Greenhouse gas emissions from dairy manure management: a reivew of field-based studies

Authors:

Justin Owen, Whendee Silver

Tags:

dairy, emissions, emissions modeling, greenhouse gas, IPCC, livestock, manure, Review

Journal:

Global Change Biology

Year Published:

2014

Policy Summary

This paper examines existing data on livestock manure management and its contributions to US and global methane emissions. Results found that GHG is generally underestimated, and that there could be promise in targetting liquid manure systems to reduce and mitigate GHGs.

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