Determination of global warming potential of dairy cattle farms
by Atilgan Atilgan; Roman Rolbiecki; Hasan Ertop; Joanna Kocięcka; Ercüment Aksoy; Burak Saltuk
International Journal of Global Warming (IJGW), Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023

Abstract: Dairy cattle's breeding is carried out intensively in the Eastern Anatolia Region (Turkey) and is a source of methane emissions. This study calculated global warming potentials arising from enteric fermentation and manure management of existing dairy cattle farms in this region between 2016 and 2020 using the tier-1 method defined by the IPCC. As a result, it has been found that the global warming potential of this region is 20,287.68 × 10³ tons of CO₂ in total. The total CH₄ value in the research area was 966.08 × 10³ tons. Furthermore, it has been determined that 98.02% of these emissions are enteric CH₄, and 1.98% is CH₄ originating from fertiliser management. Therefore, it is seen that enteric CH₄ constitutes a large part of the total CH₄ emissions. For this reason, CH₄ emissions can be controlled by choosing silage feeds in feed selection and adding minerals and vitamins to silage feeds.

Online publication date: Mon, 09-Oct-2023

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