The intensive livestock industry is a multi trillion dollar worldwide and with growing demand for protein is projected for continued growth. Although farm gate prices vary regularly from highs to lows, margins are under sustained pressure from competition, fuel prices, fertiliser costs and feed costs, making farm efficiency critical to ongoing viability.  

Farmers are on the frontline of the impacts of drought and are increasingly subject to the vagaries of governments as they move to reduce global carbon emissions.  Farmers are also exposed to community pressures to manage odours and to regulatory standards for the management of water quality, nutrient loads and waste handling, storage and transport.  

Well engineered biogas technology can provide a solution for farmers striving to manage these challenges.

Spectrum provides innovative, affordable and practical solutions to generate benefits from farm waste streams.

Farmers with smaller waste streams (less than 2tonne per day) can have the option to purchase or rent our BioBowser®, packaged biogas plant.

BioBowser®biogas plants can help you to:

• Reduce odours associated with intensive animal production effluent wastes

• Reduce the size and maintenance of traditional pond based effluent management

• Improve the quality of effluent in reuse systems and extend the life of associated infrastructure

• Improve on farm water efficiency

• Reduce off farm waste transport, handling and disposal costs e.g. disposal of onsite abattoir effluent

• Provide opportunities for the replacement of traditional fertilisers with product produced on farm

• Provide opportunities for direct use of biogas for heating or cooling

• Create new farm revenue streams.