Sustainable and Holistic Food Chains for Recycling Livestock Waste to Land

Funder: RELU

Cost: £430k

Duration: 2005-2008

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Project Details

Highlights of research to date

• Research to date has focussed on determining current management practices and farmer attitudes to and reasoning behind manure and livestock management in the Taw catchment.


• A core aspect of the research has been the development of the field and farm-scale indexing tool. The tool is based on the concept of critical source areas which combines the site factors considered important in influencing FIO transfers from land to water.

• We have assembled an 'electronic consortium' of experts to help derive weightings to the source, transfer and connectivity factors used within the indexing tool framework. Experts have contributed advice from : Lancaster University, Bangor University, EA, SEPA, SAC, IGER, USDA, Direct Laboratories, ADAS and Dalhousie University.


• The tool will initially be used on key FIO monitoring farms to index land vulnerability and risk of FIO transfers.