Agriculture

Agricultural technologies developed at UVM include natural wood finishes, farm animal therapeutics, probiotic dairy products, and low-cost wastewater treatment systems.

Title	Inventors	Case #	Description	Podcasts
Wastewater treatment system offers effective, low-cost phosphorus removal	Drizo	252	An inexpensive wastewater treatment system removes up to 95 percent of phosphorus from effluent. (Also in Environment)
Dairy by-product makes fungal pest management cost-effective	Costa	250	Sweet whey makes fungal control of environmental pests cost-effective by increasing the number of spores as much as 100-fold. (Also in Environment)
Genetic approach prevents mastitis, animal agriculture's most costly disease	Bramley Plaut Kerr	97	Transgenic cows that secrete lysostaphin are highly resistant to mastitis, while traditional approaches have yielded less than 15 percent success rates.