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Data to explore circular manureshed management in beef supply chains of the United States and western Canada

Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

Circular management of beef supply chains holds great promise for improving sustainability from grazing agroecosystem to dinner plate. In the United States and Canada, one approach to circularity entails transporting manure nutrients from cattle produced in feedlots back to the grazing agroecosystems where they originated to enrich haylands for further grazing cattle production. We provide data to assess this strategy centered around three grazing agroecosystems: Florida, New Mexico, and the provincial assemblage of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia. We describe four datasets that can be used to estimate the potential nutrient utilization of hay fed to grazing cattle in the three grazing agroecosystems and the magnitudes of feedlot manure nutrients available for transport back to them. We found that although biogeography and management differ among the three grazing agroecosystems, the hay allocated for grazing cattle represented approximately 65% of the total harvested hay produced per agroecosystem after accounting for harvest losses, and that on average all three areas exported about 450,000 cattle annually for feedlot, pasture, and slaughter to states across the US. Although we highlight only three grazingland settings, our approach relies on methods that could ultimately be scaled nationally and internationally, with applicability to other animal industries for which circular management is an aspiration for sustainability outcomes.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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Metadata Created Date June 29, 2024
Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
Data Update Frequency irregular

Metadata Source

Harvested from USDA JSON

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date June 29, 2024
Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
Publisher Agricultural Research Service
Maintainer
Identifier 10.6073/pasta/6025924b89e313f25bddf1912c8ab07d
Data Last Modified 2024-08-30
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
Bureau Code 005:18
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License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Temporal 2010-01-01/2019-12-31

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