Search

Home > Farming Today > Farming Today This Week: Energy
Podcast: Farming Today
Episode:

Farming Today This Week: Energy
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:24:37
Publish Date: 2019-11-30 01:02:00
Description: Charlotte Smith visits a farm in Wiltshire, to find out about using farmland to produce energy. East Farm at Codford near Warminster has an anaerobic digester, a biomass boiler, and several acres of solar panels. Charlotte hears how 100,000 tonnes a year of food waste can be turned into electricity, with fertiliser produced as a by-product. We also hear about the controversy surrounding the decision by some farmers to burn straw as an energy source. Producer: Emma Campbell
Total Play: 0

Users also like

300+ Episodes
In Our Time: .. 400+     40+
300+ Episodes
Best of Natu .. 200+     10+

Some more Podcasts by BBC

10+ Episodes
The Human Zo .. 200+     10+
20+ Episodes
Science Stor .. 100+     10+
200+ Episodes
Your Place A .. 10+     1
6 Episodes
Codes that C .. 10+    
30+ Episodes
Frontiers 10+     3
300+ Episodes
The Life Sci .. 200+     20+
800+ Episodes
Scotland Out .. 100+     10+
7 Episodes
Seven Ages o .. 2     1