The Carbon Footprint of Energy Consumption in Pastoral and Barn Dairy Farming Systems: A Case Study from Canterbury, New Zealand

Dairy farming is constantly evolving to more intensive systems of management, which involve more consumption of energy inputs. The consumption of these energy inputs in dairy farming contributes to climate change both with on-farm emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels, and by off-farm emissi...

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Main Authors: Hafiz Muhammad Abrar Ilyas, Majeed Safa, Alison Bailey, Sara Rauf, Marvin Pangborn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-09-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/17/4809