Milk’s carbon footprint could be reduced by up to 50 percent Potential reduction of the usage of fossil fuels as well as methane emissions (PRESS RELEASE) HELSINKI, 3-May-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Food producer Valio and energy company Gasum have just … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Finland, Food & Beverage, News, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged atmospheric carbon dioxide, biogas, biogas from manure, biogas plant, carbon footprint, clean water, climate challenge, cow manure, dairy farms, energy from farm manure, farm manure, fertiliser, fossil fuels, Gasum, greenhouse emissions, Juha Nousiainen, liquid manure, Matti Oksanen, methane emissions, milk, milk’s carbon footprint, nitrogen, Nivala, Ostrobothnia, phosphorus, recycled fertiliser, renewable fuels, Valio
HELSINKI, 01-Oct-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The record warm summer sparked a discussion about climate change and the future of food production in Finland and Europe. The environmental impacts of meat and milk production are at the core of the discussion because … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Environment, Finland, Food & Beverage, Management
Tagged carbon-neutral milk chain, Climate, dairy, eutrophication, farmers, fertilizers, methan, methane, milk, nitrogen, phosphorus, ruminants, Valio
29-7-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — A major new technology has been developed by The University of Nottingham, which enables all of the world’s crops to take nitrogen from the air rather than expensive and environmentally damaging fertilisers. Nitrogen fixation, the process by which … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Chemicals, Education, Science, United Kingdom
Tagged ammonia, beans, breakthrough technology, crops, environmentally damaging fertilisers, fertilisers, legumes, lentils, nitrogen, Nitrogen fixation, nitrogen from the air, peas, plants, Professor Edward Cocking, synthetic nitrogen fertiliser, University of Nottingham, world’s crops