Title: Determination of global warming potential of dairy cattle farms

Authors: Atilgan Atilgan; Roman Rolbiecki; Hasan Ertop; Joanna Kocięcka; Ercüment Aksoy; Burak Saltuk

Addresses: Department of Biosystem Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, 07450 Alanya-Antalya, Turkey ' Department of Plant Irrigation and Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture and Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz, 85-029 Bydgoszcz, Poland ' Faculty of Agriculture, Isparta University of Applied Science, 32200 Isparta, Turkey ' Department of Land Improvement, Environment Development and Spatial Management, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Poznan University of Life Sciences, 60-649 Poznań, Poland ' Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Vocational School of Technical Sciences, Akdeniz University, 07058 Antalya, Turkey ' Department of Biosystem Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, 07450 Alanya-Antalya, Turkey

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.

Keywords: dairy cattle; carbon dioxide; global warming; methane.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGW.2023.133982

International Journal of Global Warming, 2023 Vol.31 No.2, pp.178 - 193

Received: 15 Aug 2022
Received in revised form: 15 Mar 2023
Accepted: 16 Mar 2023
Published online: 09 Oct 2023 *

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