About Marie Kirby

Marie Kirby is a Senior Lecturer in Animal Science at Harper Adams University. Her research focuses on using a range of technology approaches to utilise agricultural and municipal residues/by-products into further, value-added products. One area of research is the use of animal slurries, manures and anaerobic digestates to develop novel products for further use, whilst reducing the environmental impact of current practises. These projects use different technology approaches to remove and recovery phosphorous and/or nitrogen from chicken manure, dairy slurries and digestates to form more concentrated nutrient products for plant use.

At Fields Good, Marie will be participating in the panel discussion, “Slurry solutions that prevent nutrient loss to watercourses” and hosting a research project stand in the horticulture tent. The project stand will explain the revolutionary nutrient recovery technology currently being developed by Harper Adams University and elentecBio, funded via the DEFRA Nutrient Management Programme. This research project is trialling phosphorous and nitrogen recovery, with water separation from dairy slurry at commercial scale on the university’s 400-head dairy unit.