The aim of the study was to analyze environmental impact of cow milk production in an alpine area through a cradle-to-farm-gate Life Cycle Assessment and to identify farming strategies that can improve environmental sustainability without negatively affecting profitability. Data were collected from ...
Organic agriculture addresses the public demand to diminish environmental pollution of agricultural production. Until now, however, only few studies tried to determine the integrated environmental impact of conventional versus organic production using life cycle assessment (LCA). The aim of this article wa...
This research could be applied in regional studies on environmental impact of Italian dairy productiondoi:10.18047/poljo.21.1.sup.24Alessandro Dalla RivaJasmina BurekDaesoo KimGreg ThomaMassimo De MarchiPoljoprivredaDalla Riva A, Burek J, Kim D, Thoma G, Cassandro M, De Marchi M. 2015. The ...
Anaerobic digestion is an effective method to decrease the environmental impact of milk production and to generate renewable energy. A dairy farm with an annexed biogas plant produces three outputs, milk, meat and electricity, and should be considered as a single system for the evaluation of the ...
The environmental results showed two critical contributing factors: the production of the livestock feed (e.g., alfalfa) and the on-farm emissions from farming activities, with contributions higher than 50% in most impact categories. A comparison with other LCA studies was carried out, which ...
In addition to the historical success, there are a number of frontier technologies poised to provide the next steps in leveraging genetics to enhance environmental impact of dairy production. View chapterExplore book Milk: Milk of Monotremes and Marsupials Julie A. Sharp, ... Kevin R. Nicholas...
environmental parametergenotype x environment interactionrandom regression modelThe objective of this study was to estimate effects of environmental sensitivity of milk production traits for several environmental parameters and to investigate the impact of combining traits with different environmental sensitivity ...
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Conventional and Organic Milk Production Following the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, this study aims to assess and compare the environmental impact of milk production of some conventional and organic farms located in the Molise region (Italy). The considered...
Concerning other environmental impacts, e.g. global warming, acidification and eutrophication, it appears that measures to reduce the potential impact from milk production need to be implemented in both systems analysed. It is also evident that when comparing the...
Two scenarios were modelled: constant milk production at the farm level and decreasing beef production (as co-product; Scenario 1); and both milk and beef production kept constant by compensating the decline in beef production with beef from suckler cow production (Scenario 2). Model calculations...