From grass to glass: The future for dairy companies on the path to net zero
An article by Thijs Geijer. An increasing number of large dairy companies have plans to become net zero in the future. There is a gap, though, between those plans and the existing technologies that would allow such ambitions to be carried out successfully....
Livestock management and crop fertilizer application are the largest contributors to anthropogenic ammonia emission
A review by Jens Jakob Sigurdarson, Simon Svane & Henrik Karring. In agriculture, the formation of ammonia from urea occurs primarily in livestock buildings, manure slurry tanks, and when inorganic urea-based fertilizers are applied to fields. It has been...
Texas dairy explosion leaves at least 18,000 cattle dead, 1 person critically injured
Working in a dairy farm is a dangerous activity. Manure emits methane, a highly explosive gaz. When manure is stabilized and no methane is emitted, the safety level is higher. Approximately 18,000 cows were killed, and one person was critically injured, in an...
Animal agriculture is the second largest contributor to human-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Animal agriculture is the second largest contributor to human-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, after fossil fuels, and is a leading cause of deforestation, water and air pollution and biodiversity loss. Though much of the world is focused on transitioning...
Fertilizer Shortages will cause global famine by Peter Zeihan
Peter pontificates that a billion people will starve from the impact of Putin’s War. Conventional toxic fertilizers produced by petrochemicals could be replaced by sustainable seaplants farmed offshore to mitigate famine and malnutrition.
Scientists warn of ‘phosphogeddon’ as critical fertiliser shortages loom
Excessive use of phosphorus is depleting reserves vital to global food production, while also adding to the climate cris
Climate change, where are the proofs?
This is is a high-quality analysis - unfortunately only in french - of rigorous proofs (or lack of them) regarding climate change. But even if climate will not change, water and atmospheric pollution related to agricultural activities will bring a change for the...
News & Resources
Some of the latest news, as well as interesting facts, regarding dairy farms and manure management, and its impact on the environment.
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