2012 saw the first cows on the farm for the past 25 years.
The herd began with only a few Hereford-Friesian cows and has grown into the 20 pedigree Aberdeen Angus’s seen today. They graze on the steeper fields to the southwest of the farm which are otherwise unsuitable for cropping. Round bale silage for the herd is made in the summer when the Biogas Plant is consuming grassland more slowly than it is being produced.
When inside for the winter months, they enjoy warm bedding of dried digestate from the biogas plant and when turned out in the spring, their muck is put back into the Biogas Plant to repeat this zero-waste cycle. The resulting bullocks from the herd are sold to a local butcher, where the community benefits from the sustainably sourced meat.