The death of an eight-year old boy who became overcome by slurry fumes at a County Antrim farm has once again highlighted how dangerous working on farms can be. Robert Christie had been helping his 52 ...

Livestock farming produces large quantities of greenhouse gases, especially methane, which is particularly harmful to the climate. Among other things, it escapes during the storage of animal excrement ...

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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.

Hurry and slurry have emerged as the new high-risk factors on Irish farms as the weather improves after months of relentless rainfall. Farmers are catching up with their work as a busy time looms on ...

Catchment Sensitive Farming is led by Natural England, in partnership with Defra and the Environment Agency. Since 2006, CSF has worked with more than 20,000 farms and helped farmers take more than 70 ...

I WAS distressed to read about the discharge of fish-farm slurry as described by Ian Wilson (April 7). My company operates a salmon hatchery in Argyll and we have a waste water treatment system to ...

Francis Bligh and Tom Fallon from Teagasc have some advice on staying safe around slurry Over the next few weeks, many farmers and contractors will be busy emptying slurry before the October 15 ...

A dairy farm in Dorset has been fined £6,000 and ordered to pay costs of £10,158.50 after cattle slurry was found to be polluting a nearby river. The owners of Manor Farm Dairy, in Hilfield, ...

An Annan farm partnership has been served a £600 penalty for failing to properly maintain slurry storage. Messrs William Forrest were penalised by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency after it ...

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