CATEGORY LISTINGS
Bagging &
Packaging
Systems
Amadas Industries
Big White Bag
Concept Products Corp
Cube Machinery
Hamer LLC
Lachenmeier ApS
Premier Tech Chronos
Rethceif Packaging
Rotochopper Inc.
Slootweg Machinefabriek B.V.
Sparta Innovation Inc.
Biodegradable
Plastics (Bags)
Al-Pack Enterprises Ltd
BASF Corp / Biodegradables
Biogroup USA (BioBag)
Cortec Corporation
Ecosafe Zero Waste
Fortune Plastics Inc.
Heritage Bag Co.
Nature Friendly Products
Northern Technologies Intl Corp- Natur-Tec®
Pak-Sher
Telles / Mirel Plastics
Coloring
Systems &
Colorants
Amerimulch
Colorbiotics
EarthShades
Florida Coastal Colors
Mulch Mfg, Inc. / Nature’s Reflections
Rotochopper Inc.
T.H. Glennon Co. Inc.
Universal Equip. Mfg
Compost
Covers &
Geosynthetic
Liners
CV Compost
Gore Cover Systems
Managed Organic Recycling Inc.
Poly-Flex Inc.
Compost
Turners
ALLU Group Inc.
Apollo Equipment
Farmer Automatic
of America
HCL Machine Works
Midwest Bio-Systems, Inc.
Resource Recovery Systems Intl.
SCARAB Mfg
Wildcat Mfg /
Vermeer Corp
Dust & Odor
Control
Equipment &
Products
Air Phaser
Environmental Ltd
Buffalo Turbine
Dust Control Technology
NCM Odor Control
Odotech Inc.
OMI Industries
Fabric
Structures &
Storage Silos
Accu-Steel, Inc.
Calhoun Super Structures Ltd
ClearSpan Fabric Structures
Guard-All Building Solutions
Legacy Building Solutions
Natural Light Fabric Structures, LLC
Norseman Structures
Sollenberger Silos, LLC
Sprung Instant Structures Inc.
Summit Structures
XL Shelter
Food Waste
Containers
BiobiN®™
North America
Durabac Inc.
Ecosafe Zero Waste
Rehrig Pacific Co.
Toter Inc.
Food Waste
Recycling
Systems
Advanced Biotechnology Inc.
EC All Ltd / Big Hanna
Ensol Waste Mgmt.
Green Mountain Technologies
Somat Company
Totally Green
Grinders,
Chippers &
Shredders
Apollo Equipment
Bandit Industries Inc.
Continental Biomass Industries
CW Mill Equipment Co. / HogZilla Grinders
Diamond Z Mfg
Doppstadt US
DuraTech Industries
Fecon Inc.
Komptech USA Inc.
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2012
Blanchard Machinery Company
Brodie Ag and Industrial Inc.
Pacific Rock & Recycle Equipment Co.
Rock and Recycling Solutions
Doppstadt US EZ-Screen / Argus Industrial Company
Fecon Inc.
Hein, Lehmann US LLC
McCloskey Intl. Ltd
Komptech USA Inc.
OMH ProScreen USA
Orbit Screens, Inc.
Powerscreen / Terex
REMU USA Inc.
Screen Machine Inds.
Screen USA Inc.
Terra Select Inc.
Universal Equip. Mfg
West Salem Machinery Wildcat Mfg /
Vermeer Corp
Packaging
Products &
Services
Soil, Mulch,
Compost &
Peat Producers
Spectrum Technologies, Inc.
Grinders,
Chippers &
Shredders
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Morbark Inc.
Peterson /
An Astec Inds. Co.
RAYCO Manufacturing
Rotochopper Inc.
Screen USA Inc.
Universal Refiner Corp
Vermeer Corporation
Warren & Baerg Mfg
West Salem Machinery Loaders
(Skid Steer
& Wheel)
Apollo Equipment
Bobcat Company
Caterpillar Inc.
Mixing &
Spreading
Equipment
Cube Machinery
Kuhn North America Inc.
Patz Corporation
Roto-Mix LLC
Supreme International
Monitoring /
Measuring
Systems &
Software
BUYERS’ GUIDE
Mulch Blower
Trucks
Express Blower, Inc.
Finn Corporation
Peterson /
An Astec Inds. Co.
New
Equipment
Distributors
Balcan Plastics /
First Film Extruding
Greif, Inc.
Nature’s Choice
Peel Plastic Products
Trinity Packaging Corp
Plastic Removal
Systems
Hawker Corp /
Airlift Separator
Cube Machinery
Demista Instruments
Sage Metering Inc.
Screening
Equipment
(Trommel &
Vibrating)
ALLU Group Inc.
Amadas Industries
Apollo Equipment
American Soil Amendment
Products
ASB Greenworld, Inc.
Buckeye Resources Inc.
Cedar Grove Composting
Florida Pine Straw Supply Co.
Forestry Resources, Inc.
Garden-Ville
Hammond Farms Landscape Supply
Harvest Garden Pro
Kellogg Garden Products
Kurtz Brothers Inc. Lane Forest Products
Living Earth /
The Letco Group LLC
Mulch Manufacturing
Natural Earth Technology Inc.
Nature’s Choice Inc.
Ohio Mulch
Oldcastle Inc.
P. R. Russell Brentwood Distribution
R.L. Shane Company
Rexius, Inc.
SB Mulch Inc.
SGP Mulch & Soils
of America
Smith Bros Inc.
Sun Gro Horticulture
Superior Cedar Products Inc.
SureGreen Mulch
Suwannee River Mulch
Swanson Bark
& Wood Products
T.H. Blue Inc.
Vision Recycling
Stacking
Conveyors
EZ-Screen / Argus Industrial Company
McCloskey Intl. Ltd
Patz Corporation
Scotia Machinery
Screen Machine Industries, Inc.
Screen USA Inc.
Trade
Associations &
Organizations
Association of Compost Producers
Biodegradable Products Institute
attention: readers!
Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss Assoc.
Composting Council
of Canada
Mulch & Soil Council
Organics Materials Review Institute
U.S. Composting Council
Transport
Trailers &
Automatic
Floor Systems
Apollo Equipment
Hallco Industries Inc.
J&J Truck Bodies
& Trailers
Keith Mfg Co.
SmithCo Side-Dump Trailers
Travis Body
& Trailer Inc.
Trinity Trailer Mfg Inc.
Western Trailers Co.
Used
Equipment
Apollo Equipment
EarthSaver Equipment
GrinderCrusherScreen.
com
Peninsula Equipment
Used & New
Pallets
Litco International
Wear Parts &
Replacement
Screens
CBT Wear Parts Inc.
CW Mill Equipment Co. / ArmorHog
Grinder Wear Parts Inc.
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Accu-Steel, Inc.
Templeton, IA
(877) 338-6936
www.asicoverbuildings.com
Advanced Biotechnology Inc.
Columbia, MD
(800) 426-0764
www.abionline.com
BUYERS’ GUIDE
Company Index
American Soil Amendment
Products
1450 Tierra Rejada Rd.
Simi Valley, CA 93065
(805) 578-0052
asap85@pacbell.net
Kurt Mikell, Owner
www.americansoil.org
Bandit Industries Inc.
Remus, MI
(800) 952-0178
www.banditchippers.com
Buckeye Resources Inc.
Springfield, OH
(800) 443-8203
www.buckeyeresources.com
BASF Corp / Biodegradables
Wyandotte, MI
www.bioplastics.basf.com
Buffalo Turbine
Springville, NY
(716) 592-2700
www.buffaloturbine.com
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Air Phaser Environmental Ltd
Surrey, BC Canada
(604) 308-7435
www.airphaser.com
ALLU Group Inc.
Teterboro, NJ
(800) 939-2558
www.allu.net
ALLU Finland Ltd. designs, manufactures
and markets products with the ALLU
trademark for environmental care,
improving recycling methods and the
processing of different materials. Our
main products are Screener Crushers,
Stabilisation Systems and compacting
plates. See ad on pg 19
Al-Pack Enterprises Ltd
Moncton, NB Canada
(800) 551-7225
www.al-pack.com
Amadas Industries
1100 Holland Rd.
Suffolk, VA 23434
(757) 539-0231
tandrews@amadas.com
Tiny Andrews, Inds. Sales Mgr.
www.amadas.com
Amadas Industries’ current product lines
include pull-type and self-propelled peanut
combines, peanut diggers, Reel Rain®
irrigators, cotton stalk puller/choppers,
round cotton module handlers and a
line of industrial equipment for both the
horticultural and recycling industries.
See ad on pg 6
14 Soil & Mulch Producer News Calhoun Super Structures Ltd
Tara, ON Canada
(800) 265-3994
www.calhoun.ca
Amerimulch
2055 Enterprise Pkwy
Twinsburg, OH 44087
(888) 556-3304
rockyh@amerimulch.com
Rocky Hatfield, Inside Sales
www.amerimulch.com
Amerimulch® has long had a spirit of
innovation and thinking beyond the
status quo. From our 50,000 squarefoot headquarters in Twinsburg, Ohio,
we’re continuously creating, testing and
improving industry-leading equipment,
Heartland® Enriched Colorants and mulchbusiness methods.
Apollo Equipment
2062 – 20th Ave. SE
Largo, FL 33771
(800) 982-2844
info@apolloequipment.net
Wayne Brown, Exec. VP
www.apolloequipment.net
ASB Greenworld, Inc.
4236 Hickory Grove Rd.
Valdosta, GA 31603
(877) 476-4444
trivas@asbgreenworld.com
Triva Saxon, Sales Support
Specialist
www.asbgreenworld.com
Association of Compost
Producers
Julian, CA (619) 992-8389
www.healthysoil.org
B
Balcan Plastics /
First Film Extruding
Saint Leonard, QC Canada
(877) 422-5226
www.balcan.com
Big White Bag
28 Aero Rd. NE
Calgary, AB T2E 8P6
Canada
(877) 659-2247
rob@bigwhitebag.com
Rob Mudd
www.bigwhitebag.com
Extra Revenue is in the Bag! Delivering your
materials direct to the customer in Super
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in the BigWhiteBag.com network. No fees!
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BiobiN®™ North America
Chester, PA (855) 874-2235
www.biobin.us
Biodegradable Products
Institute
New York, NY
(888) 274-5646
www.bpiworld.org
Canadian Sphagnum
Peat Moss Assoc.
St. Albert, AB Canada
(780) 460-8280
www.peatmoss.com
Caterpillar Inc.
Peoria, IL
(309) 675-1000
www.caterpillar.com
CBT Wear Parts Inc.
Richland Center, WI
(888) 228-3625
www.cbtwearparts.com
Cedar Grove Composting
Maple Valley, WA
(877) 764-5748
www.cedar-grove.com
ClearSpan Fabric Structures
South Windsor, CT
(866) 643-1010
www.clearspan.com
BIOgroupUSA, Inc. / BioBag
Palm Harbor, FL
(727) 789-1646
www.biobagusa.com
Blanchard Machinery
Company / IronMart
3151 Charleston Hwy
West Columbia, SC 29172
(803) 791-7100
www.blanchardmachinery.com
See ad on pg 15
Bobcat Company
West Fargo, ND
800-743-4340
www.bobcat.com
Ayr, ON Canada
(519) 632-1190
www.brodieagandindustrial.ca
Colorbiotics
Ames, Iowa
(888) 663-6980
www.colorbiotics.com
Colorbiotics is an independent business
unit of Becker Underwood, an international
developer of bioagronomic and specialty
products founded in 1982. Colorbiotics is
also an industry leader in the research,
development, production, sale, and support
of colorants and coloring systems for a
variety of applications.
See ad on pg 22
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Composting Council
of Canada
Toronto, ON Canada
(877) 571-4769
www.compost.org
BUYERS’ GUIDE
CV Compost
245 Ten Stones Circle
Charlotte, VT 05445
(877) 406-2398
info@cvcompost.com
Steven Wisbaum
www.cvcompost.com
Paoli, PA
(610) 722-0830
www.conceptproducts.com
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Demista Instruments
Arlington Heights, IL
(847) 439-6857
www.demistainstruments.com
Diamond Z Mfg
Caldwell, ID
(800) 949-2383
www.diamondz.com
Durabac Inc.
Granby, QC Canada
(800) 565-1723
www.durabac.ca
DuraTech Industries
Jamestown, ND
(701) 252-4601
www.duratechindustries.net
Dust Control Technology
Peoria, IL
(800) 707-2204
www.dustboss.com
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Continental Biomass
Industries
Newton, NH
(603) 382-0556
www.cbi-inc.com
CBI manufactures grinding, chipping
and shredding solutions that Fuel the
Future™ of the businesses we serve
and the environment we live in. This
includes portable wood grinders and wood
chippers that turn logs, forestry debris and
wood waste into biofuel, mulch and other
useable products. See ad on pg 24
Cortec Corporation
St. Paul, MN
(800) 426-7832
www.cortecvci.com
Cube Machinery
2704-A Rue Principal
Industrial Park
Tracadie-Sheila, NB E1X 1A1
Canada
(506) 393-6000
robert.leclair@cubeautomation.com
Robert LeClair, Director
www.cubemachinery.com
Cube Machinery supplies soil plant
machinery and advanced productivity
systems to factories across North America.
From Florida to the Canadian Mid West,
from the Pacific Coast to the heart of the
peat industry in Eastern Canada, we have
supplied engineering, machinery and
complete production lines.
CW Mill Equipment Co /
ArmorHog
14 Commerce Dr.
Sabetha, KS 66534
(800) 743-3491
sales@armorhog.com
Brian Bergman, Parts Sales
www.armorhog.com
ArmorHog® is focused on providing
top quality, high performance, custom
made, long-life hammermill screens, tips,
hammers, and other replacement parts for
all brands and models of industrial grinders.
Our tips are made using a unique blend of
carbide called NitroGrit™, a proprietary
blend of carbide found to best suit grinding
applications.
CW Mill Equipment Co. /
HogZilla Grinders
14 Commerce Dr.
Sabetha, KS 66534
(800) 743-3491
hogzilla@cwmill.com
Tim Wenger, President/
Sales Manager
www.hogzilla.com
Diesel or electric powered HogZilla®
MONSTER Tub & Horizontal Grinders ranging
from 565-2000HP. Options including selfpropelled track drive and self-loading units
available. HogZilla® MONSTER Grinders
provide the highest production rates for
solid waste reduction, wood recycling, land
clearing, construction demolition, mulch
production, tire processing, or any other
tough grinding application.
Doppstadt US
Avon, OH
(440) 937-3225
www.doppstadtus.com
DoppstadtUS is committed to bringing
the superior design, engineering and
performance of Doppstadt brand recycling
and processing equipment to the American
marketplace. All Doppstadt manufactured
products are built with precision German
engineering, to provide the finest quality
machinery available to the industry.
See ad on pg 13
EarthSaver Equipment
P.O. Box 8898
Kalispell, MT 59904
(406) 752-6290
sales@earthsaverequipment.com
www.earthsaverequipment.com
See ad on pg 27
EarthShades
Cincinnati, OH
(513) 271-3375
www.mulchdye.com
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E Continued
BUYERS’ GUIDE
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Ensol Waste Mgmt
Mississauga, ON Canada
(647) 977-1128
www.ensolwm.com
Fecon Inc.
Lebanon, OH
(800) 528-3113
www.fecon.com
Finn Corporation
Fairfield, OH
(800) 543-7166
www.finncorp.com
EC All Ltd / Big Hanna
8656 Rockridge Ct.
Macedonia, OH 44056
(612) 237-0831
eskil.eriksson@ec-all-ltd.com
Eskil Eriksson, CEO
www.bighanna.com
Big Hanna is a Swedish, on-site, invessel, aerobic composting machine. The
automated, continuous process produces
pathogen free, ready compost from food
wastes, including fish, meat and dairy
solids. Big Hanna can operate in warm
and cold climates, indoors and outdoors.
Capacities range from 330 to 2,600 lbs.
per week.
Ecosafe Zero Waste
Surrey, BC Canada
(604) 560-5133
www.ecosafezerowaste.com
Express Blower, Inc
Eugene, OR
(800) 285-7227
www.expressblower.com
Express Blower, Inc. is a leading manufacturer
and distributor of pneumatic blowing
equipment. Invented over 50 years ago
and refined through practical experience
and innovation, Express Blower™ owners
provide material delivery and installation to
the erosion control, construction, landscape
and agricultural industries.
See ad on pg 8
EZ-Screen /
Argus Industrial Company
Pontiac, MI
(248) 745-5828
www.ez-screen.com
Farmer Automatic of America
PO Box 39
Register, GA 30452
(916) 681-2763
dleavell@farmerautomatic.com
David Leavell, Sales & Mktg Mgr
www.farmerautomatic.com
Farmer Automatic’s CompostCat is proving
to be a tremendous asset to farmers with
numerous benefits. The most substantial
benefits are the control of flies and rodents.
Knowing that fly and rodent control is
critical to a healthy, disease and salmonella
free environment is making the CompostCat
an excellent choice in this economy.
Florida Coastal Colors
W Melbourne, FL
(321) 288 5856
www.floridacoastalcolors.com
Florida Pine Straw Supply Co.
Mayo, FL
(800) 386-1514
www.floridapinestraw.com
Forestry Resources, Inc.
Fort Myers, FL
866-GoMulch
www.gomulch.com
Fortune Plastics Inc.
Old Saybrook, CT
(800) 243-0306
www.fortuneplastics.com
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Garden-Ville
Austin, TX
(888) 655-6115
www.garden-ville.com
Gore Cover Systems
Newark, DE
(888) 914-4673
www.gore.com
Bainbridge Island, WA
(802) 368-7291
www.compostingtechnology.com
BUYERS’ GUIDE
Hammond Farms
Landscape Supply
5834 Michigan Rd.
Dimondale, MI 48821
(517) 646-8698
cwalkington@hammondfarms.com
Cliff Walkington, General Mgr.
www.hammondfarms.com
Harvest Garden Pro
Milford, DE
(800) 235-7645
www.gardenpro.us
K
Living Earth /
The Letco Group LLC
Dallas, TX
(972) 869-4332
www.livingearth.net
Kellogg Garden Products
Carson, CA
(310) 830-2200
www.kellogggarden.com
M
Keith Mfg Co.
Madras, OR
(541) 475-3802
www.keithwalkingfloor.com
Komptech USA Inc.
Lafayette, CO
720-890-9090
www.komptechusa.com
Greif, Inc.
Delaware, OH
(740) 549-6000
www.greif.com
Kuhn North America Inc.
Brodhead, WI
(608) 897-2131
www.kuhnnorthamerica.com
Grinder Wear Parts Inc.
2062 – 20th Ave. SE
Largo, FL 33771
(800) 827-0401
info@grinderwearparts.com
Wayne Brown, Executive VP
www.grinderwearparts.com
Kurtz Brothers Inc. Independence, OH
(216) 986-7000
www.kurtz-bros.com
GrinderCrusherScreen.com
West Coast (971)-344-0001
East Coast (770) 433-2670
Guard-All Building Solutions
Dallas, TX
(877) 397-1594
www.guard-all.com
H
Hallco Industries Inc.
PO Box 505
Tillamook, OR 97141
(800) 542-5526
info@hallcoind.com
www.hallcoind.com
Hawker Corp / Airlift Separator
2111 Prairie Rd.
Eugene, OR 97402
(888) 345-9085
jimmy@airliftseparator.com
Jimmy Smith, Mfr Rep
www.airliftseparator.com
Innovation from Airlift Separator - a system
for reducing plastic and other lightweight
materials from compost and urban organic
waste. Airlift Separators are used by
recycling centers, municipal organic waste
facilities, and private compost and mulch
manufacturers, reclaiming urban green
waste and recycled wood as marketable
compost and mulch.
HCL Machine Works
15142 Merrill Ave.
Dos Palos, CA 93620
(209) 392-6103
casey@unwiredbb.com
www.compostturners.com
See ad on pg 27
Hein, Lehmann US LLC
Alpharetta, GA
(678) 566-1987
www.liwell.com
Hamer LLC
Plymouth, MN
(800) 927-4674
www.hamerinc.com
Hamer products offer faster, more accurate
packaging while keeping designs simple,
robust and easy to maintain. From our first
Hamer product launched in 1927 through
our complete line of bagging products and
systems, our greatest resource for product
innovation has always been our customers.
See ad on pg 7
Heritage Bag Co.
Carrollton, TX
(800) 527-2247
www.heritage-bag.com
J
J&J Truck Bodies & Trailers
10558 Somerset Pike
Somerset, PA 15501
(800) 598-8552
sales@jjbodies.com
Shahira Hoffman
www.jjbodies.com
L
Lachenmeier
Glenview, IL
(877) 859-7205
www.lachenmeier.com
Lane Forest Products
Eugene, OR
(888) 345-9085
www.laneforestproducts.com
McCloskey Intl. Ltd
Peterborough, ON Canada
(877) 876-6635
www.mccloskeyinternational.com
Since the company’s inception in 1986,
McCloskey International has been a
pioneer in trommel design and innovation.
McCloskey also manufacturers a remote
control 180 Degree Radial Stockpiling
Conveyor system, as well as vibratory
screeners.
See ad on pg 21
Midwest Bio-Systems, Inc.
Tampico, IL
(800) 689-0714
midwestbiosystems.com
Legacy Building Solutions
19500 County Rd. 142
South Haven, MN 55382
(320) 259-7126
www.legacybuildingsolutions.com
See ad on pg 9
Litco International
One Litco Drive
Vienna, OH 44473-0150
(877) 504-7954
www.litco.com
Litco International is your premier source
for cost-effective, environmentally friendly
presswood pallets, plastic pallets, dunnage
air bags, honeycomb void fill dunnage,
ISPM 15 export approved pallets, and
other related material handling products
designed to protect your valuable products
while in transit.
See ad on pg 25
Morbark Inc.
Winn, MI
(800) 831-0042
www.morbark.com
Morbark builds equipment that creates
opportunities in the forestry, recycling,
sawmill, bio-energy, and tree care markets.
Morbark equipment helps customers
harvest, process, and convert wood and
other organic materials into valuable,
useful, and environmentally sound
products.
See ad on pg 2
Mulch & Soil Council
Manassas, VA
(703) 257-0111 www.mulchandsoilcouncil.org
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BUYERS’ GUIDE
Odotech Inc.
Montreal, QC Canada
(514) 340-5250
www.odotech.com
Ohio Mulch
Columbus, OH
(614) 863-0445
www.ohiomulch.com
Mulch Manufacturing
Reynoldsburg, OH
(614) 864-4004
www.mulchmfg.com
Mulch Manufacturing is a leading producer
of packaged mulch products. Available
products include Cypress Rose, Cypress
All Bark, Cedar, two types of Hardwood,
Seven Types of Pine Bark, and three types of
colored mulches. We also produce our own
line of environmentally safe mulch colorant
called “Nature’s Reflections.”
See ad on pg 16
Oldcastle Inc.
Atlanta, GA
(800) 899-8455
www.oldcastle.com
N
Natural Earth Technology Inc.
Rusk, TX
(903) 683-2195
Orbit Screens, Inc.
Delhi, IA
(563) 922-9230
www.orbitscreens.com
Natural Light Fabric
Structures, LLC
Jordan, MN
(888) 708-3272
www.nlfabric.com
Organics Materials
Review Institute
Eugene, OR
(541) 343-7600
www.omri.org
Nature Friendly Products
Beachwood, OH (800) 321-4804
www.nfpco.com
Nature’s Choice Inc.
Glennville, GA
(912) 645-3518
www.barkwiththebest.com
Nature’s Reflections /
Mulch Manufacturing
Reynoldsburg, OH
(866) 466-9134
www.natures-reflections.net
See ad on pg 16
NCM Odor Control
South River, NJ
(800) 957-6543
www.ncmodorcontrol.com
Norseman Structures
Saskatoon, SK Canada
(855) 385-2782
www.norsemanstructures.com
Natur-Tec® – Northern
Technologies Intl Corp
Circle Pines, MN
(763) 404-8700
www.natur-tec.com
18 Soil & Mulch Producer News Rehrig Pacific Co.
Los Angeles, CA
(800) 421-6244
www.rehrigpacific.com
OMH ProScreen USA
Chattaroy, WA
(877) 254-7903
www.omhproscreen.com
OMI Industries
Long Grove, IL
(800) 662-6367
www.odormanagement.com
Peterson / An Astec Inds. Co.
Eugene OR
(541) 689-6520
www.petersoncorp.com
Peterson manufactures a line of horizontal
feed wood grinders, with production rates
up to 150 tons per hour. With our line of
blower trucks, Peterson has extended its
reach into the soil erosion and landscape
markets, building trucks designed for
distributing bark, mulch, compost, and soil
amendments.
See ad on pg 6
Poly-Flex Inc.
Grand Prairie, TX
(888) 765-9359
www.poly-flex.com
REOTEMP Instrument Corp
San Diego, CA
(858) 784-0710
www.reotemp.com
Resource Recovery
Systems Intl.
Sterling, CO
(970) 522-0663
www.rrskw.com
P
P. R. Russell Brentwood
Distribution
Brentwood, NH
(603) 772-4060
www.prmulch.com
Pacific Rock & Recycle
Equipment Co.
Gig Harbor, WA
(877) 211-2699
www.pacificrockandrecycle.com
Pak-Sher
Kilgore, TX
(800) 642-2295
www.paksher.com
Patz Corporation
Pound, WI
(920) 897-2251
www.patzcorp.com
Peel Plastic Products
Brampton, ON Canada
(905) 456-3660
www.peelplastics.com
Peninsula Equipment
Lakeland, FL
(888) 387-6500
www.peninsulaequipment.com
REMU USA Inc.
Old Orchard Beach, ME
(888) 600-0018
www.remu.fi
REMU Ltd is a leading supplier of innovative
screening and excavation systems in
Europe, with more than 20 years experience
of manufacturing screening products. We
also have a sales network serving the USA
and Canada, operating as REMU USA Inc.
See ad on back cover (pg 32)
Rivière-du-Loup, QC Canada
(418) 868-8324
www.ptchronos.com
Premier Tech Chronos is recognized
worldwide for its innovative solutions
and unique way of designing state-ofthe-art packaging equipment: screening
systems, hopper, volumetric feeder, manual
bagger, FFS bagger, palletizers, and stretch
wrappers/hooders. Our dynamic team is
constantly aware of the soil and mulch
industry growth, providing you with
engineering excellence and solutions that
will fit your specific needs.
See ad on pg 25
R.L. Shane Company
Dayton, OH
(800) 777-5299
www.rlshane.com
Rethceif Packaging
Ossian, IN
(866) 298-1876
www.rethceif.com
Rethceif Packaging develops and
manufactures FFS packaging equipment
in our 20,000 sq. ft. facility located in
Northeast Indiana. As a company, we use
the latest technology and innovation to
help our customers move into the future.
Our designs set the standard in reliability,
serviceability, cost of ownership, and
performance.
See ad on pg 23
RAYCO Manufacturing
Wooster, OH
(800) 392-2686
www.raycomfg.com
Rexius, Inc.
Eugene, OR
(888) 4-REXIUS
www.rexius.com
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Rock and Recycling Solutions
Hopkinton, MA
(866) 622-3339
www.rockandrecycling.net
Rotochopper Inc.
St. Martin, MN
(320) 548-3586
www.rotochopper.com
Rotochopper designs, builds, and supports
a complete line-up of horizontal grinders,
wood chip processors, asphalt shingle
grinders, and mobile bagging systems.
Our commitment to “Perfect In One Pass”
finished product quality has led to several
innovations, including several industry
firsts, patented features, and unique
machines.
See ad on pg 10
Roto-Mix LLC
2205 East Wyatt Earp Blvd.
Dodge City, KS 67801
(620) 225-1142
gfsmith@rotomix.com
Garland Smith
www.rotomix.com
Roto-Mix Compost Mixers are designed
with cost-efficiency in mind. Equipped with
the staggered Rotor that combines gentle
tumbling with quick complete mixing to
save time with fewer revolutions for an
even mix. Mixing wet and dry materials.
Available as stationary trailer or trucks.
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SB Mulch Inc.
Galivants Ferry, SC
(866) 334-6569
www.sbturfandmulch.com
SCARAB Mfg
1475 County Road W
White Deer, TX 79097
(806) 883-7621
tiffany.reid@scarabmfg.com
Tiffany Reid, Marketing Manager
www.scarabmfg.com
Scarab Manufacturing is celebrating our
40th year! With machines in 19 countries,
we are the world’s largest windrow turner
manufacturer. The longevity of our
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of the first machines still in use today.
We will build a machine that fits your
needs, featuring belt drive drums, efficient
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Indianapolis, IN
(317) 294-3923
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Screen Machine Industries is an American
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Summit Structures
Allentown, PA
(800) 615-4777
www.summitstructures.com
Sun Gro Horticulture
Bellevue, WA
(425) 641-7577
www.sungro.com
Screen USA Inc.
Smyrna, GA
(770) 433-2440
www.screenusa.net
SCREEN USA manufacturers a full line of
screening equipment, able to satisfy the
diverse demands of the modern operation. In addition to our trommels, shakers and
shredding equipment, SCREEN USA has
perfected the screening of high moisture
compost and organic materials with the
TORNADO STAR SCREENERS, available in
various sizes.
See ad on pg 29
SGP Mulch & Soils of America
Newark, OH
(740) 366-8807
Slootweg Machinefabriek B.V.
Hoofddorp, Netherlands
31 (0)23 5689070
www.slootweg.com
Smith Bros Inc.
Medina, OH
(800) 729-5751
www.smithbrosmulch.com
SmithCo Side-Dump Trailers
Le Mars, IA (800) 779-8099
www.sidedump.com
Sollenberger Silos, LLC
Chambersburg, PA
(717) 264-9588
www.sollenbergersilos.com
Somat Company
Lancaster, PA
(800) 237-6628
www.somatcompany.com
Sparta Innovation Inc.
Notre-Dame, NB Canada
(888) 586-6128
www.spartaway.com
Spectrum Technologies, Inc.
Plainfield, IL
(800) 248-8873
www.specmeters.com
Sprung Instant Structures Inc.
West Jordan, UT
(800) 528-9899
www.sprung.com
20 Soil & Mulch Producer News Superior Cedar Products Inc. Carney, MI
(906) 639-2104
www.superiorcedar.com
Supreme International Ltd
Wetaskiwin, AB Canada
(800) 563-2038
www.supremeinternational.com
Travis Body & Trailer Inc.
13955 FM529
Houston, TX 77041
(800) 535-4372
www.travistrailers.com
Trinity Packaging Corp
Armonk, NY
(914) 273-4111
www.trinitypackaging.com
Trinity Trailer Mfg Inc.
8200 S. Eisenman Rd.
Boise, ID 83716
(800) 235-6577
sales@trinitytrailer.com
www.trinitytrailer.com
U
SureGreen Mulch
Ruston, LA
(877) 255-0228
www.louisianasoil.com
U.S. Composting Council
Ronkonkoma, NY
(631) 737-4931
www.compostingcouncil.org
Suwannee River Mulch
Cross City, FL
(800) 985-9939
www.suwanneelumber.com
Universal Equipment Mfg
2140 Advance Ave.
Columbus, OH 43207
(614) 586-1780
info@universalequipmentmfg.com
www.universalequipmentmfg.com
See ad on pg 28
Swanson Bark
& Wood Products
Longview, WA
(800) 762-2319
www.swansonbark.com
T.H. Blue Inc.
Eagle Springs, NC
(800) 382-2583
www.thbluemulch.com
Telles / Mirel Plastics
Lowell, MA
(978) 513-1800
www.mirelplastics.com
Terra Select Inc.
Orem, UT
(888) 540-6779
www.terra-select-inc.com
Totally Green, Inc.
Tulsa, OK
(918) 619-9700
www.totallygreen.com
Toter Inc.
Statesville, NC
(800) 424-0422
www.toter.com
West Salem Machinery
Salem, OR
(800) 722-3530
www.westsalem.com
West Salem Machinery offers a broad range
of screening and size reduction machinery.
WSM delivers mill-duty machinery and
systems, from small horizontal grinders, to
massive wood/bark hogs, to high volume
screening/grinding systems, that are built
to perform and built to last.
See ad on pg 9
Western Trailers Co.
Boise, ID
(888) 344-2539
www.westerntrailer.com
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T.H. Glennon Co. Inc.
26 Fanaras Drive
Salisbury, MA 01952
(978) 465-7222
Brian@GlennonCompany.com
www.mulchcolorjet.com
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Warren & Baerg Mfg
39950 Road 108
Dinuba, CA 93618
(559) 591-6790
info@warrenbaerg.com
Randy Baerg, President
www.warrenbaerg.com
Universal Refiner Corporation
Montesano, WA
(800) 277-8068
www.universalrefiner.com
Universal Refiner Corp has been
manufacturing stationary grinders for
the sawmill, pulp and mulch industries
since 1980. Included in our product line
is the Hypocyclonic Action Waste Grinder
(H.A.W.G.), which can produce a finished
product in just a single pass. Also, our
R-MAG Models are our most powerful,
productive and efficient machines yet.
See ad on pg 23
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Vermeer Corporation
Pella, IA
(641) 628-3141
www.vermeer.com
Vision Recycling
Fremont, CA
(510) 353-6030
www.visionrecycling.com
Wildcat Mfg / Vermeer Corp
Pella, IA
(641) 628-3141
www.vermeer.com
Vermeer and Wildcat manufactures
equipment that processes organic waste
quickly and efficiently into a useful end
product. Designed with innovations that
help improve productivity, streamline
maintenance and protect operators,
Vermeer compost turners, horizontal
grinders, tub grinders and Wildcat compost
turners and trommel screens are built to last
and fully supported with parts and service
from your local dealer.
See ad on pg 31
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Beamsville, ON Canada
(800) 282-1239
www.xlshelter.com
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University of Missouri Creating Closedloop Food Waste to Fertilizer System
C
olumbia, MO—Tim Reinbott at the University of Missouri’s
Bradford Research Center, the university’s research farm, is working
with Eric Cartwright, head of the university’s dining system, to put
to use the plated food waste and post-preparation food scraps generated,
about a million pounds a year, to recycle that waste into a closed-loop
food system that will generate the fertilizer for growing new food. The
new system, called the Zero Carbon Footprint Vegetable and Compost
Production System, is designed to lower MU’s carbon footprint and more
effectively manage waste materials. It will make use of 250 tons of food
waste produced by campus dining halls every year. Reinbott is seeing
the system as a first in American higher education and a model for other
educational institution, as well as a classroom resource.
The composting system has been in the works for about two years.
After initial problems with budgeting, work progressed quickly, and the
new composting facility opened in November.
In the dining hall, large pulpers process food waste into a ground mash,
using everything from bones to napkins. The pulp is then taken to their new
composting station and dumped into a hopper, which feeds an auger system.
Time and heat break down the matter until it becomes a dark, rich organic
fertilizer. After about five months of processing, it is then mixed with old
horse bedding, manure and sawdust.
The finished product is then mixed into vegetable beds to eliminate the
need for nitrogen fertilizer. The veggies grown are sold to the dining system
to cover the cost of composting, although they will still need to purchase
additional food products from suppliers, in order to meet their overall
demand. The school will also save on landfill and hauling costs, and it is
hoped business students can come up with a way to sell the extra fertilizer
to the community.
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“A Rethceif design is complete when it accomplishes the finest final package with the least amount of waste, movement and wear items possible.”
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Soil
&
Mulch Producer NEWS
Wood-to-Waste Plant May Come to Yakima,
WA Area
Y
akima, WA—The White Swan area maybe getting an $80 million wood waste-to-energy
plant that would use woody debris from Yakama Nation forest lands. The plant can handle
160,000 tons per year of ground-up woody debris and could be operating by the fall of
2013, says Tiin-Ma Logging owner Kip Ramsey, who created Simkwii Energy LLC to develop the
20-megawatt complex, which would be eligible for the county’s tax-exempt status, and thus lowercost financing.
Simkwii Energy would build four 5-megawatt plants for $3.8 million on an 80-acre area, each
with boilers and turbines to generate electricity from steam, costing a total $76.2 million. The
Yakama Nation is backing the project and has a long-term agreement for the firm to obtain wood
from logging operations on tribal lands. Slash piles are both a fire hazard and a breeding ground for
pine bark beetles. Tribal forest lands contain more than 1 million tons of wood debris so the plant
would be fueled for 20 years, not including future logging.
Pacificorp and Puget Sound Energy are prime customers for the power, but Pacificorp, the parent
company of Pacific Power, which provides electrical power to 130,000 customers in Yakima and Walla
Walla counties, says it has not been approached about purchasing the plant’s output.
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Continental Biomass Industries, Inc.
Newton, NH
Info Request #170
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Cornell and Worm
Power Join Forces
on Biofertilizer
Development
I
thaca, NY—Researchers at Cornell
University have joined with a New York
composting business, the Avon, NY-based
Worm Power, on research that shows worm
compost is not only a great fertilizer, it may also
organically protect seeds from the pathogen
Pythium aphanidermatum, a pathogen whose
mobile spores infect seedlings, causing them
to wither shortly after germination. These
microbes can protect a seed from infection by
releasing a substance that interferes with the
chemical signaling between the host and the
pathogen, says the Cornell research.
Some composts have been proven to
suppress diseases, but it is not known which
microbes suppress which diseases. Compost is
also seen as a variable substance, so it is hard
to get uniform results. Cornell research worked
with Worm Power, which produces 2.5 million
pounds of vermicompost a year, according
to owner Tom Herlihy. His compost is very
consistent, because his dairy manure feedstock
is regular and the process highly controlled.
The development of an organic biopesticide
would lead to a very marketable product if
it meets Environmental Protection Agency
standards.
Cornell is also looking at three-year project,
starting this spring, to study vermicompost’s
organic fertilizing capability, supported by the
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, by exploring how
organic growers can incorporate it into potting
mixes for better nutrient management.
Missouri Composter
Shut Down for
Contaminated Water
Emissions
J
efferson City, MO—The Missouri State
Attorney General’s Office is shutting down
an unauthorized composting facility in
southwest Missouri that composts food and
other waste and then sells the resulting mulch.
Attorney General Chris Koster said his office
has obtained a preliminary injunction to shut
down a facility in Lawrence County owned by
Black Oak Organics and HP Environmental,
Inc. The action is being taken because the court
has found evidence that the companies and
their owners have violated Missouri’s Clean
Water and Solid Waste Management Laws. The
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
found that contaminated storm water at the
facility was being discharged into a tributary
of Honey Creek, where it could seep into the
groundwater table.
Soil
&
Mulch Producer NEWS
Iowa State Has Success with
Mortality Recycling on Swine
Teaching Farm
A
mes, IA—The Iowa State University swine breeding farm began
composting mortalities eight years ago to increase biosecurity
practices. Swine farms manager Jay Lampe calls the move a good
one, and says that the process has changed both management style and
lowered biosecurity risks while providing a sustainable way of managing
mortalities by eliminating potential sources of disease outbreaks inherent
in rendering and decreasing incoming fuel trucks.
The size and cost of building a composting facility varies depending
on available land, kind of materials and number mortalities to be
composted. This farm facility is completely roofed with eight bays, each
about 10 feet square with four foot high concrete walls to allow adequate
space for all carcass sizes. A foot-deep layer of dry cover material, like
wood shavings or chopped corn stalk is put in the bottom to absorb
moisture from decaying carcasses, with alternating layers of cover material
and carcasses filling the bay. Then the compost undergoes the first heating
cycle of 60 to 90 days and partially composted carcasses are moved to
a secondary bin to break up the materials in the pile, redistribute excess
moisture and introduce a new oxygen supply.
At the ISU swine farm, a nitrogen source and a carbon source
(typically corn stalks or woodchips) are the primary materials used in
composting and the material is then applied to cropland for return to
the soil without odor or other problems. The long term success of the
project has meant that ISU facilities, including the poultry and beef
teaching farms, are using the practice. Deciding to compost means initial
costs of construction, says the school, but saves money that might be
spent on a disease outbreak from rendering services or fuel trucks for
an incinerator.
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Manitoba Peat Mine in Jeopardy for
Threats to Peat Bog in Parkland
M
anitoba—Sun Gro Horticulture, a U.S. company that is the
largest producer of peat moss in North America, is seeking an
environmental license to operate a peat mine at Hay Point bog,
in Hecla-Grindstone Provincial Park north of Gimli. Sun Gro is hoping
Winnipeg engineering firm KGS Group can submit the application. The
firm is facing opposition from residents, environmentalists and First
Nations people, and a moratorium is in place on peat mines. Manitoba
Finance Minister Stan Struthers said Sun Gro already had a lease for a
peat mine before the NDP moratorium was put in place.
The association that represents peat moss developers in the dominion
says the industry is environmentally responsible. “Our policy is to restore
peat lands after we finish harvesting them,” said Paul Short of the
Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss Association, based in Edmonton. The
industry group has been working with researchers at Laval University in
Quebec for more than a decade to ensure harvested bogs are rehabilitated.
“We can bring these ecosystems back within human lifetimes. The science
is there,” said Short.
Restoration could threaten bog status for the site, and it would no
longer be able to prevent harmful algae blooms on Lake Winnipeg, say
environmentalists. If the bog is mined, it would release tons of greenhouse gases.
Gaile Whelan Enns, director of the conservation group Manitoba
Wildlands, said the project breaks the spirit of the Save Lake Winnipeg
Act, which imposes a moratorium on peat mining.
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Making Composting Safer, More
Environmental Friendly
W
ashington, DC—Job related deaths have occurred in all
industries despite safety procedures set in place, and this is
true in composting as well. Three workers died from inhaling
toxic fumes at a Vancouver plant, which went bankrupt from lawsuits,
and two brothers who worked for a compost company in California died
from inhaling hydrogen sulfide. The Occupational Safety and Health
Administration warns never to attempt a rescue in an area that may
contain hydrogen sulfide without using appropriate respiratory protection
and without being trained to perform such a rescue. Continuing to enforce
safety procedures, implement practice drills, and general education on
hazardous materials may prevent or at least decrease such tragedies in the
future.
There are also some environmental concerns regarding composting, with
state and local authorities working to make composting procedures more
environmentally friendly. Though some techniques are higher in cost, these
may become more viable with technological innovation. Anaerobic digestion,
which confines compost material in oxygen-free containers where the bacteria
can break it down and create energy, is one such example. Another is aerating
compost rows to reduce air and water emissions by covering the materials
with a membrane that will also reduce odors and rain runoff.
In addition, compost companies are subject to changing regulatory
practices, including tighter ruling for issuing permits. These practices should
help enhance the safety of workers and reduce environmental concerns.
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compost turner
2007 Vermeer TG 7000, 2,400 hours, Cat 3412E
engine, 1,000 hp, Tub Grinder with Coloring System.
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2001 CBI 4000 Mag. Force, 900HP (1500R hr) .....$179,000
Tub Grinders
1999 Morbark 1300NCL, 800 HP (7800 hr).......$50,000
1997 Toro 5000, 650 HP (4000 hr) .....................$85,000
2003 Vermeer TG525L, 525 HP (4000 hr) .........$95,000
1998 Morbark 1300, 800 HP (1600R hr) ..........$123,000
HorizonTal Grinders
2004 Rotochopper MC266, 460 HP (3300 hr) .$169,900
2004 Bandit 3680, 645 HP (2650 hr) ................$170,000
2004 Peterson 4710, 630 HP (5100 hr).............$185,000
2007 Morbark 3800, 600 HP (1500 hr) ............$260,000
2004 Morbark 6600T, 1000 HP (4600 hr) ........$295,000
2008 Morbark 3800, 630 HP (920 hr) ..............$313,000
2005 Doppstadt DW3060K, 430 HP (1050 hr) $415,000
TroMMel sCreens
1998 Retech Eliminator III, 6’x27’ (2600 hr) ..$87,500
1994 Earthsaver 622ABH, 6’x22’ .....................$45,000
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Smaller AD Biogas Plants Seen for
Urban Areas, Campuses in England
L
ondon, England—The Creative Health Lab, a social enterprise based
in North London, is working to develop a small scale, community
Anaerobic Digestion (AD) project to be replicated across the
country. AD is a process where plant and animal material, such as food
waste, manure, sewage and green waste, is degraded by natural organisms
in the absence of air to produce a biogas made up of carbon dioxide and
methane that can be used to generate heat and electricity and a digestate
that can be used as a fertilizer. AD projects in the UK are generally large,
industrial scale technologies, but Creative Health Lab is hoping the
technology can be reduced to a local level for an urban environment or
a university.
The Local Energy Adventure Partnership is examining two North
London sites to begin trials of the small-scale technology, which is used
widely in the developing world now. The technology is not the problem,
but rather the cost effectiveness, as it works better with cheap labor. In
London, LEAP will be look at a community enterprise to give local people
employment opportunities, using a team of apprentices who will get help
from AD experts and engineering students from Imperial College.
Green Gasoline Plant Planned for
Louisiana by Sundrop Fuels
Universal Equipment Mfg.
2140 Advance Ave., Columbus, OH 43207
Ph: 614-586-1780 • Fax: 614-586-1781
Call Billy Holmes
614-586-1780 office
614-595-7933 cell
L
ongmont, CO—Sundrop Fuels Inc is planning to build its first
gasification plant to produce gasoline from forest waste on 1,200
acres in Rapides Parish, LA, near Alexandria. The advanced
fuels plant will convert cellulosic feedstock into synthesis gas to use in
combustion engines but will use the nation’s existing fuels distribution
infrastructure. It will cost from $450 million to $500 million and produce
up to 50 million gallons annually as what Sundrop Fuels calls the world’s
first ready-to-use, renewable ‘green gasoline.’ The new biofuel is expected
to cost as much or less than petroleum-based transportation fuels. The state is giving Sundrop Fuels performance-based incentives for the
facility, and it hopes the project will help grow the local economy. By 2020,
Sundrop Fuels said it expects to produce more than 1 billion gallons of
fuel annually and meet almost 10% of federal government’s stated goal for
fuels refined from cellulosic material and other alternatives to crude oil.
In related news, there has been a decision by the federal government
to shut down and auction the assets of Range Fuels wood-to-ethanol
plant in Soperton, GA, at a loss of more than $500 million in loans and
venture capital funds.
Tacoma to Try Out Food Waste
Recycling and Fewer Pickups
T
www.kdheks.gov/waste
acoma, WA—The City of Tacoma is allowing food scraps to be
accepted in the yard waste bin starting this spring as part of regular
every-other-week yard waste collection after a successful six-month
pilot project. Bread, meat, bones, eggs, and kitchen scraps are included,
and the city is starting a public awareness campaign that explains how
the program works and its launch dates. Customers will get gallon-sized
pails to collect daily kitchen scraps and put the contents into yard waste
containers for pickup.
It is all part of a bigger program to see if the city should go to biweekly
garbage collection from its current weekly service. A final report is not yet
out, but it seems that citizens like biweekly pickup, which leads to increased
recycling and lower costs for the city.
Because it is closing its landfill by 2013, Tacoma must reduce its waste
stream and increase recycling when it begins using the Pierce County
landfill. City officials hope some of the compost can be returned to the city
from the compost factory near Graham, allowing the city to sell it.
Soil
&
Mulch Producer NEWS
Study Suggests That Production of Biofuel from Forests Will Increase
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
A
ccording to a report in sciencedaily.com,
the largest and most comprehensive
study yet done on the effect of biofuel
production from West Coast forests has
concluded that an emphasis on bioenergy
would increase carbon dioxide emissions from
these forests at least 14 percent, if the efficiency
of such operations is optimal.
The findings are contrary to assumptions
and some previous studies that suggest biofuels
from this source would be carbon-neutral or
even reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In this research, that wasn’t true in any
scenario.
The study was published in Nature Climate
Change, by scientists from the College of
Forestry at Oregon State University and other
institutions in Germany and France. It was
supported by the U.S. Department of Energy.
During the past four years, the study
examined 80 forest types in 19 eco-regions
in Oregon, Washington and California,
ranging from temperate rainforests to semiarid woodlands. It included both public and
private lands and different forest management
approaches.
“On the West Coast, we found that projected
forest biomass removal and use for bioenergy in
any form will release more carbon dioxide to the
atmosphere than current forest management
practices,” said Tara Hudiburg, a doctoral
candidate at OSU and lead author on the
study.
“Most people assume that wood bioenergy
will be carbon-neutral, because the forest regrows and there’s also the chance of protecting
forests from carbon emissions due to wildfire,”
Hudiburg said. “However, our research showed
that the emissions from these activities proved
to be more than the savings.”
The only exception to this, the researchers
said, was if forests in high fire-risk zones
become weakened due to insect outbreaks
or drought, which impairs their growth and
carbon sequestration, as well as setting the
stage for major fires. It’s possible some thinning
for bioenergy production might result in lower
emissions in such cases if several specific criteria
are met, they said.
“Until now there have been a lot of
misconceptions about impacts of forest thinning,
fire prevention and biofuels production as it
relates to carbon emissions from forests,” said
Beverly Law, a professor in the OSU Department
of Forest Ecosystems and Society and co-author
of this study.
“If our ultimate goal is to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, producing bioenergy from forests
will be counterproductive,” Law said. “Some
of these forest management practices may also
have negative impacts on soils, biodiversity and
habitat. These issues have not been thought out
very fully.”
The study examined thousands of forest
plots with detailed data and observations,
considering 27 parameters, including the role of
forest fire, emissions savings from bioenergy use,
wood product substitution, insect infestations,
forest thinning, energy and processes needed to
produce biofuels, and many others.
It looked at four basic scenarios: “business
as usual”; forest management primarily for fire
prevention purposes; additional levels of harvest
to prevent fire but also make such operations
more economically feasible; and significant
bioenergy production while contributing to fire
reduction.
Compared to “business as usual” or current
forest management approaches, all of the other
approaches increased carbon emissions, the
study found. Under the most optimal levels of
efficiency, management just for fire prevention
increased it 2 percent; for better economic
return, 6 percent; and for higher bioenergy
production, 14 percent.
“However, we don’t believe that an optimal
efficiency of production is actually possible in
real-world conditions,” Hudiburg said. “With
levels of efficiency that are more realistic, we
project that the use of these forests for high
bioenergy production would increase carbon
emissions 17 percent from their current level.”
About 98 percent of the forests in this
region are now estimated to be a carbon sink,
meaning that even with existing management
approaches they sequester more carbon than
they release to the atmosphere.
Plans for greenhouse gas reduction call
for up to 10 percent lower emissions by 2020,
and forest-derived fuels are now seen as a
carbon-neutral solution to reducing energy
emissions, the researchers note. However, this
study suggests that increases in harvest volume
on the West Coast, for any reason, will instead
result in average increases in emissions above
current levels.
Forests capture a large portion of the
carbon emitted worldwide, and some of this
carbon is stored in pools such as wood and soil
that can last hundreds to thousands of years,
the scientists said.
“Energy policy implemented without full
carbon accounting and an understanding of the
underlying processes risks increasing rather than
decreasing emissions,” the researchers wrote in
their report.
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Peterson Introduces the 5700C
Horizontal Grinder
REMU Introduces Big Float 800
Excavator
R
T
he 5700C is Peterson’s latest generation of high
production grinders. Powered by a Caterpillar C27
engine making 1050hp (783 kW), the 5700C has the
power to handle the toughest jobs. At 78,000 pounds (35380
kg) the 5700C was designed for operations that require
frequent moves between jobs without a special permit. With
a feed opening of 60 x 40 inches (152 x 102 mm) combined
with Peterson’s high lift feed roll; the 5700C can readily
reduce a wide range of material including stumps.
The 5700C’s new generation of controls includes
Peterson’s high production Adaptive Control System and
a fully adjustable feed system that can be optimized for a
wide range of materials.
The 5700C features a large grate area that enables
the 5700C to produce materials to exact specifications.
Our quick-change multiple grate system makes it easy to
customize grate configurations to produce a wide variety
of finished materials.
For more information contact Peterson at
541-689-6520 or visit www.petersoncorp.com.
SCREEN USA Celebrates New
Year with Introduction of 6090
Trommel Screen
S
CREEN USA
Inc. recently
l a u n c h e d
the
SCREEN
USA TROM6090.
According to owner
Rick Cohen, “the
SCREEN USA 6090 was designed to fill a gap in our
trommel screening line. We offer a smaller TROM406HM
and a TROM406HMSL which are small trommel screens
that target the skid steer market. Many of our customers
have out grown the smaller machines and need a medium
sized trommel, without the large price tag.”
The SCREEN USA TROM6090 is equipped with a stout
5 yard hopper, hydraulic tipping grizzly (remote control), 36”
wide drag chain feeder (variable speed), optional shredder
/ pulverizer, trommel screen (easy change), and a 30” wide
built-on, high-speed slinger conveyor. This machine is
unique to the market as it can not only be pulled by a 1-1/2
ton pick-up truck via military pintle, but it can be equipped
with a shredder / pulverizer, which will break up the clump
soil / compost before screening. As the name suggest, the
6090 will screen approximately 60-90 yards per hour. In dry
material it has exceeded 120 yards per hour.
For more information contact SCREEN USA at
770-433-2440 or visit www.screenusa.net.
EMU’s
Big Float
product
line has a new
member. The
Big Float 800
excavator was
developed
to meet the
customer ’s
demand to
work on marshlands and coast lines without fear of getting
stuck or sinking. The Big Float 800 is a cost-effective
alternative to bigger machines, for job sites where digging
depth is less than 4 meters.
REMU Big Float 800 is an amphibious excavator with
8 tons of base machine. Total weight is only 12, 500 kg and
it can be transported even with 3-axel trucks. The length
of the boom is 7.7 meters, which gives a 4.1 meter digging
depth. Like the other Big Float models, it is totally floating
and can be brought to the job site by driving it, or it can be
towed or driven with propellers along water ways.
Extra equipment is also available with this new model.
With extra pontoons and anchoring legs it can be operated
in open water. Propellers can be added to extra pontoons
for easy moving along water ways.
For more information please contact via email:
hanna@remu.fi or visit www.remu.fi.
Robotic Palletizing Cell from
Premier Tech
P
remier Tech’s Robotic
Palletizing Cell is a
flexible palletizing
system, offering one of
the best solutions to any
palletizing need. Several
grippers are available for
palletizing bags, boxes,
bundles, cases, cans, pails,
drums, trays, totes, etc. This
heavy-duty robotic cell can
simultaneously gather from
up to four different incoming
product lines. At speeds of up to 28 units per minute (single
robot) and up to 40 units per minute (dual robots in the
same space area), they are custom programmed for each
unique layout to achieve optimum performance. It also offers
an option that eliminates manual adjustments for bag size
changeover. This feature allows the robot to automatically
adjust gripper opening when changing bag size.
Note: Premier Tech Chronos is proud to introduce
the new version of its website ptchronos.com, which
has recently been completely redesigned and thus greatly
improved. Visit ptchronos.com and learn more about us
and our innovative packaging systems.
For more information, contact Premier Tech Chronos
at 418-868-8324, info@ptchronos.com
or visit www.ptchronos.com.
WE’RE WILDLY CONSISTENT.
Wildcat trommel screens and compost turners can help you
produce a consistent end product.
For nearly 40 years, Wildcat Manufacturing has been helping operators exceed their wildest expectations.
Our products are powerful, productive, and backed by an industry-leading dealer network committed to
your satisfaction.
From trommel screens to compost turners, we design and build equipment you can count on day after day.
It’s easy to operate, easy to service, and the easy choice when you need high performance and consistent
end product.
Call your nearest dealer or visit www.vermeer.com today!
The WILDCAT LOGO is a trademark of Wildcat Mfg. Co, Inc. VERMEER is a trademark of Vermeer Manufacturing Company
in the United States and/or other countries.
© 2012 Vermeer Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
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PAGES 11-20
Sweet Smell of Success When Business Stinks
PAGE 1
Industry News from the Mulch & Soil Council
PAGE 5
University of Missouri Creating Closedloop
Food Waste to Fertilizer System
PAGE 23
Making Composting Safer, More
Environmental Friendly
PAGE 27
Study Suggests That Production of Biofuel from
Forests Will Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions
PAGE 29
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