Most dairy farm-produced nitrogen ends up elsewhere: research

Most of the nitrogen-based pollution emitted by Dutch dairy farms ends up in the higher layers of the atmosphere and will impact on other areas rather than the farm surroundings, according to researchers at the University of Amsterdam. The three-year project, carried out on behalf of the dairy industry research foundation Mesdag Zuivelfonds, confirmed earlier research that just 9% of the emitted nitrogen settles within a radius of 500 metres of the farm itself. “Nitrogen is also deposited outside 500 meter...