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Download PDF Grass and forage crops continue to gain popularity among arable farmers for their soil enhancing, weed suppressing and biodiversity encouraging properties, with many now using the cut as a fuel for anaerobic digesters. CPM looks at the latest trends and harvesting machinery. Biomass production is developing fast in response to the growing demand for sustainable fuels. By Melanie Jenkins Forage crops are increasingly appearing in arable rotations because of the ground level benefits they provide, as well as for the potential they have as an alternative revenue stream. One of these markets is for anaerobic digestion (AD). Grass, maize and other forage crops are able to stabilise and supplement other AD inputs such as slurries and can slot nicely into arable rotations to extend them for better weed suppression, increasing soil health or for carbon sequestration. Philip Cosgrave, agronomist and grassland specialist at Yara, has noticed an increase in the amount of enquiries he gets from arable farmers who have started to grow grass in their rotation. “There are certainly more farmers who’ve had no grass in the rotation for years starting to look at ways of improving their soil health.” For those new to grass and forage…
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Download PDF Grass and forage crops continue to gain popularity among arable farmers for their soil enhancing, weed suppressing and biodiversity encouraging properties, with many now using the cut as a fuel for anaerobic digesters. CPM looks at the latest trends and harvesting machinery. Biomass production is developing fast in response to the growing demand for sustainable fuels. By Melanie Jenkins Forage crops are increasingly appearing in arable rotations because of the ground level benefits they provide, as well as for the potential they have as an alternative revenue stream. One of these markets is for anaerobic digestion (AD). Grass, maize and other forage crops are able to stabilise and supplement other AD inputs such as slurries and can slot nicely into arable rotations to extend them for better weed suppression, increasing soil health or for carbon sequestration. Philip Cosgrave, agronomist and grassland specialist at Yara, has noticed an increase in the amount of enquiries he gets from arable farmers who have started to grow grass in their rotation. “There are certainly more farmers who’ve had no grass in the rotation for years starting to look at ways of improving their soil health.” For those new to grass and forage…
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