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Publication Date
2005
Location
Dublin Ireland
Description
Countries which sign up to the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions are required to return annual inventories of greenhouse gas emissions, including methane emissions from farm livestock. Countries with large agricultural emissions are encouraged to derive specific emission factors (annual production of methane per animal in a specified animal class) for their livestock populations, rather than relying on default emission factors provided by IPCC (1996). In this paper, we describe how an emission rate of methane from enteric fermentation for spring-calving dairy cows in Irish production systems has been derived.
Citation
O'Mara, Frank and Lovett, D. K., "Methane Emissions of Dairy Cows in Irish Spring-Calving, Grass Based Production Systems" (2005). IGC Proceedings (1985-2023). 11.
(URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/20/themeB/11)
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Methane Emissions of Dairy Cows in Irish Spring-Calving, Grass Based Production Systems
Dublin Ireland
Countries which sign up to the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions are required to return annual inventories of greenhouse gas emissions, including methane emissions from farm livestock. Countries with large agricultural emissions are encouraged to derive specific emission factors (annual production of methane per animal in a specified animal class) for their livestock populations, rather than relying on default emission factors provided by IPCC (1996). In this paper, we describe how an emission rate of methane from enteric fermentation for spring-calving dairy cows in Irish production systems has been derived.
