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Mitigation of nitrogen losses during pig manure management: Impact of manure cleaning technique
Water-Energy NexusProper management of nitrogen-containing pig manure is crucial to realize its benefits of supporting plants-grow as fertilizer while minimizing its impact on the environment and climate change.
Jing Zhang +5 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2019 Recycling essential plant nutrients like nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) from organic waste such as human and animal excreta will be an essential part of sustainable food systems and a circular economy.
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 Addition of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) to liquid dairy manure (slurry) reduces methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and ammonia (NH3) emissions. There is interest in understanding how gaseous emissions respond to decreasing rates of acidification, to determine
Vera Sokolov +8 more
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Ammonia and greenhouse gas emissions from slatted dairy barn floors cleaned by robotic scrapers
Research in Agricultural Engineering, 2018 The design of animal housing and manure management systems are key factors in livestock farming. Frequent removal methods, in fact, allow for the reduction of gasses produced from fermentations of the organic matter contained in manure, that affect ...
Alessandro Chiumenti +4 more
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Italian Journal of Agronomy, 2011 This paper reports results from a field experiment established in 1995 and still on going. It is located in Lodi, in the irrigated lowlands of Lombardy, Northern Italy.
Cesare Tomasoni +2 more
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Manure waste management: Perceptions and practices of dairy farmers in Punjab, India
Open Veterinary JournalBackground: Manure waste disposal is an essential aspect of dairy farm biosecurity and significantly impacts farm productivity, animal health, public health, and environmental sustainability. Improper manure management can contribute to pathogen spread,
Nilam Wavhal +3 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020 Liquid manure storages are an important source of greenhouse gases (GHG) on dairy farms. Methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are the predominant GHGs, while ammonia (NH3) is an indirect source of N2O.
Vera Sokolov +8 more
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Ammonia emission factors from cattle production systems in Ireland – a review
Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food ResearchAmmonia (NH3) emissions from livestock production contribute to environmental pollution. To address this challenge, the European Union (EU) National Emission Reduction Commitments Directive 2016/2284 (NECD) sets NH3 reduction targets for EU member states.
M. Y. Owusu-Twum +6 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2013 Methane emissions from manure management represent an important mitigation opportunity, yet emission quantification methods remain crude and do not contain adequate detail to capture changes in agricultural practices that may influence emissions.
A C VanderZaag +4 more
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Sustainable manure management. [PDF]
, 2013 The sustainability of modern manure management is far from certain, with many demonstrating significant limitations from the stand point of efficient use of manure resources and protection of environmental quality and human health. As demonstrated through this review, for manure management to be sustainable, a broad array of issues must be considered ...
Leytem, A.B. +2 more
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