The authors re-evaluated the data used to calculate IPCC 2006 CH4 emission factors resulting from enteric fermentation in dairy cows and other cattle, and
manure management from dairy cows, other cattle and swine.
Not exact matches
Digging deeper: Methane
from microbial fermentation represents 30 % and
manure management 26 % of total methane emissions in the Golden State, according to 2016 board data.
This encompasses an 8.4 % increase in CH4
from enteric fermentation (digestion) in dairy cows and other cattle and a 36.7 % increase in
manure management CH4 compared to IPCC - based estimates.
Revised
manure management CH4 emissions estimates for 2011 in the US
from this study were 71.8 % higher than IPPC - based estimates.
Although it is true that some initiatives
from the past were unsuccessful or were better suited to another era (consider that few, if any, U.S. cities still field complaints about basement piggeries or accumulations of horse
manure in the streets), we have much to learn
from our forebears and
from the progression of thinking about waste
management over time.
In a collaboration with ranchers and local and state land
management organizations called the Marin Carbon Project, she and her students are testing the effects of compost created
from city yard waste (such as leaves, branches, and lawn trimmings) and agricultural waste (including
manure and cornstalks) on carbon storage.
The cow
manure from grass - fed cows becomes a natural fertilizer, not a major waste
management problem like in factory feedlots.
One of the aspects of the Savory grazing method, as I understand it
from discussions with range
management scientists, is intense grazing of individual pastures with the associated trampling of
manure, vegetation and whatever else.
The increase also comes
from more extensive
manure management on farmland.
Other benefits include reduced erosion, improved biodiversity, and decreased air and water pollution
from inefficient
manure management.
The high quality, serialized credits are
from a wide range of voluntary and California - regulated carbon market projects, including: reforestation, forest
management, avoided conversion of forests, destruction of ozone depleting substances, mine methane capture, advanced refrigeration systems, transportation fleet efficiency, livestock
manure management, avoided conversion of grasslands, rice cultivation, advanced formulation foam blowing agents, landfill gas capture, industrial processes and renewable energy.