Sustainability Assessment of U.S. Beef Production Systems
Start date: December 15, 2015
End date: April 30, 2017
Objective: To couple farm gate environmental footprints of beef production systems in the U.S. with post-farm processing and distribution to provide an update to the full life cycle assessment of beef production and consumption in the United States. Specific plans for this period are to:
- Adapt the existing LCA to the Simapro computational platform to enable comparison of future performance against the 2013 baseline.
- Collaborate with the USDA ARS to create links between the Integrated Farm System Model and Simapro.
A second phase that extends our assessment to include economic and social evaluation of U.S. beef production is scheduled to be completed in Fall 2018.
