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

6 Aib 2020

“Brainwaves is looking at farmyard slurry, enormous amounts of which need to be stored,” 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 ‘thin fraction’ slurry:

“There 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.”