What is Zero Impact Farming?
Anaerobic Digester together with
Photobioreactor and Lab on Chip
Technology, provides for a compact,
efficient, easy to use farm system.
Zero Impact Farming
By integrating the best, most
efficient and proven technologies
Zeecol has created a system that
recycles all waste products into
useful products for your farm. All at
affordable prices. In this way you
can farm in confidence knowing that
your farming operation will have
zero adverse impact on the
environment, while you recover
energy in the form of fuel and
electricity, and valued products in
the form of feed and fertilizer. All
from waste youre throwing away
today. While recovering usable
water from waste as well.
We Start with Manure
Zeecol takes all available animal
and agricultural waste from your
farm and processes it with an
anaerobic digester. Anaerobic means
without air. So, unlike traditional
manure handling, Zeecol keeps the
manure in a sealed container. This
means odor is reduced.
We end up with Saleable Goods
In that container, called an
Anaerobic Digester, Zeecol maintains
a colony of microbes under ideal
conditions. This colony efficiently
produces methane and carbon
dioxide along with a small amount
of hydrogen sulphide by eating the
voltaile solids in the manure. Once
microbes are established other
organic materials are added to the
system to increase gas yeilds.
When the microbes are done a
solid remains thats high in bio-
available nitrogen along with a
clarified liquid that
contains many different
micronutrients.
The gases pass
through a separator that
purifies and liquifies the
various gases for use on
site.
The methane is used
to fuel a generator that
produces all the electricity
for the farm. Surplus
methane is used to power
vehicles.
The hydrogen sulphide is
reduced to sulfate and added the
solids to create a high sulfate
fertilizer replacement.
The carbon dioxide is mixed
with the clarified liquid and used to
support algae growth in a
photobioreactor. This is a glass tube
that maintains ideal conditions for
algae growth. Here the algae
efficiently captures sunlight and
converts the carbon dioxide and
waste nutrients into biomass while
cleansing the water.
The biomass is processed on site
and turned into bio-diesel and feed.
Algae are 400x more efficient than
grass in converting sunlight to
biomass. So only a few hectares of
photobioreactors are needed
to replace hundreds of
hectares of grasslands. Since
water is 100% recycled, and
not lost to the environment,
this productivity occurs in
even arid desert
environments.
Simple with Lab-on-Chip
Getting all these systems to
work efficiently together
takes a biochemistry lab.
Thats why Zeecol developed a lab-
on-chip to make its zero impact
system work well while remaining
easy to use and maintain. The lab
also documents water quality and
farm health independently.
 What Does Zero Impact Farming Cost?
Zero Impact Financing
Its no secret that farming in
New Zealand is under increased
financial pressure. Despite the gains
offered by Zeecol any farm must ask
the question, what is this going to
cost me?
The surprising answer to that
question is that it will cost you less
than you are paying
now.
Thats, because
Zeecol has given just
as much thought to
how farmers will
pay for its
technology, as it
figured out how
they will use and
benefit from it.
Start by Cutting
Your Costs
Zeecol looks at what your
operation currently uses. We then
offer to supply all we can from our
system. We use waste from your
operation. We locate equipment on
your farm. We deliver product
directly to you. We offer a 20%
savings from what you are paying
now, for what you are buying now.
Zeecol delivers FEED, FUEL,
FERTILIZER and ELECTRICITY
to your farm at a 20% savings
using your waste on your site.
Sign an Off-Take Contract on your farm, the quality of the
products and their immediate
Zeecol does not ask its clients to
delivery to you is assured.
buy equipment. Instead, Zeecol asks
farmers to buy the things they are
The Benefits of Participation
already buying today, and offers
them at a substantial savings. Zeecol Since nitrogen in waste is
then builds, owns and operates the controlled and converted to a form
equipment on your farm and more easily absorbed by plants after
maintains it as well. passing through our system, farms
that participate in the Zeecol system
We ask our clients to
can maintain or increase their
sign an off-take
stocking rates! This is an important
contract. Its the
immediate benefit.
same way oil and
gas wells are
Up and Running in 18 months
financed and its
how we finance our Zeecol uses experienced and
operation on your proven vendors for all its products.
farm. For this reason our commitment to
you is that we will have a system up
An efficient and
and running on your farm in
diverse market
eighteen months after signing an off-
exists for financing
take contract.
oil and gas
production.
First Steps
The Zeecol system, with the
We ask clients to sign a Letter of
right kind of contract signed by the
Intent and pay a small participation
farmer, obtains financing the same
fee. We then complete a detailed
way an oil and gas well owner
engineering analysis, and get your
obtains financing.
approval on what must be installed.
You then sign an off-take contract,
Quality and Delivery Assured
and we get that financed and
Since everything is made on commence.
your farm using waste produced on
your farm, using equipment located
 Other Key Questions for Zero Impact Farming
Beyond the environment, beyond
the money, there are other
important question you should ask
when considering Zeecol
TMR for the Cost of Spring Grass?
What if you could have the
benefit of Total Mixed Rations at
near the cost of Spring Grass any
time of the year? How would that
impact your farms operatoin?
Most farms depend on rye grass
throughout the year and supplement
their feed as needed through the
season. Zeecol provides high quality
feeds throughout the year
independently of season!
Change Lactation Timing?
What if you could time your
lactation independently of season to
obtain the best price for your milk
solids? All farmers take advantage
of the season to minimize costs.
What if you could operate
independently of season? You can
with Zeecol!
Maximize Gross Feed Efficiency?
What if you could obtain ideal
mixed rations throughout the year at
prices that let you maximize gross
feed efficiency and maintain low
milk solid costs?
Zero Impact?
What if you could
achieve all these with zero
impact on the environment
through total recycling?
You can, by processing
all your waste through the
Zeecol system. This waste is
used to grow micro algae
efficiently to produce
nutritional and feed products
in addition to fuel and
fertilizer all while reclaiming
the water used.
Stocking Rate?
Freed from the limitations of
your farm, and free of the
restrictions imposed by
environmental considerations, how
far can I raise my stocking rates?
What impact would that have on my
operation?
Next Steps
What must I do next?
First, we count the number of
cows you currently have and review
your costs. We then prepare an
estimate of the benefits you can
achieve, and estimate the size of the
facility for your site.
Second, once you approve
of this preliminary plan, we
prepare a Letter of Intent
and ask you to pay a
participation fee. This is the
only fee you will pay prior
to delivery of product.
Third, with the fee and
letter, we prepare a formal
engineering study and
arrange financing.
Fourth, we get approvals
and commence construction. You
start saving 18 months after we
begin and continue for the contract.
 How Does Zero Impact Farming Work?
Zeecol delivers FEED, FUEL,
FERTILIZER and ELECTRICITY,
along with FRESH WATER all
made from farm wastes.
Zero Impact Function !
! Zeecol collects all farm waste
and processes it through an anaerobic
digester. Zeecol then further processes
the digester waste in a photobioreactor
to produce biomass using colonies of
beneficial single celled organisms like
algae.
! The world population growth
-and increasing average standard of
living, means an increasing demand
on feeds
! Total world feed
output is 614 million
tonnes. Animal feed
consumption already
exceeds direct human
food consumption by a
factor of four. This ratio
can only rise as the
demand for more animal
protein increases.
! The ability to
produce increasing
amounts of feeds is one of
the greatest challenges facing
mankind, perhaps even greater than
the environmental, energy, global
warming and resource crisis.
! There are 7.2 billion people
in the world. It is estimated that by
2030 there will be 2 billion more
mouths to feed. This world population
growth is driving meat consumption,
and more meat means more grain, so
feed demand and animal feed production with daily harvest all year
supplements are rising! round. This brings more security of
supply of raw materials to the feed
market. Algae also possesses
Microalgae plays an important role in
advantages in terms of productivity
the future. They are one of the
and can be cultivated in non-arable
potential sources of foods and feeds
areas.
provided by Nature with the potential
to feed an ever growing and affluent
population. ! The large number evaluations
have established the suitability of algal
biomass as a valuable feed over the
! Microalgae are the
years. Thirty percent of the world
photosynthetic organisms in the first
algal production is sold for animal
levels of the aquatic food-chains, on
feed today. It will only grow in the
which an ever growing
part of our food will come future.
from. We domesticate these
plants, as we have done
with higher plants, to
manage their large scale
production for a wide
range of applications,
including feeds.
! The survival,
growth, development,
productivity and fertility of
animals are a reflection of
their health. Feed quality is
the most important factor
influencing animal health, especially in
connection with intensive breeding
conditions and the recent trend to
avoid "chemicals" like antibiotics
! Microalgae possess many
Table 1. General composition of some
unique biochemical properties that are
animal feeds and foods, and microalgae
playing an important roles of
species (% of dry matter of maximum
nutrition. In addition to the
values achieved in each commodity),
nutritional value that microalgae feeds
provide to animal health, algae allows