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UCC team finds way to turn slurry into cash cow for farmers
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