Nocton Dairies has submitted a planning application for what it says will be “the UK’s largest dairy farm”, capable of producing up to 250,000l of milk per day. (foodmanufacture.co.uk)
Nocton Dairies is owned by a group of farmers. They want to build a multi-million pound dairy located on Nocton and Dunston Heath, south of Lincoln. The dairy will initially employ between 80 and 100 staff.
Plans also include building a visitors centre, training facilities, and an anaerobic digester that will produce 2MW of power from the farm waste – enough to power the dairy and over 2,000 homes.
Robert Howard, who farms in Nocton and is involved with the proposed dairy, said: “The British dairy industry has suffered from under-investment in recent years, hopefully this will go some way towards reversing that trend.”
Nocton Dairies hopes that the planning permission will be approved in the first week of April so that it can open the dairy in late September.
