yet the North-South gap in methane intensity remains wide. For dairy cows in South Asia, enteric emissions per pound of milk in 2015 were nearly four times as high as in North America and western ...

Although these cows live a mostly traditional life ... ways to stabilize the bromoform and generate a more constant methane reduction in the rumen. “We’re working on making sure that whatever ...

Then a worrying increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria shifted the focus in the 2000s to a wider variety of efficiency enhancing and methane-reduction ... can be fed to cows,” he says.

Richard Heath, chief executive officer of the Zero Net Emissions Agricultural Cooperative Research Centre housed in the University of Queensland, said the technologies that were delivering more ...

Methane is an immensely challenging problem for the Irish dairy and beef sectors, but science is providing the means – mainly through new feed additives and breeding techniques – to reduce associated ...

By Dawn Attride for Sentient. Broadcast version by Danielle Smith for Tennessee News Service reporting for the Sentient-Public News Service Collaboration Methane isn’t exactly the sexiest greenhouse ...

This is considered important since the International Agency of Energy and the US Department of Agriculture estimate that methane from cows' burps and farts has a great influence on climate change ...

A scientist guides a long tube into the mouth and down into the stomach of Thing One, a two-month-old calf that is part of a research project aiming to prevent cows from burping methane ...

Cows belch methane as they digest their fodder and, above a concentration of five per cent, methane becomes explosive. Apparently, nobody explained to the folks at the South Fork Dairy (near ...

“We’re feeding it to cows to reduce methane emissions, and we hope to see at least a 40% to 50% reduction in methane of dairy cows,” says Heins. Heins says the early results are promising.

University researchers are studying a peculiar source of energy on a dairy farm about an hour north of the Twin Cities. The energy is derived from methane gas produced by the manure of the 800-plus ...