Comparative environmental life cycle assessment of cattle production systems

The main project aims to compare aspects of the environmental performance of different cattle production systems, ranging from conventional part housed and large-scale, fully housed dairy and beef to all-forage based production and including sub-set of organic production. The core method of analysis will apply systems-based environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), using an enhanced version of the Defra-funded Cranfield model. The main environmental impacts will include greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, water qualit...