"We really just got going about 14 weeks ago," says Barry Chase, compost manager for White Mountain Composting and Recycling. Chase spent most of his first six weeks on the job preparing a composting pad with a rock and clay base and attending the state's compost operator certification course. He also graded the three acre site in the Capitan Mountains of south central New Mexico for proper drainage and vehicle access. "Initially I just set up three small piles to test different mixes," Chase says, "but now we have seven or eight active windrows, each about 35 yards long."
A contract brings in approximately 20,000 cy per year of stable bedding and manure from the Ruidoso Downs …
