Farm & Regional Scale Integration Network

Flagship project: Next steps

12th October, 4:30 – 6:00 pm (CETS)

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Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Pilot project (October 2021 – April 2022)
1. Results from FRS survey
2. Project stocktake
3. Survey and review paper (October 2021 – April 2022)
4. Economic analysis and agri benchmark training (Winter 2021/22)
5. Flagship project criteria
6. Others
7. Wrap up

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FRS: Flagship Project „GHG mitigation in cattle farming - how much is
possible where and what are the economic implications on-farm?”

• Aim: identify the most cost-effective managerial and technological GHG

mitigation options at farm-level per region
• Species: cattle (cow-calf and beef finishing), possibly sheep, if critical mass
• Countries: South America, Asia, Africa + North America and Europe as a low
emission benchmark
• Production systems: grazing, silage and grainfed
• Strategies compared with Baseline: locally adapted mitigation practices (best
management)
• Outputs: Performance, Economics, GHG emissions, other indicators like
adoption barriers, financial needs, side effects

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 Survey results
Bangladesh Bangladesh UK Ireland Argentina
Sample size 202 farms 1 commercial / All farms Not yet
research farm applied
Level of Analysis Farm County Farm Country Farm
Methodology Gate-to-gate Secondary Cost-Benefit Cost-Abatement IPCC -
data Analysis Curves Inventory
approach
Production System Beef Goat, Beef, Beef Sheep, Beef, Dairy Beef
Dairy cattle Cattle,
Horticulture
Integrated Crop- No Yes Yes N/A No
Livestock and whole
farming system
GHG and ammonia CH4, N2O CH4 CH4, N2O, CO2, CH4, N2O, CO2, CH4, N2O,
emissions; soil NH3 NH3 CO2
carbon sink Soil Carbon Soil Carbon Soil Carbon

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 Bangladesh Bangladesh UK Ireland
Enteric methane Tier 2 Tier 1/2 Tier 2 Tier 2
CH4 from pasture deposited wastes Tier 2 Tier 1/2
Survey results
CH4 from stored manures Tier 2 Tier 2
CH4 uptake by soils Roth C Tier 1
N2O from mineral fertilisers Tier 2 Tier 2
N2O from N-fixing crops Own model
N2O from manures deposited on pasture Tier 2 Tier 2 Tier 2
N2O from stored manures Tier 1
N2O from stored wastes deposited on pastures Tier 2 Tier 2 Tier 1
N2O uptake by soils Own model Tier 1
NH3 from livestock manure Tier 2
Generic soil carbon Roth C Tier 1
Soil carbon in agroforestry systems Tier 1
Soil carbon in arable crops Roth C Tier 1
Soil carbon in extensive grasslands Tier 1
Soil carbon in intensive grasslands Own model Tier 1
CO2 from fossil fuels / production of fertilisers Tier 2

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 Survey results cont‘d

Bangladesh Bangladesh UK Ireland

GHG calculator Cool Farm Tool, AgRE Calc and own
model
Economic No No Looked at difference in emissions Marginal
assessment between animals with different RFI abatement cost
and overall economic performance curve
of individual animals and
rearing/finishing systems
Co-benefits No No No Co-benefits were
noted in a
qualitative way

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Economic analysis

1. Idea: use existing agri benchmark infrastructure, methods and tools

2. Precondition: comparability / harmonization of GHG calcs is required

3. Consequence: obtain overview of GHG mitigation studies (partially completed)

4. Proposal: link with the survey performed by Daniel Bretscher from Agroscope

5. Implementation options:
a. link existing agri benchmark data sets with existing emission data
b. create completely new data sets using the existing GHG case studies
and insert data in agri benchmark or other tools

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agri benchmark Trainings

1. agri benchmark runs a training on result data bases and GHG emission tool on

Thursday 18th November, most likely 13:00 CEST

FRS members and other interested people are welcome to join

2. An additional training on the methods (standard operating procedure) and the

data collection in our questionnaire will be offered on request.

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