TY - CONF
T1 - Life cycle assessment of different dairy farms considering building materials for barns, milking parlors and milking tanks
AU - Hijazi, Omar
AU - Haslbeck, Maria
AU - Maze, Mona
AU - Samer, Mohamed
AU - Treiber, Maximilian
AU - Bernhardt, Heinz
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© ASABE 2020 Annual International Meeting.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Global warming is affected by the agriculture sector and its different activities, and justifying the greenhouse gas reductions for the agricultural emissions would be a must. Animal husbandry and especially dairy farming are responsible for a substantial proportion of agricultural emissions and finding a solution for reducing the release of greenhouse gases in this production sector will be an efficient mitigation option. In this study it was investigated if greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farming differ from those of stables with different construction methods. A greenhouse gas balance was calculated to determine the CO2 equivalents per kg milk, where both barn and the entire dairy farming system were considered. A questionnaire was created to determine the farm-related data. The farm managers were asked about the number of entries and exits of cows, calves and young cattle, the feeding of the animals, the mechanization and specific data about the buildings. The collected data from the different farms were the basis of accounting the GHG emissions from the used dairy farms. This information helped to create a greenhouse gas balance by using the software GaBi 6. Data which could not be obtained from the survey were taken from the software database. The emissions from animal husbandry, feeding, stable building, milking technology & milk storage and energy inputs of dairy farming were investigated. Emissions from meat production had been deducted in from of a credit to calculate the kg CO2 equivalents per kg milk. The results showed that the dominant emissions from the dairy system were caused by the livestock farming and feeding processes. The materials used in building construction were responsible for a very small part of around one percent of total emissions per kg milk. Consequently, the first approach was to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from feeding and livestock farming, where they had the greatest potential for reducing the release of emissions. Looking at the different dairy cow sheds, the differences in emissions could be observed. Both the useful life of the buildings and the utilized materials for barn/stable constructions had an influence on the originated building-related emissions, which differed according to the various used materials types and quantities.
AB - Global warming is affected by the agriculture sector and its different activities, and justifying the greenhouse gas reductions for the agricultural emissions would be a must. Animal husbandry and especially dairy farming are responsible for a substantial proportion of agricultural emissions and finding a solution for reducing the release of greenhouse gases in this production sector will be an efficient mitigation option. In this study it was investigated if greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farming differ from those of stables with different construction methods. A greenhouse gas balance was calculated to determine the CO2 equivalents per kg milk, where both barn and the entire dairy farming system were considered. A questionnaire was created to determine the farm-related data. The farm managers were asked about the number of entries and exits of cows, calves and young cattle, the feeding of the animals, the mechanization and specific data about the buildings. The collected data from the different farms were the basis of accounting the GHG emissions from the used dairy farms. This information helped to create a greenhouse gas balance by using the software GaBi 6. Data which could not be obtained from the survey were taken from the software database. The emissions from animal husbandry, feeding, stable building, milking technology & milk storage and energy inputs of dairy farming were investigated. Emissions from meat production had been deducted in from of a credit to calculate the kg CO2 equivalents per kg milk. The results showed that the dominant emissions from the dairy system were caused by the livestock farming and feeding processes. The materials used in building construction were responsible for a very small part of around one percent of total emissions per kg milk. Consequently, the first approach was to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from feeding and livestock farming, where they had the greatest potential for reducing the release of emissions. Looking at the different dairy cow sheds, the differences in emissions could be observed. Both the useful life of the buildings and the utilized materials for barn/stable constructions had an influence on the originated building-related emissions, which differed according to the various used materials types and quantities.
KW - Dairy cowsheds
KW - Greenhouse gas emission balance
KW - Life cycle assessment
KW - Milking parlors
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U2 - 10.13031/aim.202000516
DO - 10.13031/aim.202000516
M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:85096554318
T2 - 2020 ASABE Annual International Meeting
Y2 - 13 July 2020 through 15 July 2020
ER -