Noise from Livestock Husbandry – Introducing a new Basis for Assessment
Regular paper
AREC Raumberg-Gumpenstein
Monday 1 june, 2015, 17:20 - 17:40
0.8 Rome (118)
Abstract:
In the last few years farms and in particular livestock husbandry have been
noticed increasingly as potential sources of noise pollution. To support noise
experts in this special field the Agricultural Research and Education Centre
Raumberg-Gumpenstein (AREC) in Austria developed and published an agricultural
sound assessment guide. The Practice Guide of Acoustical Engineering in
Agriculture focuses on the provision of emission data for planning phases of new
farm buildings connected with livestock husbandry and on their assessment. The
most important sources of noise, agricultural traffic, rural technical equipment
and vocalisation of animals are included in the manual.
Especially noise emissions from livestock had to be considered. On the one hand
animals are sources of emissions which follow biological rhythms and on the other
hand the motivation to produce sound is strongly influenced by external factors,
e.g. by the management. The knowledge about these facts is at least necessary to
assess animal sound emissions.
The Practice Guide was developed from 2009 - 2013 in cooperation with the Forum
Schall and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment
and Water Management. It is provided free of charge via the homepage of the
Austrian Federal Environment Agency.
http://www.umweltbundesamt.at/fileadmin/site/publikationen/REP0409.pdf