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Development of ReturN, a manure redistribution optimisation tool: Description and application context

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  • Gabbrielli, Mara
  • Pullens, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria
  • Botta, Marco
  • Hutchings, Nicholas John
  • Doltra, Jordi
  • Domingo-Olivé, Francesc
  • Acutis, Marco
  • Fiorini, Andrea
  • Pasta, Paola
  • Ragaglini, Giorgio
  • Perego, Alessia

Abstract

Collaborative agreements for manure management would enable intensive and specialized livestock farms to expand the agricultural area available for manure distribution by transporting manure to arable farms, thus increasing nitrogen and carbon recycling, reducing environmental pollution and decreasing farms' dependence on external inputs. The economic and environmental viability of such collaborative arrangements depends on the balance between the manure transport costs and emissions (and thus the distances between farms) and the saving in mineral fertiliser purchase costs and production emissions.

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  • Gabbrielli, Mara & Pullens, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria & Botta, Marco & Hutchings, Nicholas John & Doltra, Jordi & Domingo-Olivé, Francesc & Acutis, Marco & Fiorini, Andrea & Pasta, Paola & Ragaglini, G, 2025. "Development of ReturN, a manure redistribution optimisation tool: Description and application context," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 227(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:agisys:v:227:y:2025:i:c:s0308521x25000903
    DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2025.104350
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    1. Asai, Masayasu & Langer, Vibeke & Frederiksen, Pia & Jacobsen, Brian H., 2014. "Livestock farmer perceptions of successful collaborative arrangements for manure exchange: A study in Denmark," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 128(C), pages 55-65.
    2. Bart Van der Straeten & Jeroen Buysse & Stephan Nolte & Ludwig Lauwers & Dakerlia Claeys & Guido Van Huylenbroeck, 2010. "A multi-agent simulation model for spatial optimisation of manure allocation," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(8), pages 1011-1030.
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