Expert Panel on Agriculture and Nature

Expert Panel Contacts

Nick Hutchings (co-chair with focus on GHG and ammonia emissions)

Department of Agroecology, University of Aarhus

PO Box 50, Research Centre Foulum

8830 Tjele

Denmark

Tel: +45 21622721

Email: nick.hutchings@agro.au.dk

Barbara Amon (co-chair with focus on GHG and ammonia emissions from animal husbandry)

Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering

Department of Technology Assessment and Substance Cycles

Max-Eyth-Allee 100

D-14469 Potsdam, Germany

Tel: +49 151 65117059

Email: bamon@atb-potsdam.de

Bernard Hyde

Environmental Protection Agency, Regional Inspectorate

The Glen, Monaghan Town, Co Monaghan,

Ireland

Tel: +353 47 77657

Email: b.hyde@epa.ie

Expert Panel Documents

Guidance on urease inhibitors - Download

At the 2024 TFEIP meeting, the Agriculture and Nature EP expressed concern in relation to the criteria specified in the EU Fertiliser Regulation before a substance could be marketed as a urease inhibitor (UI). The criteria were considered wholly inadequate as a basis for inclusion of their effects in national emission inventories and the co-chairs were asked to produce a document that provided guidance on the matter. It has transpired that there are similar and more widespread concerns about nitrification inhibitors (NIs) and not just in relation to the EU Fertiliser Regulation. The Agriculture and Nature EP have produced some temporary guidance on this issue, whilst further guidance is being developed by TFRN.

Workplan

The current workplan is:

Complete new methodologies for fertiliser NH3 emission
Discuss crop NH3 emission, NMVOC emissions, soil NOx emissions with the modelling community
Complete guidance on reporting emissions from anaerobic digestion
Continue and intensify the collaboration with TFRN (EPMAN/EPNB)
Assess need for methodologies for marine NH3 emissions and indirect NO emissions
Liaise with IPCC revision of agricultural sector

Webinar on Ammonia emissions from crop residues, 5 Dec 2023

A methodology for calculating the ammonia emissions from crop residues was presented at the 2023 annual meeting of TFEIP in Oxford. We were asked to hold a webinar to go through the new methodology with inventory compilers. This webinar took place on 5 December, 2023, from 15.00 to 16.00 CET. The presentation is available here and the associated Excel spreadsheet is here.

Webinar on Ammonia emissions from crop residues, 5 Dec 2023

2023 Meeting held in Oxford, 18 April 2023

Introduction, agenda and etiquette (Nick Hutchings)

Ammonia emissions from non-agricultural animals (Nick Hutchings/J Webb)

Updating Chapter 3D (ammonia emissions from crop residues) (Nick Hutchings/J Webb)

Updating Chapter 3D (ammonia emissions from synthetic fertilisers) (Nick Hutchings)

Update of chapter 3B (manure management) (J Webb)

Tier 3 ammonia emissions from field-applied slurry - update on the AMALFI project (Sasha Hafner)

Agricultural NMVOC emissions (Katrin Kaltenegger)

Report on TFRN and working groups (Barbara Amon)

Updates on the Agricultural Emission Estimation (AgrEE) Tool (Manjola Banja)

More regionalisation in methodologies? (Nick Hutchings)

Ammonia emission estimates from manure management in Northern Italy at different resolution: farms, municipality and national level. (Alessandro Marongiu)

Feedback on use of software (Nick Hutchings)

Issues connected to GB methods (confusion, access to activity data) (Nick Hutchings)

Workplan and wrap up (Barbara and Nick)

2022 Meeting held virtually, 11 May 2022

Introduction, agenda and etiquette (Nick)

Results of the ad hoc group on categorizing livestock (Nick) (members; Rikke Albrektsen, Roland Fuß, Dirk Wever, Andreas Pacholski, Mette Hjorth Mikkelsen)

Proposal for updating the method for ammonia emission from synthetic fertilizers (Andreas Pacholski)

Tier 3 ammonia emissions from field-applied slurry - the ALFAMI project (Sasha Hafner)

Ammonia emissions from crop residues (Nick)

Improving estimates of methane emission from manure management (M4Models) (Søren O Petersen)

Update on progress in EU projects and Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen (Barbara)

Update on the Excel ammonia and nitric oxide emission tool (Richard German)

Updates on the Agricultural Emission Estimation (AgrEE) Tool (Manjola Banja)

Discussion of software tools (Nick) (Results of online survey)

Workplan (Barbara)

Wrap up (Nick)

Online workshop, 16 Nov 2021

A workshop on ammonia abatement measures and how to reflect their effects in national emission inventories was organised by the EU TAIEX-EIR Peer 2 Peer and the Danish Ministry of Environment. The presentations made at this workshop are available HERE.

2021 Meeting held virtually, 4 May 2021

Agenda with presentations

The agenda for the May meeting was as follows:

Introduction, agenda and etiquette (Nick)
Gothenburg Protocol review - agriculture (Barbara)
Report on ammonia emissions (Barbara)
Reporting import/export of manure (suggested text for Guidebook) (Nick)
Experience with the N flow tool (Harald Menzi, FOEN)
The usefulness of background information and IIRs (Rasmus Einarsson, Chalmers)
EU training session 2020 and 2022 (Nick)
Insights on the Agricultural Emission Estimation (AgrEE) prototype tool (Manjola Banja, JRC)
Guidebook methodology developments (Nick)
Collaboration with TFRN, GRA, MELS (Barbara)
Non-agricultural livestock (Nick)
Workplan and wrap up (Nick)

2020 Meeting held virtually, 11-14 May 2020

Co-chair presentation (Nick and Barbara)
Improving national emission inventories for the agricultural sector in Europe (Monica Crippa et al, JRC)
EEA's Nitrogen Flow Tool (Rosie Brooke and Richard German - Aether)

2019 Meeting held in Thessaloniki, Greece 13-14 May 2019

Agenda with presentations

Introduction

Part 1 Guidebook Update

Emission factors for manure management (3B & 3D)
Linking manure management (3B), soil emissions (3D) and anaerobic digestion (5B2)
Excel spreadsheet to support manure management