Farming

UK farm resilience is critical to the agricultural industry and its rural communities. Anaerobic Digestion plays a pivotal role in ensuring the sustainability and adaptability of the farming sector in the face of environmental and economic challenges.

Anaerobic Digestion (AD) offers a real solution to building resilience into your farming business. AD converts organic material into valuable biogas and organic fertiliser, supporting the principles of a circular economy and renewable energy generation. Greenacre partnerships enable farmers to enhance their economic resilience and contribute to the UK’s transition towards a more sustainable and environmentally responsible agricultural future.

Benefits to Farming

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  • Supplying feedstock to AD helps to enable the adoption of more sustainable farming practices such as appropriate minimal tillage, inter-crop cover cropping, organic manure return and rotational diversity.

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  • AD embodies the principles of the circular economy by taking organic material from farms, converting it to usable products and returning biofertiliser to the same farm. This resonates with the UK’s growing focus on sustainability and stewardship of the environment.

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  • Improved soil health resulting from the long-term adoption of sustainable farming practices and application of digestate will improve the resilience of soil and the economic resilience of the farming business.

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  • Diverting animal manures via AD helps to manage growing regulatory pressure relating to the storage and application of these manures and reduce on-farm capital expenditure required to update current systems. These nutrients will be returned to land in the quantity required as digestate.