Interest is growing in farm-scale anaerobic digesters, using slurry as a feedstock, driven by the need to reduce manufactured inputs – for economic and environmental reasons – and the cost of energy.

Manor Farm Dairy in Dorchester, where slurry had polluted a nearby river (Image: Environment Agency) A dairy farm in Dorset has been fined for allowing cattle slurry to overflow from a lagoon, ...

A Dorset dairy farm has been handed a hefty fine after polluting a local watercourse with cattle slurry severely affecting up to four kilometres of river habitat. Manor Farm Dairy Ltd, based in ...