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Estimates of manure volumes by livestock type and land use for England and Wales

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

Estimates of annual volumes of manure produced by six broad farm livestock types for England and Wales at 10 km resolution, modelled with MANURES-GIS [1]. The farm livestock classes are: dairy cattle; beef cattle; pigs; sheep and other livestock; laying hens; broilers and other poultry. The quantities produced by each type are subsequently apportioned into managed and field-deposited manure. The managed manure sources are categorised as beef farmyard manure, beef slurry, dairy farmyard manure, dairy slurry, broiler litter, layer manure, pig farmyard manure, pig slurry and sheep farmyard manure. The destinations are recorded as grass, winter arable, spring arable and direct excreta when grazing. For each 10 km square, the quantity of manure going from each source to each destination is estimated. The values specify amount of excreta, in kilograms for solid manure and in litres for liquid manure. [1] ADAS (2008) The National Inventory and Map of Livestock Manure Loadings to Agricultural Land: MANURES-GIS. Final Report for Defra Project WQ0103 Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/517717f7-d044-42cf-a332-a257e0e80b5c

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
24 July 2026
Harvest GUID
517717f7-d044-42cf-a332-a257e0e80b5c
Extent (Latitude)
55.812° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-6.452° to 1.768°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2016-03-17
Dataset reference date (creation)
2013-05-17
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Nicholson, F., Chambers, B., Lord, E., Bessey, R., Misselbrook, T. (2016). Estimates of manure volumes by livestock type and land use for England and Wales. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/517717f7-d044-42cf-a332-a257e0e80b5c
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher); NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre (custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng