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PigGas - Pork Industry Greenhouse Gas Calculator and Case Studies

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Author(s): Ian Kruger

“PigGas” is a graphical spreadsheet model which allows producers to understand and quantify their piggery’s emissions and drivers using site specific factors (diets, sale weights, transport distances, waste treatment systems etc). This project tested the PigGas model on six farms which found a large variation in on-farm emissions (0.99 to 6.39 kg CO2-e / kg HSCW) depending on infrastructure, production and management.

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