Source : Alan Hogarth  - Dairy UK

• Alan Hogarth, a Scottish farmer based near Saltcoats in Ayrshire, is a pioneer or anaerobic digestion in the UK.
• He runs a plant capable of turning the combined slurry of his 250-cow dairy herd into 85,000m³ of biogas each year.
• This is burnt to generate 170,000 kWh of ‘greener’ electricity and lots of heat – enough to power his farm, his home and a new milk processing and bottling operation.

Alan Hogarth, a Scottish farmer base4d near Saltcoats in Ayrshire, is a pioneer or anaerobic digestion in the UK.

He runs a plant capable of turning the combined slurry of his 250-cow dairy herd into 85,000m³ of biogas each year. This is burnt to generate 170,000 kWh of ‘greener’ electricity and lots of heat – enough to power his farm, his home and a new milk processing and bottling operation.

Alan’s cows produce some two million litres of raw milk each year, sold to the local dairy. But his new bottling plant has the capacity to pasteurise all that milk on-farm and seal it in glass bottles for delivery to local households and small shops.

He has bought a second hand electric milk float for the deliveries which will be charged up on electricity produced from biogas. And he hopes that by labelling the milk as sustainable, he will encourage local people to support hi pioneering initiative.