| John Newton Iowa State Bilsland Memorial Farm Supervisor Aug 1995 | We have used your manure pit additive for several months and I have been pleased with the results. Your additive was used primarily to control odors in a building with a 4 foot deep pit with a pull plug at one end. When we have closed this building up for the winter the smell can get quite offensive. With the use of your additive this did not occur. ... I have been impressed with the reduction in the odor in this building ... |
| Don Schwartz University of Maryland Extension Agent June 1992 |
In the first year that these two 900 sow farrow-to-finish operations came into full production in Washington County just a mile apart, it seemed that the lid came off of the county. Such a conflict between neighbors started that involved agencies all the way up to the Governor! In the ensuing melee, we received all sorts of suggestions on reducing the odors coming from the two 1.5 million gallon pits. However, once the producers began using your products, it was obvious the odor emanating from the pits was reduced to a level that was quite tolerable even at the side of the pits themselves. In addition, when the manure is spread on cropland, the odor is much less brutal than it once was.
If a similar situation should arise sometime in the future, you can be sure that we will be contacting your company again. |
| Kenneth Kidd Western Kentucky University Farm Manager March 1992 | Here at the Western Kentucky University Farm, we have been using Tomco Pit Treatment for the past six months in our dairy pit. Our pit is 100' x 20' x 8' with four openings. One opening is directly in front of our free stalls; and as you can imagine, bedding material (sawdust, straw, limestone) was dumped in this opening. I have been farm manger for the past 16 years and have never been able to set our manure pump into this opening until this spring. The solids would not allow it. During the last six months, we have not agitated the manure pit except when emptying. After the last emptying the liquid was of uniform consistency with no solids floating. |
| Dr. Jeffrey Erickson Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine February 1988 | I thought that you might like to be informed of the success we have had with the use of your product, Liquid In Base Gest-O-Bac. This product dissolves the solid waste and keeps odors to a minimum in our swine nursery, which has an unventilated pit two feet in depth. In addition, your product has also been successful in waste management of our breeding/gestation pens. Wen added to this shallow pit at the recommended time, adequate digestion of the solid waste occurs and complete evacuation of 99% of all waste can be accomplished. It should be noted that these pits are emptied by gravity flow in to a temporary holding pit, which is then evaluated at periodic intervals. We have also utilized Gest-O-Bac in the 165' x 8' ventilated pit of our grower/finisher building to aid in prevention of excess sludge accumulation.
Thank you for formulation a product that works with such efficiency in our waste management system. |
| Mid-west research study | Results from a study conducted by a mid-west research facility associated with a major feed company from a study designed to evaluate the use of pit additives to assist with pumping of animal waste resulting from beef animals resulted in the Project Supervisor commenting that (1) Treatment pit was much more liquid that the control, (3) Treatment solution had a tendency to freeze and (3) Felt the treatment "worked". The conclusions of the study indicated that IN-GEST-O-BAC met the objectives of the study, improving the pumping and clean out of the treated pit. More gallons of manure were removed from the treated pit than from the control pit.
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| The Daily Republic - Mitchell South Dakota written by Republic Staff writer Chuck Blomberg October 1997 | "We haven't had one complaint [in reference to odor] out here," said Jim McPeak, Rochester MN, owner of the Great Plains Swine farm near White Lake. "It's because we keep our lagoon diluted and we use a special bacteria [LIQUID LIVE IN-GEST-O-BAC from Tomco Chemical] in the lagoon that kills the smell."
The syrup-like bacteria McPeak uses comes from Tomco Chemical Company in New York ... McPeak said that many farmers who do not use a treatment for their lagoons end up with a thick crust floating on the surface and when they spray their fields a thick black liquid coats the ground. "Our lagoon looks just like just a lake," he said. "I can tell that the bacteria is working because the lagoon has a purple tint and there are bubbles." |