Climate Care Cattle Farming Systems

Development of climate smart care cattle farming systems reducing GHG and ammonia emissions.

Minutes of CCCfarming Teams meeting

Minutes of CCCfarming Teams meeting 24th of October 2022

Minutes of CCCfarming Teams meeting 24th of October 2022

Present: Valentina Becciolini; Matteo Barbari; Diana Ruska; Kaspars Naglis-Liepa; Gitana Kadziene; Paul Hargreaves; Adam Cieslak; Malgorzata Szumacher; Lena Fehmer; Nadege Edouard; Chris Flechard, Katja Klumpp; Violeta Juskiene; Paul Galama, Abele Kuipers
  • 1. Minutes of the July consortium physical meeting in Rennes, France, were approved.
  • 2. Work-Package3: Mitigation practices, economics, preparing of a farm plan Outcome of preparations of this topic by the Latvian, Scottish and Netherlands team were presented. The Latvian team will send a list of mitigation practices and techniques, both on base of the ANCA tool (2 farms per country) and AgreCalc tool (all other farms), to the consortium partners. Each partner is requested to present the list to the farmers, who can make their choices. The MACC calculation procedure (economic calculations) is part of the package (prepared by the Latvian team). All info will finally be summarized in a Farm plan for each pilot farm. A concept outlay of such a farm plan was shown (prepared by the Netherlands team).
  • 3. The progress with deliveries of all work-package tasks were explained by the various task leaders, and the explanations (the status) are listed in a separate document.
  • 4. Progress with completion of report about Kitchen table interviews stagnates, because of lack of input from researcher of SRUC.
  • 5. State of art of progress with website was discussed.
  • 6. Summary of 11/2 Day EAAP seminar Climate Care dairy farming was distributed. Text still to be improved.
  • 7. Possible place to have a physical consortium meeting next year is Florence, Italy.
Abele Kuipers 15 December 2022