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| Butler, Allan J.; Oliver, David; Chadwick, Dave; Fish, Rob; Winter, Michael; Hodgson, Chris; Heathwaite, Louise. |
| Conventional livestock farming provides consumers with cheap and reliable sources of milk and meat. Yet the inevitable by-product, i.e. livestock faecal matter, represents a potential source of pathogenic microorganisms. This paper applies the Faecal Indicator Organisms Costing Assessment Tool (FIOCAT), which was designed as part of the RELU project ‘sustainable and holistic food chains for recycling livestock waste to land’, to examine the costs associated with mitigation methods that may inhibit pathogenic transfers to water. FIO-CAT is comprised of three interrelated models: the economic dairy management (EDM) model, the farm business survey (FBS) model and the manure, infrastructure and environment (MIE) model. Specifically, it models dairy, and cattle... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Cost mitigation; Cost tool; Microbial organisms; Whole farm modelling; Diffuse pollution; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50939 |
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