date:May 14, 2012
d biogas to heat their gas houses.
Vegetable and pig farmers tend to be located in the same parts of the country so their collaboration would be the most likely, and actually, this system would work better in the UK than in Germany because of the structure of our food sector.
Farmers could also get involved in recycling residue material from food processing, but that would mean much larger digesters, and it poses the problem of the complexity of importing waste.
A few farmers in the UK are