News and Events

Dr Natalie Meades: IBERS, Aberystwyth University. 

December 2023

 Image by Woods, et al. (2022).

Dr Natalie Meades: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

December 2023

• 
  Ammonia is a colourless gas with a distinctive odour that is classified as an air pollutant.
• Ammonia can have negative effects on human and livestock health following inhalation. Moreover, ammonia can react...

Defining Sustainability is a question all but rhetorical in nature. It pertains to an almost spiritual relationship between people, animals and the land, unique to each locality, born of the climate, the geography and the culture. Where local tradition and...

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...

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...

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...

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...