Ohio State University in Wooster, Ohio is running at 40 gpm press liquor from their KP-10. This is the machine in the video that Harvestore made; we have a copy if you want it. The new barn manager is Kevin Miller, 330-263-3924, Dairy Research Center Manager, Krauss Dairy Center. They have 120 cows, scrape barn, feeding our press. They run only 16 hours a week, making bedding. They put the press cake fresh into the stalls, without composting.
The original KP-10 at the University of Wisconsin goes great. We are not sure who the farm manager is, so the best contact would be Dr. Dick Koegel (“Cagle”) at 608-264-5149 or 608- 264-5355. He is at the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center. The KP-10 processes 50 gpm of dairy manure, with a separation of 43 gpm of liquid. The inbound solids were split evenly, with 50% in the press liquid and 50% in the press cake. Press cake moisture content measured 72%. Scraped barn.
One we have not heard from for a year is Warren Hatcher, mobile 423-309-8108, farm 423-338-2780 at Riverside Dairy Farm in Benton, Tennessee. They have a KP-16 on 800 head, flush barn. I saw a good 800 gpm going through the machine.
A good for sure KP-16 is at McArthur Farms in Okeechobee, Florida. They run 1,500 cows in a flush barn. Their pump was limited to 600 gpm, and the press took it all easily. The contact would be Maintenance Manager Rick Amadon 941-763- 8986. This farm has at least 5,000 head. Bob Rydzewski is the VP-GM, 941-763-4719 or 941-763-4373.
The KP-10 machine at Fairgrove Farms is a winner. Our Pressing News #1 describes this biogas system for electricity generation. At the farm, Warren Kelly’s numbers are 616-651-6646, 616-651-8903, and cell 616-268-3747; John Pueschel’s cell phone is 616-341-3053. The farm is two miles west of Sturgis, Michigan.
As at Fairgrove Farms, a KP-10 is used on digester sludge on an A.O. Smith Harvestore dairy manure biogas system at Cushman Farm. The biogas is used as boiler fuel. Our contact is Dave Smith at 860-234-0285 and Nathen Cushman, 860-642-4711, 120 Kahn Road, North Franklin, CT 06254.
Our little KP-6 is well loved at the University of Tennessee. Contacts would be Dr. Robert Burns, 423-974-7266, 865-974- 7237 and farm manager Henry Dowlen, 931-270-2240. They have 150 to 200 cows, scrape barn.
We have sold three KP-6’s to pig farmers in Costa Rica. Since the sales came one year apart, we know the machines are working well. These farmers are bagging the cake and selling it as cattle and goat feed. The only person to call would be our distributor, Wilfred Korte at Industrias Bendig, 011-506- 259-7379. Wilfred’s English is good.
Gary Hodgson, cell 403-340-9727, of United Livestock in Alberta, Canada sold a KP-10 to the Pibroch Colony, part of the Hutterite or Hutterian Brethren. The farm is north of Edmonton. George Walter is the Minister; Ely takes care of the manure system. They installed a tiny static screen over the inlet to the press. The press liquor runs a good 60 gpm. They have 4,000 pigs in the finishing barns. They produce 22 tons per week of press cake.
A KP-6 has been sold for the Futura Dairy in Central City, Iowa. This unit will dewater sludge from a biogas digester. Start-up is scheduled for later this year.