AF Biomass in administration.

[Arceye]

Looks like they cannot fulfill their obligations, straw must be a bit expensive.

Administrators appointed at AF Biomass in Norfolk | Eastern Daily Press (edp24.co.uk)

Not gloating about the poor sods who will loose money though.
As a livestock farmer I think burning straw should be banned.
It making straw unbearably expensive since power companies will always be able to outbid livestock farmers but surely it is bad for the environment taking all that organic matter off farmland.
When I was a tenant there was a clause that said it was forbidden to take straw off the farm, it had to be used and returned to the land.
Easy money.
Ian

 

[warksfarmer]

Looks like they cannot fulfill their obligations, straw must be a bit expensive.

Administrators appointed at AF Biomass in Norfolk | Eastern Daily Press (edp24.co.uk)

Not gloating about the poor sods who will loose money though.
As a livestock farmer I think burning straw should be banned.
It making straw unbearably expensive since power companies will always be able to outbid livestock farmers but surely it is bad for the environment taking all that organic matter off farmland.
When I was a tenant there was a clause that said it was forbidden to take straw off the farm, it had to be used and returned to the land.
Easy money.
Ian

Look at a different way though. A farm using a biomass boiler to dry grain and provide heating to the house instead of using kero which as well as having bad enviro credentials and how’s its created, it’s got massive road miles.
Straw comes out of the fields around the farm and into the biomass boiler. Then any ash is spread back onto the fields. It’s about as green as it gets compared to other sources of fuel.

 

[Still Farming]

Look at a different way though. A farm using a biomass boiler to dry grain and provide heating to the house instead of using kero which as well as having bad enviro credentials and how’s its created, it’s got massive road miles.
Straw comes out of the fields around the farm and into the biomass boiler. Then any ash is spread back onto the fields. It’s about as green as it gets compared to other sources of fuel.

Carbon neutral apparently