Resource use and environmental impacts from beef production in eastern Australia investigated using life cycle assessment
Stephen Wiedemann A B , Eugene McGahan A , Caoilinn Murphy A and Mingjia Yan A
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A FSA Consulting, Toowoomba, Qld 4350, Australia.
B Corresponding author. Email: stephen.wiedemann@fsaconsulting.net
Animal Production Science 56(5) 882-894 https://doi.org/10.1071/AN14687
Submitted: 11 July 2014 Accepted: 29 October 2014 Published: 18 March 2015
Abstract
Resource use and environmental impacts are important factors relating to the sustainability of beef production in Australia. This study used life cycle assessment to investigate impacts from grass-finished beef production in eastern Australia to the farm gate, reporting impacts per kilogram of liveweight (LW) produced. Mean fossil fuel energy demand was found to vary from 5.6 to 8.4 MJ/kg LW, mean estimated fresh water consumption from 117.9 to 332.4 L/kg LW and crop land occupation from 0.3 to 6.4 m2/kg LW. Mean greenhouse gas emissions ranged from 10.6 to 12.4 kg CO2-e/kg LW (excluding land use and direct land-use change emissions) and were not significantly different (P > 0.05) for export or domestic market classes. Enteric methane was the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, and multiple linear regression analysis revealed that weaning rate and average daily gain explained 80% of the variability in supply chain greenhouse gas emissions. Fresh water consumption was found to vary significantly among individual farms depending on climate, farm water supply efficiency and the use of irrigation. The impact of water use was measured using the stress-weighted water use indicator, and ranged from 8.4 to 104.2 L H2O-e/kg LW. The stress-weighted water use was influenced more by regional water stress than the volume of fresh water consumption. Land occupation was assessed with disaggregation of crop land, arable pasture land and non-arable land, which revealed that the majority of beef production utilised non-arable land that is unsuitable for most alternative food production systems.
Additional keywords: carbon, cattle, footprint, land, LCA, water.
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