Landcorp - Research and Development

...Devoting available resources for research and development to those areas which give the greatest economic advantage and which are not generally being investigated elsewhere in the agricultural community eg biogencool methane digester... Read More...

Finding Power in Effluent

By TIM CRONSHAW - The Press | Friday, 29 August 2008

A dairying system that is turning effluent into power and fertiliser in Canterbury is expected to revolutionise the way farmers treat cow muck.

Its investors have set up a pilot plant at a Landcorp Farming dairy farm in Eyrewell that is extracting methane and carbon dioxide from effluent with biodigester technology, and using it as fuel in a co-generation plant to make electricity. Read More...