Project: Climate Care Cattle Farming Systems

Acronym	CCCfarming (Reference Number: 39274)
Duration	01/01/2020 - 31/12/2022
Project Topic	Aim is to develop climate smart cattle farming systems reducing GHG and ammonia emissions while maintaining the social-economic outlook of the farm business. Key words are efficiency of production and care for climate. Central in the approach are innovative housing and manure handling systems in reducing emissions, like use of composted bedding material, separation of faeces and urine, artificial floor constructions, manure cleaning robots, cow toilet, virtual fencing and ICT data collection techniques, and precision crop fertilization. Promising feeding, breeding and grassland mitigation practices are examined to contribute to the integrated systems approach. Our study will deliver an assessment of the environmental performance of a network of study field farms in eight EU-countries on basis of NPC balance tools and simple emission measurement methods. Researcher–farmer interaction is meant to improve performance. Expertise groups in each country evaluate the outcomes.
Network	ERA-GAS
Call	2018 Joint Call

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	Wageningen University and Research	Coordinator	Netherlands
2	University of Florence	Partner	Italy
3	Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies	Partner	Latvia
4	Justus-Liebig-University Gießen	Partner	Germany
5	National Research Institute of Animal Production	Partner	Poland
6	Lithuanian University of Health Sciences	Partner	Lithuania
7	Scotland's Rural College	Partner	United Kingdom
8	INSTITUT DE L'ELEVAGE	Partner	France
9	French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment	Partner	France
10	French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment	Partner	France
11	French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment	Partner	France
12	University of Kentucky	Partner	United States
13	Federal University of Lavras	Partner	Brazil
14	Agricultural Research Organisation	Partner	Israel