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Got methane?

Publication: OEM Off-Highway
Publication Date: 01-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Got methane?(Feature)

Article Excerpt
Got methane?

by Chad Elmore

California dairy farmer converts cow manure into truck fuel.

Every day, milk trucks leave Hilarides Dairy and head northwest to Hilmar Cheese Co. Inside the tanker trailer and the composite cylinders installed in the Peterbilt's sleeper are valuable commodities provided by the dairy's Jersey cows. There's the fresh milk, as well as manure dropped by the 9,000 cows living at the dairy, which fuels the truck (after a few steps). The Lindsay, CA-based fleet is said to be the first in the country to use biomethane produced entirely on the farm.

The introduction to the cow-powered truck took place this year at World Ag Expo, Tulare, CA, and concluded with a toast of milk to Rob Hilarides and the red and white Peterbilt parked in his booth. In 2007, California provided 22% of the nation's total production of milk, according to the California Milk Advisory Board. Hilarides Dairy is one of 1,960 such operations that help make California the No. 1 dairy state. The...

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