Webster’s Dictionary defines the word “sustainable” as an adjective that means a resource is “able to be used without being completely used up or destroyed.” In agricultural and environmental circles, defining what constitutes a sustainable crop or practices is much more difficult to define. To the consumer, the basic tenants of producing agricultural crops that [...]
As part of its normal operations, Genera Energy, like any other industrial installation, is required to operate under the Tennessee Storm Water Multi-Sector General Permit for Industrial Activities. This permit requires companies to create a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan that identifies potential sources for pollutants and best management practices to help mitigate these risks. [...]
We at Genera Energy understand that biofuels are a renewable energy source that can minimize the United States’ dependency on imported petroleum and improve the domestic economy. Systems for producing, harvesting, collecting, preprocessing, storing, and transporting diverse forms of biomass can operate more efficiently if the biomass they process is uniform and consistent in terms [...]
Typically, herbicide use is fairly limited in well-established bioenergy crops such as perennial grasses. These high yielding crops may receive casual maintenance applications of herbicide for specific weed problems since the dense canopy has a tendency to crowd out most weed competition. Nevertheless, the crop establishment years are particularly vulnerable to weed pressure which can [...]
Many years ago I was working in a corn processing facility and the company was very comfortable with the material handling of corn and several other products. For the most part, you put in a well sloped cylindrical cone bottom in storage bins and mechanically conveyed with belts and conveyors. Materials dropped and flowed well. [...]
Intellectual property is generally a company’s intangible creations of the mind. It consists of anything from processes, products, trade secrets, customer lists, inventions, names, or creative writings. Intellectual property for many companies may be as much if not more valuable than its physical assets. Because of the very nature of these intangible assets, protection of [...]
“We are shutting down the processing line because we have an equipment failure.” These are some of the most dreaded words in production businesses. If you’re down for an equipment, it can cost precious time, resources, and above all, potential revenue and profit! Equipment shutdowns prevent companies from meeting the needs of their customers and [...]
Operating in the agricultural world inevitably means that we also operate at the whims of the weather. Talk to any farmer and you will find that the conversation quickly turns to rainfall amounts (or lack thereof), wet fields, late arriving Spring, early arriving Summer, temperature extremes, scorched crops, bumper crops when precipitation has been good, [...]
Once we understand that efficiency is really about reducing waste, then we must determine how we will measure our effectiveness. It takes us back to the quote from Kelvin: If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it. It is critically important to measure the significant parameters in your operation without wasted time and effort. [...]
You can easily web search this topic and come up with dozens of diagrams and repetitive examples for being efficient. The trick for everyone is the implementation of an ongoing and ever improving execution of efficiency. Here are three quotes that I think do a good job of helping us wrap our mind around efficiency. [...]
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