Today s farms are bigger and highly efficient producers of crops and livestock. With this industry trend comes greater environmental impacts on groundwater and surface waters from pesticide, herbicide, fertilizer use and livestock waste management.
Farmers have neither the time or the money to invest in complex treatment systems.
We tailor our approach to each individual farm using simple, natural systems with manual mechanizations that are proven to work. Benchmark staff designed, installed and operated a waste treatment system at Dream Maker Dairy, in Cowlesville, New York. The system was designed to allow the dairy to expand its herd size while maintaining its existing land base. The system employs a constructed wetland process, which allows the 400-cow dairy to meet its nutrient management plan, naturally. Benchmark designed the waste management process for Agway Agricultural Products North Country Heifer Facility in Hopkinton, New York.