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one man's ruminations about faith, family, and livin' the good life rose marie belforti, holds one of the pressed briquettes just after formation on the press and prior to drying. my friend rose belforti is famous for making raw milk probiotic kefir cheese, as explained in this youtu*e video making cow-manure-and-bedding briquettes for burning in a wood stove.  i have not seen rose's new briquette making machine in person, and i have not burned any cow-patty briquettes in my own woodstove, so i can't give a personal opinion. but i can tell you that i love to see down-to-earth inventions like this! the following is a news release. briquetting a better, burnable cow patty: fa*mer turns livestock waste into fuel source . a fa*mer recently completed a usda northeast sare funded project to demonstrate a hydraulic press used to make fuel briquettes from manure and bedding.  the machine, dubbed the biomas* beast by its creator, rose marie belforti, was built for $5,766 and produced briquettes at a cost of production and the heating value suggests that these briquettes deliver energy at a cost of about $4.4 per million btu (roughly the equivalent of $105 per cord of firewood or $0.60 per gallon of fuel oil). the briquettes burn easily and well in a wood stove or fireplace. rose marie belforti was interested in finding ways to manage excess livestock manure on her small fa*m. she learned that manure fuel briquettes have been used on small fa*ms by many cultures around the world for centuries, but typically they have been made by hand and do not have the btu’s acceptable to meet modern heating needs. biomas* fuel briquette machines currently on the market in the u.s. are designed for large production and are not practical for small fa*m use. therefore, belforti sought to design and test a prototype of an she was able to test the idea out with the support of a fa*mer grant project funded by the northeast sustainable agriculture research and education program (sare). belforti received a sare fa*mer grant last year to design and construct a hydraulic press to form fuel briquettes