Vogelsang Blog

Situation

For sausage casing manufacturers, Harder Brothers, producing 115,200,000 meters on average of casings from sheep intestines each year was leaving them with a lot of waste product to dispose of. 
 
Once the casings had been separated, the company was keen to make use of as much of the remaining product as possible. With the rise in use of anaerobic digesters in the UK, sending the separated mucosa from the intestines to a local AD plant seemed like the logical idea. 

To move the mucosa out of the casing factory, they needed a pump system that could transport the 25 cubic metres of waste each day into holding silos before it is pumped into tankers to be transported to a biogas plant.

Installing an AD plant in 2012 provided a new income stream for an arable farm that wanted to reduce risk through diversification. Today, it exports more than three quarters of the energy it produces, whilst powering the whole farm and benefitting from both the solid and liquid waste product.

About the plant

Established in 1940, farmers and contractors, Metcalfe Farms has developed a system that makes full use of the slurry generated by its 1300 head of Holstein milkers. With 3500 acres, an on-site, slurry fed, anaerobic digester, two Vogelsang separators and a fleet of 19 New Holland tractors, the farm is at the cutting edge of slurry management.

Fit for field use – Maintaining liquid manure spreading technology: Is your liquid manure spreading technology fit for field use?

To ensure that liquid manure spreading runs smoothly and efficiently, we recommend regularly checking the functional capability of the spreading systems. In addition to the booms themselves, important components such as the precision distributor should also be put to the test. This ensures that the liquid manure is spread evenly over all the discharge hoses of the respective spreading system – precise liquid manure spreading made easy. High distribution accuracy ensures uniform fertilisation and thus uniform plant growth.

Using the Vogelsang precision distributor ExaCut ECQ as an example, we will show you the most important maintenance steps. In our example, the ExaCut ECQ is installed in the Vogelsang dribble bar system SwingMax with a working width of 21 meters.

Adamson Contractors takes a less-is-more approach with its slurry application to offer farms a precision-led service that promotes slurry and digestate as an important fertiliser rather than a waste product.

With three Vredo self-propelled slurry applicators operating a combined 3,600 hours per year, A & R Cramphorn Ltd operator Craig Barnes explains why the business has invested in the flagship machines and what the benefits are to making the most of natural fertiliser.

Robert Payne invested in a Vogelsang dribble bar, five years ago, to better manage slurry application on his Nutrient Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) classified farm. The move has brought greater flexibility and control of forage management, but, in one of the driest years on record, he has struggled to utilise slurry and cut enough grass to feed his dairy herd.

When the on-farm AD plant was built at WH Corbett Farms in 2016, it was designed with a Vogelsang feed system.

The Brocklesby AD plant is fed with 92,000 tonnes food soup from the adjacent edible oil recovery plant, Brocklesby Oil, as well as blood and glycerol from nearby food manufacturers.