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Virginia
Amelia Court House, Virginia
Oakmulgee Dairy Farm, owned by Larkin Moyer, a fourth-generation dairyman, along with his sons Brandon and Jeremy and is the oldest continuously operating family dairy in the Commonwealth.
The Farm Powered anaerobic digester at Oakmulgee Dairy Farm will produce more than 259k MMBtu per year of renewable natural gas and divert over 105k tons per year of food and beverage waste from landfill. The renewable natural gas produced at this farm will go on to fuel AstraZeneca’s Maryland biopharmaceutical production facilities.
Project Facts
- Generational Virginia dairy farm
- Located in Amelia Court House, Virginia
- Owned and operated by the Moyer family
- 360 milking cows on site
- 1,100 acres
- RNG Buyer: AstraZeneca
- Annual digester inputs: more than 100,000 tons of food waste and cow manure
- Annual digester output: 259,000 MMBtu of RNG per year
Farm Benefits at a Glance
- Income diversification
- Odor reduction from replacing raw manure with odorless digestate
- Liquid, low-carbon fertilizer to increase crop yields and protect area soils
- Reduction in commercial fertilizer use
