Fall 2010 Update
September 20, 2010
Another heating season is upon us. We’ve had a busy summer. After making grass pellets for a couple of years, we felt that some changes would make our mill more efficient. We have been working on our equipment, from the grinding of the hay through the delivery of the pellets to the bin. We have also made big improvements in our dust control system.
We’ve been very pleased with farmer’s response to bringing us the low moisture, weedy material that we need to make a good heating pellet.
We also are going to be experimenting with canola and soybean stubble.
We are working with Dr. Cherney at Cornell University, assisting him in his study of different kinds of cellulose; from soil sampling through the burn and stack emissions. Click here to see our original post about this.
FYI–The NYC watershed project has expanded. Check out all that is happening on their website.
In her garden, May is excited to be using the grass pellets to mix with our heavy soil. Since the weed seeds have been heated out in the processing; we have been sprinkling a few around flowers and the pellets expand about 4 times into great mulch, as they absorb moisture.
Not to be outdone, Mike laid his seed potatoes out in a row and poured on grass pellets, threw a little straw over them and easily uncovered and picked up a nice crop of potatoes this fall.
Our grass pellets are still selling at $225.00/ton or $4.50/40# bag.
We are making kiln dried pine pellets for horse bedding. Cat owners and animal shelters have discovered them and are using them for an all natural, compost able cat litter. These also sell at $225.00/ton or $4.50/40# bag.
We are still carrying the excellent quality Curran wood pellets, manufactured in N.Y. State , for the owners of stoves that have difficulty with the extra ash of grass pellets. These are lab and customer tested to be the lowest ash, highest BTU pellet available in the area. Selling for $ 250.00/ton or $5.00/40# bag.
Please notice that all our pellets are the same price by the ton/bag.