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The new Slurry Infrastructure grant will help farmers improve their slurry storage.
There is a serious problem with fertilizer accessibility. In the EU, fertilizer prices went up 149% from September 2021 to September 2022.
The PIGPEF project for calculating the environmental footprint in the pork value chain, presented by 333Corporate together with UVIC, GSP Lleida, i+Porc, and INNOVACC, is awarded one of the AEI 2022 grants.
Using solar energy to evaporate part of the water from the slurry can be of interest, avoiding volatization of ammonia. Solar drying can be combined with other strategies.
European Green Deal: EU reaches agreement on national emission reductions from transport, buildings, waste and agriculture.
The Communication exposes several good practices, such as promoting the use of organic fertilizers.
The result is a high-quality biomethane as a direct substitute for fossil natural gas as well as a liquid bio-CO2 in a food grade quality standard.
Removing nitrogen from slurry by transforming it into N2 can be done biologically or by physical-chemical methods, the latter of which are in the experimental phase for slurry.
France has more than 1,400 anaerobic digestion facilities, with the agricultural sector accounting for 47% of the total.
DLG Innovations Committee selects one gold and five silver medals
The most important aspects of the plan are animal welfare, reducing antibiotic use, and CO2 emissions.
Although these strategies do not include anaerobic digestion in the combination of processes and therefore do not take advantage of its benefits, they do provide a higher organic matter content in the recovered effluents.
In a surplus situation, the best option is to export the digestate obtained following anaerobic digestion. If the cost of transportation is not affordable, other alternatives should be considered. Here we explain which ones.
Outdoor pig producers can now reap the benefits of the well-proven Transition Feeder with a new, no-fuss solar powered model.