Video: Making the most of digestate applications
Thomas Neely from Entrust Environmental explains how farmers can benefit from applying digestate as an organic manure.
With rising prices for artificial fertilisers many farmers are looking for cost effective alternatives. Organic manures can offer a good source of nutrients and increasingly farmers are looking towards digestate. Thomas explains more about digestate production and some of the ways that timing of application can benefit the farming business.
We have related Technical Note (TN736): Optimising the application of livestock farmyard manures and slurries, and you can find more information about ‘Making Better Use of Organic Fertilisers and Manures‘
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