Digestate
- Thread starter Gedd
- Start date
Microplastics……just sayin’…. 
- Location
- Sticky out bit by liverpool
We have had it from food digester spread on with umbilical excellent stuff really makes the crop grow but reliability of when they will show up and the unevenness of how they spread it means that they won't be coming back here. Also the concern of what is actually in it is a problem
Be wary as every AD plant is different. We had some put on some osr and it made a hell of a mess. Where it overlapped on the headlands when turning it scorched the crop and it never recovered.
The Son
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Its good stuff, and as long as no plastic then you will be fine.
Each plant is different though so don't use a generic digestate analysis, make sure you see an uptodate one from the plant.
If they are spreading it for free you are getting a very good deal.
Each plant is different though so don't use a generic digestate analysis, make sure you see an uptodate one from the plant.
If they are spreading it for free you are getting a very good deal.
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
Some light reading for you:
thefarmingforum.co.uk
Autumn manure banned
I,ve heard down the grapevine that the EA are banning autumn slurry and solid muck applications as AHDB have told them there is no crop justification for applications of N or manur containing N apart from on osr This effectively means all and any livestock manures or digestate cannot be...
thefarmingforum.co.uk
- Location
- Ceredigion
Can someone. Explain Digestate please, I thought it came from farms ,so where does plastic fit in ,just so I know if I come across some
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
What do you think happens to your food recycling bin?
caveman
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- Location
- East Sussex.
I'm guessing some of it will contain ground up boxes of those out of date Mr. Kipling apple pies that you didn't buy last time you cycled past a Tesco express.
Good stuff but far too high in readily available N to be applying in the autumn, according to the Environment Agency.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Ok I get that so there is industrial Digestate as well as farm stuff
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Do you put plastic in food recycling bin? I would just put food. Theres another bin for plastic as far as I know. I'm tight, we don't throw food out.
- Location
- Cumbria
Digestate is an excellent organic fertilizer, however why people spread anything on there land without knowing EXACTLY what it is, and what the nutrient balance is, is beyond me.
Spreading ANY form on N at the wrong time of year is a waste of time and money, so spreading on stubbles would only be beneficial if the following crop has the chance to use the N available, so an early crop of winter barley or rape would/should be OK.
Spreading (and ploughing)must be under the spotlight to be banned, so injection is the route surely ?
Regarding plastics and/or contaminants. To spread to land, the digestate must be certified and if from a waste plant pasteurised.
Find out in detail (documented) exactly what your getting and manage appropriately.
After all, it's putting the nutrient back to where it came from in the first place.
Spreading ANY form on N at the wrong time of year is a waste of time and money, so spreading on stubbles would only be beneficial if the following crop has the chance to use the N available, so an early crop of winter barley or rape would/should be OK.
Spreading (and ploughing)must be under the spotlight to be banned, so injection is the route surely ?
Regarding plastics and/or contaminants. To spread to land, the digestate must be certified and if from a waste plant pasteurised.
Find out in detail (documented) exactly what your getting and manage appropriately.
After all, it's putting the nutrient back to where it came from in the first place.
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Only when the in-laws come to stay
Although I only realised recently that most tea bags contain plastic still.
- Location
- Ceredigion
I don't have any waste food ,I eat what I puts on my plate
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I have seen the TV programmes where waste pasties were going into a AD plant.Only when the in-laws come to stay
Although I only realised recently that most tea bags contain plastic still.
A "clever" machine was shredding plastic and opening them before they went into AD plant. Wouldn't want that on our farm.
- Location
- Cumbria
"Biodegradable plastic packaging that is independently certified to BS EN 13432 or either of the similar standards DIN V 54900 or ASTM D6400 that is used to collect food waste shall be permitted. It must, however, be removed either prior to or after the digestion process to meet the physical contaminant limit in BSI PAS 110 or other approved standard "
The meat and flour that made the pastry maybe came from your land in the first place.
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Digestate we had applied this year was from rye, grass silage and draff. Similar to what our cows eating no problem with that.
DeeGee
Member
- Location
- North East Wales
But if ever you do Baldrick will always have it........
He is mega tight.