We have a muck lagoon we do not use. It is all above board with planning permission and EA input. There are neighbouring farmers, not even direct close neighbours, who would like to use it as they haven't sufficient capacity of storage on their farm steads. What is a fair charge for this? I know it depends on capacity/size etc but any thoughts welcome.
what is use of a muck lagoon worth?
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Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Keeping the slurry seems quite a reward to me. But watching with interest.
deleted user 837354
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The nutrients alone would probably justify letting them use it. Being able to apply a shed load of P and K when and how you choose would be invaluable IMO.
The muck would be going back on their grass, it would be for their benefit.
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- Slough
FOC you keep the slurry surely. They pay to transport to you you pay to spread it
deleted user 837354
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By the sounds of it the neighbour is already using the land, they just want to use the farm's muck store now as well.
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- Slough
FOC you keep the slurry surely. They pay to transport to you you pay to spread it.
if your getting nothing out of it call your nearest Digester and mention you have an empty lagoon. I’d wager a fair amount it would be full of Digestate for free before new year!
if your getting nothing out of it call your nearest Digester and mention you have an empty lagoon. I’d wager a fair amount it would be full of Digestate for free before new year!
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- Slough
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- Wiltshire/Dorset/Somerset
What your location? I may have a better proposal
Skintagain
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- Perched on the Pennines
Sounds to me that the neighbour just wants to rent the store to get them out of a corner with slurry regs use as a satellite store if you like. They will likely build their own in time or maybe the OP will end up with a full muck store to use when the rent dries up
Biffa and various AD plants will pay £240 an artic load to offload digestate, a decent hole will soon hold £10-15k
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- Wiltshire/Dorset/Somerset
- Location
- Wiltshire
Where are you? You can have as much of mine as you want. You have to haul it 
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- Aberdeenshire
I guess the op is looking for a cubic per month rate...
£1 per cubic per month? Is my guess...
But really it's as much as you think you can get away with...
£1 per cubic per month? Is my guess...
But really it's as much as you think you can get away with...
agcon1
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- derbyshire
We have a 1700m3 slurry store that we inherited with our farm as it used to be a dairy unit, its all arable now... come the beginning of December all the local ad plants are suddenly our best friend, weve had as much as £7cube for taking it, were contractors as well with our own umbilical so spread it ourselves, dont be conned by taking it for nothing, its a waste product to them!!
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- Wiltshire/Dorset/Somerset
You’re one of the few. Most AD plants will pay to put pop up towers on big blocks of land and contract the farmer in to cheap Digestate for a few years. We never have and not needed to pay anyone to take it, best case scenario is you get it FOC instead of paying £5/t for it!
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