Stray Voltage No Match For "Ertlizer"

Stray Voltage No Match For "Ertlizer" DAIRY EQUIPMENT & IDEAS Dairy Equipment & Ideas 30-1-29 After losing 8 to 10 cows a year from what he believed was stray voltage, Scott Ertl figured out a solution. Now the dairyman is marketing his knowledge along with a device he calls the "Ertlizer". "I ran into a guy who showed me how to dowse for electrical currents," says Ertl. "He walked through my barn and told me I had two choices - sell the farm, or sell out the cows and crop farm." Ertl didn't like either option but it confirmed that it was stray voltage that was causing his trouble. His first step was to walk the farm and separate any piece of conductive metal from soil contact. It helped, but didn't eliminate the problem. Ertl says the idea for the Ertlizer simply occurred to him. It gathers stray voltage and focuses it away from the area where it is placed. Ironically, it uses 110-volt current in the process. The stray voltage is then directed away from the barn by a conducting rod buried beneath the unit. While it may sound hard to believe, it worked. Ertl says his cows stopped dying, their mastitis cleared up and immune problems went away. Cows that had not come into heat for months suddenly came into heat. This was after having tried everything else he could think of, including rewiring the barn. Now Ertl is helping other farmers identify the stray voltage paths in their barns. Through word of mouth, he has sold more than 155 Ertlizers in the past 11 months. He offers it with a money back guarantee for $700. Buyers can use it for 90 days and, after waiting 30 days, get their money back if not satisfied. For $500 they own it outright. Part of the package includes having Ertl dowse the problem barn and yard. "I can walk through a barn and mark on the floor where the current is coming through the floor," says Ertl. "When I ask the farmer which cows are having trouble, 9 out of 10 times they are the ones where I marked." One of the first effects he saw after installing his Ertlizer was a jump in somatic cell count (a milk quality measure which, when it goes up, is usually a sign of infection). He has since seen the same thing happen on other farms where his unit has been installed. "It may jump to 700,000 to 800,000 for a few days and then drop back down," says Ertl. He believes that once the impaired immune system kicks back in, it cleans out the system. He notes that in his own herd, when mastitis does show up, he can successfully clear it up. Previously the same treatments simply didn't work. Ertl is convinced that some cows, like some people, are sensitive to the very low level voltage. He says electrical fields surround us, and current is constantly being fed into the earth by grounding wires. As he says, it has to go somewhere. He notes that he is very sensitive while his wife is not sensitive at all. His youngest children always had trouble sleeping in their beds. He dowsed their room and identified a current flow that went through the beds. Once he installed an Ertilizer unit near the house, the current went away and the children's sleeping problems did as well, One experiment he likes to try in a dairy barn where a farmer is having problems with his cows is to turn on the barn cleaner. "Any motor that sits horizontal with the ground will send out electromagnetic fields perpendicular to the motor shaft," he says. "Watch the cows, and if they are affected, they will stand up." Ertl recommends such motors be wrapped in standard blue electrical tape, which seems to confine the field to the motor. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Scott Ertl, 7775 U.S. Highway 10, Marshfield, Wis. 54449 (ph 715 387-1687; ertlacresgmx @tznet.com).

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