Aim
To ensure efficient management of livestock and poultry and their manures – this can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve farm profitability.
- Draw up and regularly review animal health plans for all your livestock
- Increase longevity of breeding stock; look for a high output per breeding unit
- Improve efficiency of feed conversion; achieve optimum daily liveweight gains
- Increase efficiency gains in livestock fertility
- Where possible cover and aerate slurry and manure while stored
- Consider on-farm anaerobic digestion of manures and slurries from all livestock
For example:
By making good quality silage and knowing feed value, Ross Paton at Torr Farm was able to reduce 1kg concentrates per dairy cow per day over the housed period. Over a typical winter this saved 32 tonnes of concentrates which would have cost the business £10,355 and reduced the farm carbon footprint.
