Why use DIGEST-IT?

DIGEST-IT:

increases nutrient recovery, improving the fertiliser value of slurry,
reduces ammonia emissions and odours,
breaks down solids, reducing the time required to agitate and pump slurry,
grows more, better quality grass, by improving soil health.

Slurry is a valuable fertiliser resource, making better use of slurry is a crucial initiative in our drive towards carbon neutral farming. To make better use of slurry and to limit its environmental losses we need to compost it.

Composting is a microbial process that converts dead vegetative matter into a living organic plant food that improves soil health. Dung composts naturally over time when exposed to air. The lack of oxygen in slurry tanks makes this process more challenging.

DIGEST-IT provides composting microbes that can operate without oxygen and the nutrients needed to maximise their actions.

Improve Microbial Activity and earthworm count with DIGEST-IT

At Dowth, in 2014 soil microbial activity was measured in grass plots that received no slurry, untreated slurry and DIGEST-IT treated slurry.

The treated slurry showed a 42% improvement in soil microbial activity compared with no slurry and a 36% improvement against untreated slurry.

In 2022 plots, from the Rossin field comparative trial, a 36% higher worm count was found on the DIGEST-IT treatment compared to untreated slurry.

Reduced Slurry Ammonia with DIGEST-IT

Devenish in conjunction with Wageningen University conducted trials in 2021 on DIGEST-IT.

The trials show a continued and sustained reduction in the concentration of ammonia gas from slurry when treated with Digest It.

DIGEST-IT– 80% Ammonia reduction from slurry

Increase slurry nutrient content with DIGEST-IT

Over a 4-month period in Dowth, County Meath DIGEST-IT increased total slurry N by 30%. If you’re applying 3000 gals of slurry per acre this is equivalent to and extra 1/3 of a bag of CAN.