Teagasc’s new Anaerobic Digestion project begins
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A multi-disciplinary team at Teagasc have held the first online meeting of the technical working group for a new Anaerobic Digestion (AD) project called FLEET - the first of its kind in Ireland.
The project will identify farm scale, landscape level and national level economic and environmental implications of farm supplied alternative feedstock for Anaerobic Digestion (AD) at a regional level.
Teagasc economist Dr Fiona Thorne is the principal investigator on the FLEET project which is supported by the SEAI Research and Development fund.
This research will be the first of its kind in Ireland to evaluate the potential for Anaerobic Digestion (AD) to address economic and environmental outcomes at an individual farm level using Teagasc, National Farm Survey data.
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There may be no Government support for anaerobic digestion in Ireland but there’s no shortage of research projects underway
Teagasc has launched a new three-year project aiming to look at farm-supplied feedstock for anaerobic digestion (AD) plants.
The project, called FLEET, will identify farm-scale, landscape-level and national-level economic and environmental implications of farm supplied alternative feedstock for AD at a regional level.
The first online meeting of the FLEET technical working group was held this week.
Teagasc claims that this research will be the first of its kind in Ireland to evaluate the potential for AD to address economic and environmental outcomes at an individual farm level using Teagasc National Farm Survey data.
April 30, 2021 3:47 pm
A multi-disciplinary team at Teagasc has held the first online meeting of the technical working group for a new anaerobic digestion (AD) project.
The project, titled ‘FLEET’, is aimed at identifying farm scale, landscape level and national level economic and environmental implications of farm-supplied alternative feedstock for AD at a regional level.
Teagasc economist Dr. Fiona Thorne is the principal investigator on the FLEET project, which is supported by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) research and development fund.
This research will be the first of its kind in Ireland to evaluate the potential for AD to address economic and environmental outcomes at an individual farm level.
New Anaerobic Digestion (AD) project commences
A multi-disciplinary team at Teagasc held the first online meeting of the technical working group for a new Anaerobic Digestion (AD) project called FLEET. It will identify farm scale, landscape level and national level economic and environmental implications of farm supplied alternative feedstock for Anaerobic Digestion (AD) at a regional level. Teagasc economist Dr Fiona Thorne is the principal investigator on the FLEET project which is supported by the SEAI Research and Development fund.
New Anaerobic Digestion (AD) project commences
This research will be the first of its kind in Ireland to evaluate the potential for Anaerobic Digestion (AD) to address economic and environmental outcomes at an individual farm level using Teagasc, National Farm Survey data. The willingness to adopt land use change will provide useful policy insights and will be at the forefront of knowledge generation relevant to the energy sector.
Debt levels per cow in different countries
Teagasc research has shown that dairy farms have the highest level of debt across all Irish farming systems and the highest rate of debt.
Close to two-thirds of Irish dairy farms have debt, compared to just 37pc on average across all systems. Just one-third of tillage and cattle rearing farms have debt, with a quarter of sheep holdings carrying borrowings.
The actual level of debt is also highest on dairy units. While average borrowings on all dairy farms comes to around €75,000, the level of debt on drystock farms is under €10,000, and below €20,000 on tillage holdings.