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Stephen Temple: Focus on Biogas
Copys Green Farm, Norfolk, is home to one of the few anaerobic digesters in the country. Cattle manure and silage from Stephen Temple’s dairy farm and whey from his cheesemaking enterprise are fed into the facility, producing biogas that can be used for heat and electricity production. With surplus energy sold to the grid, by-product ‘digestate’ used as a free fertiliser replacement and the much-reduced cost of disposing manure, silage and whey, this is a shrewd investment. In this case study, Stephen talks about the trials and tribulations of installing and using his new plant...
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Anaerobic Digestion - Factsheets
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...
Ideas on mitigating climate change.
Find out about the controlled breakdown of organic matter to produce a combustible gas - the process known as anaerobic digestion.Anaerobic Digestion - Case Studies
Rob is a Gloucestershire dairy farmer, milking 110 cows on his 140 acre dairy. In 1993 he installed a 25 cubic metre anaerobic digestion system,...
David Ball is farm manager for Kemble Farms Ltd. In 2008 they completed the installation of a 300kW anaerobic digestion plant, which complemented...
Copys Green Farm, Norfolk, is home to one of the few anaerobic digesters in the country. Cattle manure and silage from Stephen Temple’s dairy...