By Joel Tiller
On any given day up to 800 cattle are fed, cleaned and milked – sometimes twice a day – at Stanton Farms’ new facility in Ilderton Ont.
To some this may seem less than impressive, or, perhaps, the norm for a farm of this magnitude. But Stanton Farms isn’t your typical dairy farm. Far from it in fact.
What makes this farm unique is it moonlights as a small power plant – converting its never-ending supply of manure into electricity using an anaerobic biodigester.
“The thought of all cattle farms being labelled factory farms disturbs me … we counter this myth by engaging in environmentally, and animal, friendly practices,” [...]