The Wensleydale Milk Producer Group’s summer social, farm walk and barbecue was held at Low Gill farm, Aysgarth, the home of the Dinsdale family and their herd of 180 Holstein-Friesian cows and followers. The family, who have farmed at the 500-acre Low Gill for five generations, installed an anaerobic digester in November last year. The digester takes the slurry and breaks it down through bacterial action producing biogas, a mix of methane and carbon dioxide. Mr Sunak, the Richmond and Northallerton MP, said: “It was great to see a farm-scale anaerobic digestion system perform in a real-world dairy setting. “I would also thank the Dinsdale family for hosting us and showing us the digester,” he added.