Twice a day at milking parlours all over New Zealand, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, sheds are hosed down to wash away ...

Limerick dairy farmer, Martin Crowe expressed his passion for utilising slurry and dairy washings on his farm which is ...

Stephen Robb reports on a recent trip to Belgium to visit farm-scale AD plants and asks if they can work here.

For each dairy cow on a farm, a minimum of 0.33m3/week of slurry storage is required, equivalent of 74 gallons. A typical 100 cow herd requiring 16 weeks minimum storage will therefore need 528m³ of ...

It is also a time when farmers and contractors are working on slurry tanks, which are perhaps among the most potentially dangerous locations on any farm. East Londonderry UUP Association Chairman ...

In short, with tin tanks, you can buy an entry-level Agricultural tank with coating tested to 12V, an Agri-Industrial tank tested to 1100V, and an Industrial tank tested at 1500V. While the first ...

The new Garryhorn steading was purpose built in 2009 and provides a state of the art dairy complex including a 50-point rotary parlour, 500 cubicles, two silage pits, slurry storage for two million ...

A new start-up business will shortly launch a mobile slurry separation service in the Mid Ulster area, writes Richard ...

Dairy Management: good week for slurry spreading - 20 January 2025. Aidan Brennan says that favourable weather and ground conditions mean it’s a good time to get slurry spread, when permitted to do so ...

20pc more slurry storage is needed on dairy farms to help meet water quality targets, and this additional requirement is likely to be incorporated into the next Nitrates Action Programme post-2025.

Measures to avoid water entering slurry storage tanks were listed by Kilkenny-based Teagasc dairy advisor Nigel Kennington in a recent edition of the Environmental Edge podcast. “Something as ...