Agri-footprint 7 now available for openLCA

by | Jan 26, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

The new Agri-footprint 7 database by Mérieux NutriSciences | Blonk is now available for openLCA users. In this blog post we’ve provided a summary of the key changes in this new update, from data to licences. We welcome you to give it a read, or directly go to Nexus to acquire the new update of Agri-footprint.

What is new

Below you can find a summary of what is new in Agri-footprint 7. For a more detailed read, refer to the reports under the Documents tab in the Agri-footprint Nexus page: https://nexus.openlca.org/database/Agri-footprint

  1. Update on activity data for cultivation.
  2. Update on data for market mixes.
  3. Update of Ecoinvent background data to version 3.10.
  4. Update in methodology:
    • Crop System Efficiency Index (CSEI) is applied to the cultivation modelling, replacing the double cropping methodology that was applied in earlier versions.
  5. Extra products:
    • Crude oil market mix for Indonesia, India and Philippines.
    • Groundnut shells and groundnut, shelled for China.
    • Market mixes for peanuts for 15 countries.
    • Post-harvest and market mix for seed cotton in the United States of America.
  6. Some products are renamed:
    • Products from rice cultivation renamed from “at farm” to “at paddy”.
    • Crude peanut oil to Crude groundnut oil, to align with products name of the crop and other co-products.
    • Cream, from skimmed milk to Cream (skimmed).
    • Maize germ meal expeller (pressing) to Maize germ expeller.
    • Maize germ meal extracted (solvent) to Maize germ meal (solvent).
    • Sunflower seed expelled dehulled (pressing) to Sunflower seed expeller (pressing).
    • Ethanol from sugarcane renamed to ethanol from molasses.
  7. Bug fixes:
    • Pesticide data: correction in insecticide and fungicide emissions.
    • Peat emissions: correction in methane emissions for grass cultivations.
    • Energy content roughages: energy content of grass, fodder beet, lucerne at cultivation stage corrected.
    • Crop residues emissions for the following crops improved: sugar beet (based on IPCC: Potatoes and tubers), sugar cane (Perennial grasses), peas green (Beans and pulses) and beans, green (Beans and pulses).
    • Price for linseed expeller corrected.
    • Yield values corrected for Maize forage/US, from 8174 to 45477.8 kg/ha.
    • The energy input for roughages updated.
    • Comments on “broiler fattening, at farm” and “one-day-chicken” are now correct.
    • For “broiler fattening, at farm/JP” the inputs origin is corrected.
    • Grass silage intake for beef system corrected, from 122137 to 260928 kg intake.
    • Emissions and energy inputs for animal systems are now regionalized correctly.

Database licence

Please note that the database providers Mérieux NutriSciences | Blonk have updated the licence types and End User Agreements for the new release. There are Commercial and Academic licences as before, and additionally a Commercial licence for up to 10 users. As official resellers of the database, we have applied this to Nexus: https://nexus.openlca.org/database/Agri-footprint

If you are interesed in a Developer licence, e.g. for tools that use the database, contact our team.

If you already have an Agri-footprint licence lower than version 7.0, get in contact with us at nexus@greendelta.com with your current licence and we will let you know if you are eligible for a discount.

Support

If you require a training or support with the openLCA software, you can book it here: https://nexus.openlca.org/services

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