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Smithfield Foods’ “manure-to-energy” project to inject renewable natural gas to Milan, Mo., distribution system

Smithfield installed infrastructure to capture methane emissions from its Northern Missouri hog farms and convert them into pipeline-quality natural gas.
August 5, 2019
Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., completed construction of a low-pressure natural gas transmission line connecting a Smithfield hog farm located in Milan, Mo., with the city of Milan’s natural gas pipeline.
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Stonyfield Organic OpenTEAM

Global Collaborative launches open source technology ecosystem to address soil health, mitigate climate change

OpenTEAM is a farmer-driven, interoperable platform to provide farmers around the world with the best possible knowledge to improve soil health.
August 5, 2019
Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment, Freeport, Maine, together with founding collaborators Stonyfield Organic, Londonderry, N.H., and the USDA's LandPKS project and Foundation for the Food and Agriculture (FFAR), Washington, D.C., launched OpenTEAM, what is said to be the first open source technology ecosystem to address soil health and mitigate climate change.
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Flexicon stand-alone dust collector

Flexicon opens office in France

The new site helps take the risk out of customers purchasing bulk handling equipment and systems.
August 5, 2019
Flexicon, Bethlehem, Pa., opened an office in France to provide factory-direct sales and application engineering services to customers in France and surrounding regions.
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Organic Valley becomes 100% renewably powered

These solar projects are part of the 32 MWdc Butter Solar Portfolio, which is owned and operated by BluEarth Renewables US, Canada.
August 5, 2019
Organic Valley, La Farge, Wis., announced that the construction of three community solar projects totaling 12.67 MWdc is complete, making the cooperative what is said to be the largest food company in the world to be 100% renewably powered.
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TerraForm Power to acquire large-scale U.S. distributed generation platform

The portfolio represents one of the largest distributed generation platforms in the United States, comprised of 291 megawatts of commercial and industrial solar assets, 21 megawatts of residential solar assets and 10 megawatts of fuel cells.
July 31, 2019
TerraForm Power, Inc., New York, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a high-quality, unlevered distributed generation platform with up to 320 megawatt of capacity in the United States from subsidiaries of AltaGas Ltd., Canada, for $720 million.
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OPTIMA opens new logistics center

The EUR 20 million Optima Logistics Center was built on a former military site.
July 31, 2019
OPTIMA packaging group GmbH, Germany, opened the doors to a new logistics center, situated in the Solpark industrial park in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany.
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Researchers use electrical signaling to detect bacteria

The researchers’ findings could lead to development of medical devices that can rapidly detect live bacterial cells in food and beverage applications.
July 31, 2019
Researchers at the University of Warwick, UK, found that bacteria can be detected in minutes by zapping it with electricity.
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