“I can't imagine anyone who would not think of this as a good thing, generating high quality and highly available energy from manure and replacing a commercially mined and processed fertilizer with recycled fertilizer. Everyone's gonna love that idea. So we need to shift some of that money from the traditional energy and nutrient sources over to the farmers.” ~ Steve Rowe, CEO, Newtrient

Steve Rowe is the CEO of Newtrient, a company that helps farmers take the nutrients that are part of the agricultural cycle and use them in new ways. Newtrient's mission is to reduce the environmental footprint of dairy farming and make it economically viable to do so.

Nothing is wasted in nature. Anytime an organism produces waste there is some other organism waiting in line to use it. Farmers have been harnessing that natural system to recycle manure since the birth of agriculture. It’s the world’s oldest circular economy. Now there are more ways than ever to recycle, reuse or upcycle components from manure.

Things we talked about with Steve:

Manure as a renewable, environmentally-friendly fertilizer.
Renewable baseload energy from feeding manure into methane digesters
Environmentally friendly fiber products from manure
A circular economy for manure

“We need to set up better economic signals between the urban and rural communities, which will, I believe re-knit the relationship between urban and rural the way it was, perhaps when I was a kid, when everybody knew a farmer or everyone was just one generation off the farm. Now people are very, very disconnected. We have many, many more foodies, but far fewer people who understand where food comes from.” ~ Steve Rowe

Music was provided by:

Avery Reidy
Keaton Butler
Theme music is by Juices

Audio production by Keaton Butler – keatonbutlerrecording@gmail.com

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