Slurry tourism
Slurry tourism is a political catchphrase that describes the transport of slurry over long distances to areas with little livestock farming or biogas plants.
In Germany there is no officially managed database on the scope and the transport routes covered. The BUND is based on a "nutrient report," the Ministry of Agriculture in Lower Saxony that are submitted manure, chicken manure and fermentation residues from biogas plants with an annual volume of 34 million tons to other companies. The BUND estimates that around a tenth of this is transported nationally. As a result, around 75,000 transports with three million tons of manure rolled down the streets of Lower Saxony every year.
There is also slurry tourism between the Netherlands and North Rhine-Westphalia and in the state of Bavaria.
Web links
- Transporting liquid manure and grain by combi-liner , from agricultural today, an example of a company that transports its liquid manure.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, So ein Mist , June 11, 2017
- ↑ Hannoverische Allgemeine, 75,000 manure trucks drive through the country , October 4, 2016
- ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk, Stricter Fertilizer Rules: Slurry Tourism Across Bavaria , June 19, 2019