LIVINGSTON COUNTY- U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will award an organic composting firm, Worm Power, in Avon with a $99,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant. Worm Power is a small commercial earthworm composting company that uses a process it calls "vericomposting," whereby it takes animal waste from dairy cows, composts it, and feeds it to millions of earthworms to … [Read more...]