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 More than almost any other agricultural operation, dairies rely on electrical energy: for milking (vacuum pumps), cooling and storing milk, heating water, and lighting. In times of rising energy costs and static dairy prices, energy costs can be the difference between making and losing money.
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U.S. Dairy Sustainability website
Information, tools, and best practices offered with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for fluid milk by 25 percent by 2020.
The Energy Center of Wisconsin
Publications on numerous dairy energy efficiency topics (search the term 'dairy').
EnSave, Inc.
This commercial site offers technical papers on variable speed drives for dairies, efficient fans and lighting, and other topics.
Wisconsin Focus on Energy
Info Library includes fact sheets, news updates, case studies, and articles on milking parlor design, lighting, ventilation, milk-cooling, water-heating, and other dairy topics.
The Wisconsin Public Service Corporation
Offers energy-saving tools and ideas for farms, including many for dairies.
Illini Dairy Net
This "online resource for the dairy industry" offers a number of energy-related papers, under the heading "Economics, Management, & Marketing."
The Midwest Rural Energy Council
Informational pages include several articles on dairy energy management.
The California Energy Commission
Energy in Agriculture Program offers dairy-related case studies, publications, and research projects.
Center for Ecological Technology
Organization provides publications and links on energy efficient and renewable energy technologies.
Pennsylvania Center for Dairy Excellence
Organization dedicated to improving the profitability of the dairy industry. Website provides resources and tools for improving profitability through energy efficiency.
DLTech, Inc. Dairy Farm Energy
Information about dairy mechanical systems, their functions and efficiencies.
Rural Electricity Resource Council
National clearinghouse and technical support provider on energy efficiency with an emphasis on rural applications.
The Dairy Practices Council
Non-profit organization that publishes approved educational guidelines for the dairy industry.
USDA-NRCS Energy Estimator: Animal Housing
This tool is designed to enable you to estimate potential energy savings associated with swine, poultry or dairy cow housing operations on your farm or ranch. The tool evaluates major energy costs in lighting, ventilation and heating costs for swine and poultry, as well as major energy costs for lighting, air circulation, milk cooling, water heating and milk harvesting for a typical dairy.
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Last Updated November 10, 2009
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