For farmers, slurry can be both a blessing and a curse: in the right place at the right time, it’s a valuable source of fertilizing nutrients;\u00a0in the wrong place at the wrong time, it’s a\u00a0dangerous and heavily-regulated potential pollutant.<\/p>\n
A number of decision support tools–such as RB209<\/a>, Crap App<\/a> and Planet<\/a>–have been produced with the aim of helping farmers ensure their slurry and manure is a blessing, rather than a curse.<\/p>\n But how useful are these tools to farmers in the field? How can they be made better?<\/p>\n SLURRY-MAX is an interdisciplinary project led by Claire Waterton <\/a>at Lancaster Unversity. Claire, alongside her colleagues Lisa Norton <\/a>(Lancaster), Katrina Macintosh <\/a>(Queen’s Belfast), Ruben Sakrabani <\/a>(Cranfield), James Gibbons<\/a> and Dave Chadwick <\/a>(Bangor),\u00a0Shailesh Shrestha <\/a>(SRUC) and Emma Cardwell <\/a>(Lancaster), working alongside ADAS<\/a> and AHDB<\/a>,\u00a0will investigate what decision support tools actually do for farmers, and how they can be made to do more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For farmers, slurry can be both a blessing and a curse: in the right place at the right time, it’s a valuable source of fertilizing nutrients;\u00a0in the wrong place at the wrong time, it’s a\u00a0dangerous and heavily-regulated potential pollutant. A number of decision support tools–such as RB209, Crap App and Planet–have been produced with the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":515,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/slurry-max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/slurry-max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/slurry-max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/slurry-max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/slurry-max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/slurry-max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/slurry-max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/slurry-max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}