Dairy Energy Efficiency

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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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Links

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.

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Last Updated December 28, 2007

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