The North American Manure Expo is returning to Wisconsin on Aug. 9-10 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arlington Agriculture Research Station.

The two-day event is a combination of trade show with more than 60 vendors as well as education sessions, tours, and field demonstration events. The Expo will feature the latest technology and advancements in manure management and application. Aug. 9 events will include tours of EnTech Solutions Digester in Middleton, the Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial, manure application research at the Arlington Research Station, and a manure separation facility tour of the Arlington Research Station dairy.

The tour of the Entech Solutions Digester will include the dairy manure-to-RNG digester, which highlights a first-of-its-kind microgrid designed to improve operations and lower the facilities Carbon Intensity score. The system features more than 2MW of solar ground mound and rooftop, battery energy storage and DC fast charging.

The Arlington Research Station tour will focus on runoff research related to tillage, cover crop, and dairy liquid manure interaction within a corn silage cropping system. The tour also includes a stop at the Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems trial which was implemented in 1989. The trial is designed with real world farming in mind. The cropping systems represent a range of farming practices in Wisconsin that are grouped by enterprise type including cash grain, dairy forage, or perennial native grass-based systems.

The Arlington Research Station Manure Separation and Facility tour will showcase manure separation processes, movement of liquid manure and separated solids, and manure gas safety.

Other day-one events include head-to-head manure agitation demonstrations, equipment safety school with a hose pressure safety demonstration, solid separator demonstrations and more.

Aug. 10 events include educational sessions, solid and liquid land manure application demonstrations, dragline and more. A poster session on current manure management research and manure spill response is also planned.

The Expo is free to attend with a $20 fee for the educational tours on Aug. 9. Certified Crop Advisor Continuing Education Credits are available.

The Expo will be held near the dairy research facility at the Arlington Research Station on Badger Lane west of State Highway 51. For a full schedule of events, register to attend, apply to exhibit, or to pre-register for a tour, visit manureexpo.com