Boosting soil and slurry value on dairy farms

14-11-2022 | Smart farming | Article

Healthy soils are absolutely key to making the most of what you have, as they store over 10 billion tonnes of carbon. Photo: Canva

Discussions at the UK’s Dairy Show at Shepton Mallet centred around all things ‘manure’ – how it can be collected, stored, optimised and applied to fertilise and maximise soil health. Capturing on-farm fugitive gas from slurry lagoons can reduce energy bills and enhance the environment by reducing greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions. Mark Clayton, chief technology officer at Qube Renewables, said the company’s removable lagoon cover, which operates as an aerobic digester, was provi