Reducing emissions from cattle farming

How to reduce cattle livestock emissions in a cost effective way for farmers? 

The final report of this Focus Group has been published. Get all the information at a glance in the Livestock emissions factsheet.

Tasks:

• Make an inventory of competitive farm management practices and strategies related to housing and feeding which are currently available, to tackle emissions from cattle at farm level in the EU. Which working examples can be found in the EU?
• Compare these different management practices and strategies, which reduce emissions from cattle, taking into account the cost-effectiveness, production efficiency and emission reduction efficiency. How can emission measuring methods contribute to this?
• Explore cross-fertilisation from livestock other than cattle, which could be beneficial for the reduction of emissions in cattle production systems.
• Identify success factors and fail factors that stimulate or limit the use of the identified management practices and strategies by farmers, and summarise how to address these factors and explore the role of innovation and knowledge transfer in addressing these fail factors.
• Identify needs from practice and possible gaps in knowledge on particular issues concerning emissions from cattle which may be solved by further research.
• Propose potential innovative actions to stimulate the knowledge and use of management practices and strategies in reducing emissions from cattle and to multiply positive effects within the agricultural sector.

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Resources from the Focus Group members:

Dutch factsheet on EIP-AGRI Focus Group "Reducing emissions from cattle farming" – Dutch Network Support Unit