George Eustice learns about poultry litter burning

“A great success story of Britain and Ireland working together in Brussels,” is how Declan O’Connor, chief executive of biomass company bhsl, has described the legalisation allowing poultry litter burning on farms.

Meeting Defra farming minister George Eustice on the day the new regulations came into force (15 July), he said the time had come for farmers to stop thinking of chicken manure as waste and start thinking of it as fuel.

For the full story see the Farmers Weekly Article here.