Bob Murphy’s Double Trouble Farms may be the most cutting-edge poultry operation on the Eastern Shore right now.
But the significance of the farm in Rhodesdale is not the poultry itself. It’s the technology used to repurpose chicken manure.
The Maryland Department of Agriculture and Irish agri-tech company Biomass Heating Solutions Limited, or BHSL, have committed nearly $3 million toward manure-to-energy technology that they hope will significantly reduce the impact of Murphy’s chickens — and perhaps one day all Eastern Shore poultry — on the Chesapeake Bay.
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