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Ammonia losses from field-applied animal manures

Obiettivo

Volatilization of ammonia is a major route for the loss of plant-available nitrogen from animal manures, representing a financial loss to European farmers of about ECU 650 million/year. These losses also cause environmental problems animal production systems are the main source of atmospheric ammonia in Europe. Concern at the impact of ammonia deposition on sensitive ecosystems forms the background to ongoing international negotiations to reduce national ammonia emissions. Ammonia losses vary greatly with application technique and weather and are one reason why farmers cannot effectively predict the fertilizer value of the animal manure nitrogen. This leads to a tendency to apply a surplus of nitrogen to the crop, contributing to nitrate and nitrous oxide pollution. European agriculture of the future must be competitive within the world market place, whilst protecting natural resources.

To achieve this objective, manure management strategies and technologies are required that enable environmental targets to be met, whilst minimising the associated costs. Appropriate strategies and technologies will vary across Europe, as climate and production systems vary. Currently, national guidelines for best agricultural practice are often based on relatively few field scale studies of ammonia volatilization. The value of national research programmes would be greatly increased if their data were related to results from elsewhere in Europe. New studies would have added value if there was international co-ordination of experimental structure and standardisation of techniques. Bringing together experts on NH3 emissions would enable cost-effective reduction methods to be identified, improve the efficiency of manure N use in agriculture and help reduce overall losses of N from field-applied animal manures(slurries, farmyard manure and compost).

The main objectives are:
1. To improve the flow of information and co-ordination between groups of European researchers working on ammonia loss from field-applied animal manures.
2. To quantify the relationships between management practices, climate and ammonia emissions from field-applied animal manures.
3. To describe techniques to predict and reduce ammonia losses and their costs and benefits.
4. To improve the dissemination of this knowledge to scientists, advisors and policymakers.

A database of European research activity related to ammonia losses from anim manures will be constructed. The concerted action will collate data on ammonia losses from animal manures and details of techniques available to predict and reduce those losses. This information will be stored in a second database. Both databases will be searchable via the World Wide Web and submission of information from researchers outside the concerted action will be encouraged. This will improve the co-ordination of activities and the dissemination of results across Europe. Experimental structures and techniques will be co-ordinated, adding value to results from national experiments. Discussions between partners, based around the development of a conceptual model and an analysis of the collated data, will enable the important mechanisms to be quantified and the gaps in knowledge to be detected. The conceptual model will also be used to structure the presentation of results to policymakers and advisors and will be used to describe the main features of future decision support systems. This will improve the transfer of information about the optimisation of manure utilization to the farmer.

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DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
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