Gestione zootecnica e miglioramento quanti-qualitativo dei reflui di origine animale: possibili interventi alla luce dei vincoli imposti dalla recente normativa

Improving livestock and manure management on intensive farms is essential to sustainability, so as excreta quantity-qualitative characteristics. Considerable progress in this context has been obtained in the last decade. However, newly introduced legislative requirements are now demanding greater changes for larger cattle, pig and poultry farms. Achieving of a better balance between nutrient supplies and animal requirements is now fundamental, as probably the future regulations will refer to a wastes quality improvement, also for reducing the farm costs. Instead, reductions in waste production could help farms requiring larger land spreading areas.