Anaerobic digestion

Anaerobic Digestion - Videos

Visualising carbon - no mean feat!

This animated film demonstrates the need to protect the long term carbon stored in soils and...

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Creating a profitable and low carbon dairy farm

At Farming Futures we're often asked how dairy farmers can respond to climate change and remain...

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Anaerobic Digestion - Recent News

All press releases from Farming Futures are listed below. Please get in touch with us if you have a media enquiry. We can put you in touch with industry experts, provide farmer case studies across England, and give comment and opinion on stories.

Free places for farmers and growers to sustainable agri conference

Posted: Wed, 29/09/2010 - 10:23

50 FREE PLACES FOR FARMERS AND GROWERS! The Sustainable Agricultural Partnerships summit is being held in London on 7-8th December and farmers and growers are encouraged to attend. The aim of the summit is explore how farmers, growers,...

New Farming Futures animation

Posted: Fri, 03/09/2010 - 10:28

Did you know that over half of the greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture are nitrous oxide? Or that feeding livestock a healthy diet reduces the amount of methane they burp out? Farming Futures launches a new animation today aimed at...

Anaerobic Digestion - Blogs

Farming Futures - Fast Forward to the future

Posted: Mon, 26/09/2011 - 12:38

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So, it’s happened. Farming Futures, like the iconic friendly local corner shop, is “under new management”.

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Anaerobic digestion workshops, Newcastle University

Posted: Thu, 15/09/2011 - 07:05

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Pastures new - Farming Futures moves to a new home

Posted: Wed, 15/06/2011 - 13:57

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Farming Futures enters a new phase this month. As you know, we were looking for a new host after our five-year Defra funding came to a close. So we're very pleased to announce that the project has a new home! The Centre of Excellence for UK Farming (CEUKF for short) is taking it on.

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Charlotte's web: social media and farming

Posted: Tue, 29/03/2011 - 15:10

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She grew up on a dairy farm, bought her first cow when she was seven, and her husband's a dairy nutritionist. So when Michele Payn-Knoper was stumped by her Holstein dairy calf not weaning, she did what any self-respecting 21st-century farmer would: she went onto Twitter to get some advice. Within 20 minutes she had six ideas.

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Goal! We did it - another award for team FF

Posted: Wed, 23/03/2011 - 11:47

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Farming Futures has scored a hattrick and won the Climate Week award for the 'Best Campaign'. Having recently won a Global Green Award and voted the best website for climate change and agricuture information by Farmers Weekly, we wanted to go one strep further with a climate week award too.

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Anaerobic digestion

Anaerobic digestion, popularly known as AD
or biogas, is the controlled breakdown of organic matter without air to produce a combustible biogas and nutrient rich organic by-product.

AD systems can be located either on-farm or at a larger Centralised Anaerobic Digestion management facility (CAD plant). AD technology can have multiple benefits: increasing farm business profit; helping to mitigate climate change; and helping to dispose of waste.

Further information:

See focus on anaerobic digestion factsheet and Case study 16
Video case study 22 – Philip Pearson
Click here to read the NFU briefing note on and vision for farm scale anaerobic digestion
Click here for Adrian Joynt's AD presentation which was given at our event on 24th September 2008 at Wolford and North Shropshire College
Click here for David Rodda and Nicky Garge's economic modelling presentation which was given at our AD event on 23rd October 2008 in Dorset
Click here for Owen Yeatman's AD for profit and environmental gain presentation which was given at our AD event on 23rd October 2008 in Dorset
Click here for Mike Rowe's anaerobic digestion presentation which was given at our AD event on 23rd October 2008 in Dorset
Click here to see Jonathon Scurlock's presentation on AD for profitable farming and environmental gain which was given at our event on 11th December 2008

Anaerobic Digestion - Factsheets

01 - Food, energy and the future of farming

This factsheet provides an introduction to some of the issues that are going to be a significant part of the future of UK farming. It outlines some of the headline challenges that we are going to have to deal with, but also the...