Precision livestock farming
...ol and feeding. This is also increasing on dairy farms, and includes things like milking robots and manure robots. But sensors are also used, such as pedometers for draft detection. However, t...
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Water in agriculture
...ivestock farming, there are examples of businesses that want to purify the liquid fraction of manure to irrigate grassland.Which agricultural sectors consume the most water? Currently, greenhou...
Soil health
...ine of a healthy soil. This engine is kept running by adding stable organic matter such as farmyard manure and compost, but roots, root exudates, green cover crop residues and crop residues such as...
Soil improvement with organic fertilizers
...ied. Crop residues Organic residue streams are also created on farms. In addition to animal manure, there are crop residues, such as cleaning waste at vegetable growers and fodder residues ...
Methane emissions in livestock farming (enteric emissions)
...hose methane emissions come from enteric fermentation (70%). The remaining 30% are emissions from manure and manure storage. In addition to having a warming effect on our earth, methane emissions a...
Soil: carbon sequestration
...a crop residues left behind on the field or indirectly via external organic material such as animal manure, compost, wood chips, etc. Through soil life, this fresh organic material is converted par...
Algae: seaweed and microalgae
...erry growth and make the plants more resistant to disease.Microalgae could also be used in manure processing to reduce emissions from digestate and other end products.Finally, certa...
Nitrogen
...ors, but a large share in ammonia (NH3) emissions. The main sources of ammonia emissions are barns, manure storage, field application of manure, and manure processing. Ammonia is a major contributo...