Growing opportunities
Future Biogas is one of the largest producers of biomethane in the UK, currently working with over 400 farmers to produce renewable gas.
Growing for Future Biogas gives farms the opportunity to diversify income, decarbonise farm inputs and build soil health by diversifying farm rotations and returning organic matter back to land. Key to this is the return of organic matter, key plant nutrients and an active soil biology back to the farm through applications of digestate, displacing synthetic fertilisers made with fossil fuels.
Our offer focuses on supporting farmers in the transition to more regenerative land practices, encouraging the custodianship of UK soils and environmental stewardship.
Regenerative farming
Building soil carbon
Soil provides one of the fundamental functions for life, supporting the basis and foundation of the food chain as well as providing invaluable ecosystem services.
Soils can hold significant quantities of carbon, both in the organic and inorganic horizons in the profile. Collectively, these are known as the soil carbon sink, i.e., the capacity of carbon that the soil can trap and store.
Understanding the amount of carbon being lost from soils, and how this can be reversed is vital in combating climate change. Organic carbon is largely lost from soils as CO2, one of the most significant greenhouse gases contributing to global warming.
Introducing AD and Sustainable Farming Practices into an arable production system provides multiple opportunities to help build soil organic carbon and restore the soil carbon sink potential over the lifetime of the AD plant.
Over the years, Future Biogas has built a trusted reputation amongst the farming community, and we strive to work in close partnership with all of our growers.
If you don’t know someone we farm with already, please don’t hesitate to ask for an introduction.
Find out more about our Farming Charter, and how Future Biogas is going further to promote regenerative farming.