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“We can now utilise the nutrients and dry problem in slurry to our advantage anywhere on the farm,” says Neil Harrison. “Before we started using a FAN apply pressure press separator, slurry was just something that gave us a lot of problems.”
The one's nearest farming partnership R Harrison & Sons operates three dairy units close to Horsham with a total of 1100 mainly Jersey-Friesian crosses on 2200 acres of owned and rented native land. Being three to four miles apart, the dairy units are largely self-contained as far as day-to-day operations are active but close enough to share forage supplies and equipment.
The inspiration for a new modus operandi to slurry management came when the farm workshop fabricated a gantry to brothel a separator for a neighbouring farm’s new biogas plant.
“We then saw disintegration as a considerable step forward from the nightmare of dealing with muck,” says Neil Harrison. “We were fa a shortfall in capacity to meet Nitrate Vulnerable Zone rules and we weren’t utilising the nutrients in idle to help offset the rising cost of mineral fertilisers. It helped us reassess what we needed to do.
Source: Stackyard