iCLEANED technical specifications

The iCLEANED Technical Specifications is a comprehensive methodological guide that documents the calculations, equations, parameters, and assumptions underpinning the iCLEANED livestock environmental assessment tool. It explains how farm-level information on herd structure, feed resources, land, crop production, manure management, fertilizer use, and livestock outputs is converted into estimates of feed demand and diet quality, productivity, land and water requirements, nitrogen balance, soil erosion, greenhouse gas emissions, and soil organic carbon. By clearly presenting the model’s computational procedures, the resource supports transparent, consistent, and reproducible assessment of the productivity and environmental performance of livestock production systems and serves as a reference for researchers, practitioners, and developers applying or improving iCLEANED.