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Quantification of greenhouse gas emissions from a beef feedlot system in south-east Australia during summer conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2017

M Bai
Affiliation:
University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
S Muir
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
D Rowell
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Hill*
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
D Chen
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
T Naylor
Affiliation:
University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
F Phillips
Affiliation:
University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
T Denmead
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
D Griffiths
Affiliation:
University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
R Edis
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Feedlot management systems for beef cattle are becoming a more common practice in Australia reflecting opportunities to ensure quality of product whilst maintaining cost efficiencies within production. However, feedlot systems have been identified as point sources of greenhouse gases emissions (GGE: methane, nitrous oxide and the indirect greenhouse gas ammonia). It has been estimated that feedlot systems contribute 3.5% of total direct methane emissions (Alford et al. 2006), and 30% of total emissions from livestock wastes. Furthermore, approximately 1% of total N2O emissions from agriculture are attributed to livestock. This paper reports methane, N2O and NH3 emissions from an Australian feedlot system managed under summer climatic conditions. It compares actual measured emissions with estimated from three recognised models used by national governments to estimate total GGE per annum from livestock agriculture.

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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2009

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