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Those digesters are more fudge accounting when it comes to gas production. They almost always involve adding large amounts of Molasses to the slurry to increase the production rates. Pig slurry on it's own would take too long to decompose in the digester. Cattle slurry would take much much longer

If they pay for slurry, and the transportation of it to the digester then I'd consider.

I don't think I'd be confident bringing stuff from a plant and spreading it. You're bringing the remnants of all types of stuff from all manner of places and spreading it back on your land. There would want to be water tight contracts in place with annual soil analysis done if that stuff started spreading disease or poisoned the soil

But that makes no sense. What do we use to feed the ground? Artificial fertiliser made from fossil fuels? Restrictions on the way it's spread, where and when makes more sense than banning altogether. Forcing everyone organic and then not be able to use a natural feed source for the ground growing our crops would be a mad move

I've heard reports of a farmer who was spreading some stuff from a plant or something (details sketchy now I'm afraid). Shortly after spreading it he noticed the cows milk yield falling and a few other weird things. When the soil was tested it showed that it was poisoned from the stuff that was spread. No solving it really until it washed out of the ground. Basically ruined his land

Some devil in the detail with the 24 month beef.

Surely the emissions footprint of more intensive ration feeding will cancel any saving in killing cattle younger ??

this sounds like nothing but an accountancy number shuffling attempt.

Probably a new payment on under 24 month kills.

More sexed semen in the dairy herd, if it's just to reduce the average age of Killing it leaves more flexibility in how it is reached.

I see no chance whatsoever the targets will be even approached and a lot of expense and pain for farmers and other taxpayers before the realisation sets in. The west is headed for a significant populist rebellion against the CO2 reduction push, which has been so hyped up it resembles a panicked stampeed for one small fire exit in a stadium on fire.

There isn't sufficient money to be extracted from taxpayers pockets to pay for all that is being proposed. Governments have pushed this agenda to the point many places in Europe and the US are one weather event from the lights going out. Food prices will go up, transport cost will go up, Energy prices are already going up, taxes are going up. If they print as much money as I suspect, it will trigger hyper inflation.

That was medical waste and in no way related to digestate

digestate is unbelievable stuff

Who needs cows?