USDA Beef Lifecycle Assessment Finds Environmental Impacts Lower Than Perceived

January 21, 2019 The Beef Checkoff

A new study, recently published in the journal Agricultural Systems, is the most comprehensive beef cattle lifecycle assessment ever completed. In the report, titled Environmental Footprints of Beef Cattle Production in the United States,1 the researchers found widely accepted measures related to beef cattle’s impact in the U.S. are often overestimated.