UCC team finds way to turn slurry into cash cow for farmers

Farmyard slurry has been transformed from a waste product needing storage into a way for farmers to grow animal feed thanks to pioneering research being carried out by UCC scientists.

Under the EU-funded Brainwaves Project, which started officially in January, researchers have devised a method of turning farmyard slurry into a way of growing nutritious, cheap animal feed — or, as Professor Marcel Jansen, of the UCC School of Biological Earth Environmental Sciences puts it, a method of generating revenue from waste as part of the circular economy.