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Manure production, nitrogen and phosphate in manure, nitrogen losses Manure processing, manure exports and manure use

In 2022, total nitrogen excretion from animal manure amounted to 467 million kg, phosphate excretion amounted to 150 million kg.

In 2019, nitrogen excretion in animal manure decreased by 2.6 percent on the previous year, to 490 million kg. This is below the nitrogen oxides emission ceiling that has been imposed on Dutch...

Phosphate production in livestock manure declined further in 2018

Economic growth is often realised to the detriment of the environment.

In 2007, 95 percent of dairy and pig farms in the Netherlands had provisions to store semi-liquid manure for six months or longer.