‘An AD plant will transform your farm income, but building one takes a lot of time and money – we’ve spent six figures already’
This Meath man explains why farmers need to work together to build digestors – and says the government’s new biomethane plan is ‘five years too late’
Brugha Duffy at the Biomethane Conference at Croke Park
Farmers can make way more money out of an anaerobic digestor on their land than they can out of farming, according to Meath man Brugha Duffy — but the process of setting up a plant can be long, arduous and costly.
The Duleek-based beef farmer and mechanical engineer started the planning for a 40GWh anaerobic digester with his business partner in August 2022, and they have already spent “six figures”.
