Minutes of CCCfarming Teams meeting

Minutes TEAMS meeting CCCfarming 21st of December 2022

1. Minutes of TEAMS meeting on 24th of October 2022 were approved with one remark. Diana Ruska asks to add to the overview of deliveries, that the breeding trials in Latvia and the Netherlands besides in Germany were cancelled, because the Covid epidemic did not allow the German researchers to visit those countries during the measurement period (WP2.3). This will be explained in the next report to the ERANET-SUSAN Joint secretariat.
   
2. Physical CCCfarming consortium meeting in Florence, Italy, will take place on 22-25th of May. The Italian partner presented the first outline of the program.
   
3. For the 2nd year, a Climate Care Cattle session will be organized. This time at Lyon, France, from 28-31 August 2023. We like to hear suggestions for input from your side, like in Porto meeting; abstract submission until 1st of March 2023. Summary of CCCfarming seminar from Porto last September will be forwarded.
   
4. Diana Ruska distributed by mail of 17th of September the forms needed for filling in the mitigation practices, economic consequences and the resulting farm plan per individual farm. This will be one of the main deliveries of this project. See an example of farm plan as Appendix (only partly filled in). The forms were explained. Calculations will be done with both the ANCA and the AgreCalc tool. The request is to try to hand in the forms in the month of December.
   
5. Paul Galama discussed strategic model calculations with farm model Dairy Wise as part of WP3.3. Two or three representative farms will be composed (intensive versus extensive, production level 7000 versus 9000, etc.) On these model farms, several mitigation strategies will be simulated.
   
6. Adam Cieslak explains about the results of the completed feed additives experiment by PULS (WP2.2.1).
   
7. Paul Galama tells about the emission measurements with both the simplified method and the regular method at Dairy Campus, the Netherlands (WP2.1.1.). It relates to a limited number of measurements, which makes comparison of the two methods difficult.
   
8. Capturing ammonia and methane from air or manure and accumulation of gasses. Some equipment in development and partly already in the field was illustrated. Higher concentrations of methane make it easier to capture or oxidize it. However, accumulated gasses have risk of poisoning and explosion; some data from the experimental barn of INRAE Rennes were shown.