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The Perdue AgriRecylce process begins at the farm, where surplus poultry litter is loaded into specially designed, sealed trucks for transport to our 65,000-square-foot manufacturing facility. The trucks are unloaded inside the plant, where a negative-air system prevents dust and odor from escaping to the environment. (The same negative-air system is used in the finished product storage area.) Special filters and scrubbers ensure that the air leaving the plant is cleaner than the outside air.

Raw material is heated and pasteurized, removing moisture and destroying bacteria and weed seed. The dried material is then reduced to a powder before it is transferred to the pellet mill.

Moisture captured in the drying step is re-used in the pelletizing process. The finished product, an OMRI-listed organic fertilizer, is then stored in an enclosed warehouse room.

Product can be shipped by truck or rail or easily transferred to Perdue Incorporated's nearby barge dock or to the company's deep-water international port in Chesapeake, Virginia. Our plant can produce 80,000 tons of finished product per year.