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Animal Waste Treat (AWT) is the spore-forming Bacillus blend we build to digest the crust, sludge, and odor that choke manure lagoons, dairy and swine pits, and CAFO storage. It goes after the fats, proteins, and fibrous solids that pile up under heavy loading, restoring open water and hydraulic flow while cutting the hydrogen sulfide and ammonia behind most odor complaints. The strains are facultative and hold up across wide pH and temperature swings, so they keep working through seasonal changes and variable manure inputs.
The numbers above are real field results, including the 52.5% pumping cut AWT delivered at Meadow Rock Dairy in 45 days.
Key Benefits:
A manure lagoon is the earthen basin where a dairy, hog, or poultry operation stores and breaks down liquid manure before it goes to the field. When the biology falls behind the loading, the solids stop digesting: a crust forms on top, sludge builds on the bottom, the basin loses volume, and the odor climbs. That is the state AWT is built to reverse, digesting the fats, proteins, and fibrous solids that form crust and sludge, and breaking down the volatile fatty acids, hydrogen sulfide, and ammonia behind lagoon odor. Because the strains are facultative and hold up across a wide pH and temperature range, they keep working through seasonal swings and uneven manure loading.
AWT is a high-CFU, spore-forming Bacillus blend. The strains are facultative anaerobes, so they stay active in the oxygen-starved conditions of a deep pit or a crusted lagoon, and they produce the protease, cellulase, and lipase enzymes that cut proteins, fibers, and fats down to liquid. As the solids digest, the crust and bottom sludge shrink, open water returns, and the lagoon holds more of its designed volume. AWT also carries denitrifying strains that move excess nitrogen out as nitrogen gas and support the nitrifiers that keep ammonia and nitrite in balance, which steadies the nitrogen cycle and cleans up the effluent you later pump to the field.
AWT is dosed by volume, which is what a lagoon needs. For a pit dosed by head count instead, the same bacteria ship as a drop-in tablet: Pit Puck, one tablet per week per 100 cows or 300 finisher hogs, no mixing and no dosing equipment.
Most lagoon odor comes from volatile fatty acids and the hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and mercaptans that accumulate when digestion stalls. AWT digests the fatty acids at the source instead of masking them, and the stable biology it rebuilds resists the seasonal upsets that set off odor complaints in the first place.
Crust and bottom sludge are what pull a lagoon out of service, and digesting them is what AWT does best. High protease, cellulase, and lipase activity liquefies the fibrous crust and bottom sludge that eat into lagoon capacity, so a basin that had turned into a solid mat returns to open water. Run on a regular schedule, AWT works as a standing manure digestant and waste lagoon cleaner, keeping the lagoon fluid instead of letting heavy sludge layers rebuild. At Meadow Rock, crust, bottom sludge, and total suspended solids all dropped as the lagoon reopened to 95% water.
AWT lowers the organic load (BOD and COD) and total suspended solids in the lagoon, which keeps the biology stable and the liquid more uniform. That means fewer upsets, clearer effluent for irrigation or discharge, and an easier path to nutrient-management and water-quality targets.
A stable lagoon holds its nutrients in more usable form. In a Wisconsin dairy trial using AWT in its slow-release Pit Puck form, the treated lagoon delivered an added 64.6 lbs of plant-available nitrogen and 71.6 lbs of potassium per acre while cutting phosphorus by 13.4 lbs per acre at a 20,000 gallon rate, giving the farm more room to apply under its nutrient-management plan. Cleaner biology also protects the methanogens in anaerobic digesters, which supports steadier methane for operations that recover energy.
Every hour of pumping and every load of hauling is diesel, labor, and time. By keeping the lagoon open and the solids digested, AWT cuts pumping and dredging frequency, extends storage life, and reduces the chemicals and odor maskers a struggling lagoon usually needs. At Meadow Rock, pumping alone fell from 80 to 38 hours per cycle, a 52.5% reduction.
Most operations notice the odor drop first, usually within about two weeks, followed by measurable sludge and crust reduction over the next one to two months as the enzymes work through the solids. Meadow Rock is a useful benchmark: 60 to 70% open water and a 31% pumping cut by day 30, then 95% open water and a 52.5% pumping cut by day 45, on a weekly schedule.
AWT is a high-CFU, spore-forming Bacillus blend made in the USA with lot traceability and verified CFU counts. It ships in powder, liquid, slow-release block, and tablet forms, so you can dose a single pit or a full CAFO lagoon the same way, in sample through bulk quantities, with private label and OEM options for distributors.
Tell us your lagoon or pit size and your current pumping schedule, and we will recommend a starting dose and send a quote.
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Blocks
Apply one 2lb (900g) tab in lagoon per month per:
Tabs
Apply one 130 gram tab in lagoon per week per:
