Life Cycle Assessment

Lifecycle assessment provides a quantitative evaluation of the impacts of producing a good or providing a service. These potential impacts range from greenhouse gas emissions to water consumption to the potential effects of chemical or particulate emissions on human health. At AgNext, our team is focused on evaluating animal agriculture, from a system perspective, to identify the management or technology alternatives that improve sustainability.
AgNext Life Cycle Assessment Publications:
“A comprehensive environmental assessment of beef production and consumption in the United States”
Ben Putman, Alan Rotz, Greg Thoma. ScienceDirect, March 2023
“Spatialized Life Cycle Assessment of Fluid Milk Production and Consumption in the United States”
Andrew D. Henderson, Anne Asselin-Balençon, Martin C. Heller, Jasmina Burek, Daesoo Kim, Lindsay Lessard, Manuele Margni, Rosie Saad, Marty D. Matlock, Greg Thoma, Ying Wang, and Olivier Jolliet. Sustainability, January 2023
Meet Our Life Cycle Assessment Team:

Greg Thoma, Ph.D.
Director of Agricultural Modeling and Life Cycle Assessment

John Sheehan, Ph.D.
Systems Modeling Research Scientist