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France: "Hay as a sales crop"

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France
Published Aug 29, 2021

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Since the start of barn drying in 2016, the cultivation and food approaches at EARL Dolo have undergone profound changes and the sale of high-quality hay has developed. An original system was to be discovered on Friday, September 3. In 2016, EARL Dolo in Magoar (22) inaugurated its barn drying system in parallel with the start-up of its methanization unit. "At the time, to obtain the heated premium to finance part of the energy project, we had to use the heat accompanying the production of electricity by cogeneration," explains Pierre-Louis Dolo, one of the three partners. “Initially, we thought about growing spirulina. But many seemed to be heading in that direction and it made little sense in relation to our primary vocation as breeding. On the contrary, the idea of drying the grass in bulk accompanied by a multi-product flat drying part opened up prospects ... "15 ha of grass in 2015, 115 ha in 2021.

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Since the start of barn drying in 2016, the cultivation and food approaches at EARL Dolo have undergone profound changes and the sale of high quality hay has developed. An original system to be discovered on Friday September 3. In 2016, EARL Dolo in Magoar (22) inaugurated its barn drying system in parallel with the start-up of its methanization unit. "At the time, to obtain the heat premium to finance part of the energy project, we had to use the heat accompanying the production of electricity by cogeneration," explains Pierre-Louis Dolo, one of the three partners. “Initially, we thought about growing spirulina. But many seemed to be heading in that direction and it made little sense in relation to our primary vocation as breeding. On the contrary, the idea of drying the grass in bulk accompanied by a multi-product flat-drying part opened up prospects ... " 15 ha of grass in 2015, 115 ha in 2021 This commissioning of the dryer and the concomitant signing of a Maec SPE 28 contract ...
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