09/09/2026
On-farm grass biorefinery opens in Cork to test commercial potential
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Caroline Randall
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Ireland’s first on-farm demonstration-scale biorefinery integrating grass biorefining and anaerobic digestion was inaugurated in Cork, Ireland, today. Funded by Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the €3 million facility will serve as the Irish demonstration site for Rural BioReFarmeries, which receives approximately €7.35 million in CBE JU funding.
Coordinated by Munster Technological University (MTU), Rural BioReFarmeries brings together 19 partners from eight countries to test a farmer-centred, small-scale biorefinery model under real farming conditions and assess its potential for replication across Europe’s grassland regions.
