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Looking Towards a Greener Future: Renewable Energy on Farm - Electricity
Dr Natalie Meades: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Embracing renewable energy technologies on farm has the potential for farms to become more diversified, reduce environmental emissions and become more sustainable.
- The adoption of renewable energy technologies provides an opportunity for farms to...
Looking Towards a Greener Future: Renewable Energy on Farm – Heat
Dr Natalie Meades: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- The use of renewable heat energy on farm provides an alternative to fossil fuels, helping to reduce on farm emissions, carbon footprints improve sustainability.
- The use of renewable heat on farm provides the...
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ruminant farming Part 2: Nutritional strategies for reducing nitrogen excretion and manure management options
Dr Saba Amir: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Nitrogen utilization efficiency in ruminants is low
- Precision feeding, forage quality, feed processing, shift in nitrogen excretion from urine to faeces and reducing the amount of fermentable organic matter have the best prospects for...
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ruminant farming: Part 1 Nutritional strategies to reduce enteric methane emissions
Dr Saba Amir: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- In the UK, agriculture contributes a relatively low proportion (about 11% in 2020) to the country’s total greenhouse gas (GHS) emissions but given the global warming potential of these gases more needs to...
Circular systems in agriculture part 2: Energy and Agriculture
3 April 2023
Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Circularising energy on farms could reduce costs and greenhouse gasses and even generate revenue, or valuable by-products
- Technologies for producing energy for circular use on farms include those which...