Our Research and Reports
Integrity Ag & Environment is a leading provider of sustainable agriculture services and environmental management to Australia and the world. Our dedicated team of researchers and engineers investigate and develop methods and technology to help producers and industry bodies to implement more environmentally friendly farming processes. Browse the publications below to learn more about our work in agri-environmental sustainability research, life-cycle assessment, carbon neutrality, greenhouse gas accounting and more.
Our Published Work
- Reducing environmental impacts from garments through best practice garment use and care, using the example of a Merino wool sweater.
- Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership.
- Environmental impacts associated with the production, use, and end-of-life of a woollen garment.
- Clothing lifespans: What should be measured and how.
- Review of Methodological Choices in LCA-Based Textile and Apparel Rating Tools: Key Issues and Recommendations Relating to Assessment of Fabrics Made from Natural Fibre Types.
- Resource use and GHG emissions from three wool production regions in Australia.
- Resource use and environmental impacts from Australian export lamb production: LCA.
- Resource use and environmental impacts from beef production in eastern Australia investigated using LCA.
- Resource use and GHG emission from grain finishing beef cattle in seven Australian Feedlots.
- Resource use and environmental impacts from Australian chicken meat production.
- Environmental impacts and resource use from Australian pork production assessed using LCA: 1. GHG emissions. & 2. Water, energy and land footprints.
- Resource use and GHG intensity of Australian beef production:1981 – 2010.
- Application of LCA to sheep production systems: Investigating co-production of wool and meat using case studies from major global producers.
- Environmental impacts and resource use of Australian beef and lamb exported to the USA determined using LCA.
- An LCA approach to quantifying GHG emissions from land-use change for beef production in eastern Australia.
- Quantifying carbon sequestration on sheep grazing land in Australia for LCA studies.
- Livestock meat processing: inventory data and methods for handling co-production for major livestock species and meat products.
- Impacts of land-use change on the assessment of water use in grazing systems and interactions with carbon sequestration.
- Assessing agricultural soil acidification and nutrient management in LCA.
- Red meat production in Australia: LCA and comparison with overseas studies.
- Review of water assessment methodologies and application to Australian agriculture
- LCA of Australian egg production, in Proceedings of the LCA Food 2010 VII conference, Italy
- LCA of two Australian pork supply chains.
- Accounting for water use in Australian red meat production.
- Environmental impacts of the Australian poultry industry: 1. Chicken meat production.
- Environmental impacts of the Australian poultry industry: 2. Egg production.
- Establishing soil nutrient distribution zones across free-range egg farms to guide practical nutrient management strategies.
- Reducing environmental impacts from garments through best practice garment use and care, using the example of a Merino wool sweater.
- Potential contaminants and hazards in alternative chicken bedding materials and proposed guidance levels.
- Analysis of resource use and GHG emissions from four Australian meat production systems, with an investigation of mitigation opportunities and trade-offs.
- Nitrous oxide, Ammonia and Methane from Australian Meat Chicken Houses measured under commercial operating conditions and with mitigation strategies applied.
- Methane, nitrous oxide and ammonia emissions from a conventional Australian piggery with short and long hydraulic retention time effluent storage.
- Emissions of nitrous oxide, ammonia and methane from Australian layer hen manure storage with a mitigation strategy applied.
- Methane, nitrous oxide and ammonia emissions from pigs housed on litter and from stockpiling of spent litter.
- Soil nitrate and phosphorus accumulates rapidly with a non-uniform distribution in two outdoor pig areas.
- Field measurement of beef pen manure methane and nitrous oxide reveals a surprise for inventory calculations.
- Water use by livestock: A global perspective for a regional issue.
- Ruminant enteric methane mitigation: a review.
- An investigation of lot-fed cattle drinking water consumption under Australian conditions.
- Water usage of individual activities within Australian cattle feedlots, in Agriculture Technologies in a Changing Climate.
- Energy usage of individual activities within Australian cattle feedlots, in Agriculture Technologies in a Changing Climate.
- Trends in the environmental impacts from the Australian pork industry: 1980-2020.
- Nutritional comparison of chicken and plant protein