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In a quest to make the most out of their on-farm energy generation, one farmer in Shrops has invested in drying floors powered by heat drawn from an anaerobic digester and ground source heat pumps. CPM paid them a visit. This system actually makes money when we’re drying – it’s a no-brainer. By Charlotte Cunningham As morning breaks over the village of Ruyton-XI, Shrops, a glimmer of sunlight bounces off of the colossal AD plant at Wykey farm. A forage wagon arrives and starts to offload a fresh cut of lucerne onto the floor of the adjacent shed as farmer, Simon Gittins, explains how the energy generated from the AD plant will shortly power the drying floor the lucerne is currently piling up on. With such an impressive, circular system in place, you’d be forgiven for thinking this infrastructure had been in place for a lifetime, however, Wykey farm didn’t always look this way. Ten years ago, the farm was looking for a new direction – the local sugar beet factory had shut, and they had recently gone out of dairy and potato production, explains Simon. “Our dairy herd was bang in the middle of a growing village, there…
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