500 farms wanted for Tipperary biogas project
Teagasc's anaerobic digestor in Grange, Co Meath. A new biogas project planned for mid-Tipperary is seeking for farmers to supply it with slurry and other manures. Leon Mekitarian from Genos Resources is calling on dairy, beef, pig and poultry farmers and horse owners within 50km of Thurles. Genos plans to build a large biogas plant in the county, which will convert slurry to hydrogen gas through a €120m anaerobic digestion plant. We will pay farmers the market value rate for the nutrients within the slurry based on Teagasc values Mekitarian says that farmers who sign up to the company w...
Source: farmersjournal.ie