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Calculates the contribution of an individual feed component to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from on-field agricultural activities in feed production (e.g., energy use for tillage and machinery operations), using feed-specific emission factors weighted by the component's share in the ration.

Usage

calc_co2_ration_crop_activities(feed_ration_fraction, co2_feed_crop_activities)

Arguments

feed_ration_fraction

Numeric. Proportion of a specific feed component in the total ration, expressed as its fraction of diet dry matter intake (fraction). Within each herd_id and cohort, proportions should sum to 1.

co2_feed_crop_activities

Numeric. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission factor of a feed component, representing CO2 emissions from on-field agricultural activities in feed production, expressed per kilogram of dry matter intake (kg CO2/kg DM).

Value

Numeric. Contribution of an individual feed component to the diet-level average carbon dioxide (CO2) emission factor from on-field agricultural activities in feed production (g CO2/kg DM).

Details

The contribution is computed as:

$$diet\_co2\_feed\_crop\_operations = feed\_ration\_fraction \times co2\_feed\_crop\_operations$$

This function is part of the run_emissions_ration_module().