Nine West Cork Dairy Farms Cut Slurry Methane 72% in One Winter; 18 More Join

Climate KIC, Europe's climate innovation agency, coordinated a pilot on nine dairy farms in West Cork with Carbery's monitor-farm network and a Galway technology supplier. Monitored slurry stores showed an average 72% methane reduction over the 2025/2026 winter housing period, a cumulative cut of 218 tonnes of CO2e by the end of May 2026. Testing led to a revised manual-dosing version that lowered installation costs and simplified daily use. It is now being rolled out to 18 more farms in West Cork during 2026. Figures come from the project's own reporting as relayed by Agriland, and the underlying report was not independently reviewed.