Recycling nutrients in the beef supply chain through circular manuresheds: Data to assess tradeoffs.
Journal
Journal of environmental quality
ISSN: 1537-2537
Titre abrégé: J Environ Qual
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0330666
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jul 2022
Jul 2022
Historique:
received:
18
11
2021
accepted:
13
04
2022
pubmed:
15
5
2022
medline:
30
7
2022
entrez:
14
5
2022
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ppublish
Résumé
Nutrient circularity can help supply chain participants meet sustainability targets. Across the segmented beef supply chain, opportunity exists to reinforce and introduce nutrient circularity by recycling surplus manure nutrients from cattle feedlots to lands where cattle feed is produced. We describe four datasets developed to evaluate options in U.S. and Canadian beef systems. The datasets delineate three "circular manuresheds," each encompassing a hay-grazing landscape where beef cattle are raised on grazingland and supplemented with hay grown nearby, and the distant feedlots where those cattle produce manure nutrients for potential import back to the hayfields. We selected the hay-grazing landscapes of New Mexico, USA; Florida, USA; and western Canada (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia) because of their significant grazingland production and potential to substitute feedlot manure for commercial fertilizer on hayfields. In each circular manureshed, the manure nutrients from major feedlot destinations could supply a considerable proportion of the P used by hay for grazing cattle: 34% of the P requirements in New Mexico, 36% in Florida, and 6% in western Canada. The average distance to return the resource was 647 km for New Mexico, 1,884 km for Florida, and 1,587 km for western Canada. These magnitudes and distances suggest that the New Mexico circular manureshed may be the most economically viable in the current agri-food system, but this reflects only part of a greater, multi-factor assessment of tradeoffs. The circular manureshed concept provides a platform for simultaneous consideration of competing factors for sustainability via circularity. Nutrient circularity can help animal supply chain participants meet sustainability goals. The manureshed concept can help willing consortia operationalize nutrient circularity. Data delineate three circular manuresheds where feedlot manure is recycled onto hayfields in landscapes where feedlot cattle originated. Available nutrients and transport distances for the three circular manuresheds are calculated. These findings can inform a comprehensive assessment of tradeoffs of circular manureshed management.
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Nutrient circularity can help animal supply chain participants meet sustainability goals. The manureshed concept can help willing consortia operationalize nutrient circularity. Data delineate three circular manuresheds where feedlot manure is recycled onto hayfields in landscapes where feedlot cattle originated. Available nutrients and transport distances for the three circular manuresheds are calculated. These findings can inform a comprehensive assessment of tradeoffs of circular manureshed management.
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© 2022 Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada. Journal of Environmental Quality published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America. Reproduced with the permission of the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. This article has been contributed to by U.S. Government employees and their work is in the public domain in the USA.
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