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UCC team finds way to turn slurry into cash cow for farmers
6 Aib 2020
鈥淏rainwaves is looking at farmyard slurry, enormous amounts of which need to be stored,鈥 professor Jansen explains.
In concentrated amounts slurry is a good fertiliser, he explains, adding however, that farms also have enormous amounts of a watery slurry known as 鈥榯hin fraction鈥 slurry:
鈥淭here are enormous volumes of this across Ireland. Farmers must store it, so what we want to come up with are ways of using thin fraction slurry to generate value.鈥