Feed additives have a role to play in busting methane emissions (CH4) but current FDA policy is preventing US farmers from gaining access to such tools, says a leading expert.
Professor Matt Bell, director of agriculture at Hartpury University, one of the UK's leading specialist education providers in agriculture, has created a ‘breeding index’ to select dairy cows based on traits key to enhancing the sustainability of...
MicroHarvest has been selected as a winner in the 2023 BloombergNEF (BNEF) Pioneers awards, which recognize early-stage companies working to introduce technologies and products that can push the world to a net-zero global economy.
A team at Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences has been awarded funds for research aimed at reducing methane emissions from cows and sheep, using plant and fungal sources.
UK company, Volac, has launched a new feed additives division as it looks to help the international feed industry advance efficiency and meet the Net Zero challenge.
UK feed industry representatives, the Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC), acknowledged the progress made in the new UK environmental improvement plan but says more detail is needed.
Australian climate technology company, Rumin8, has closed Phase 2 of its seed funding round, led by Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV).
The dairy industry is facing new challenges from increasing demand for sustainable milk production and new government laws and policies targeting emissions reduction.
Environmental advocacy group, Mighty Earth, is calling for a full investigation into ‘green bonds’ issued by meat giant, JBS. It has lodged a complaint with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against the Brazilian company.
The French dairy giant has become the world’s first food company to make a methane-specific climate pledge - but questions remain around how this ambition could be realized.
Feedworks USA reports positive date from large-scale, split-herd trials across seven US dairy farms that evaluated the plant-based feed additive, Agolin Ruminant.
Last week saw US senator, Tammy Baldwin, lead a bipartisan group of colleagues in a letter to the US FDA encouraging the agency to review the role that feed additives play in achieving the Biden Administration’s goal of halving economy-wide GHGs by 2030...
As climate talks conclude in Sharm El Sheikh, for the first time ever a deal has been reached that will see agriculture integrated into the UN’s climate action body. The result of lengthy talks and a significant process of negotiation, does the so-called...
We caught up with Cargill at EuroTier in Hanover last week and heard about what the company has been doing in relation to methane emissions reduction in dairy cattle.
The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) is again urging the US FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) to keep pace with advances in animal nutrition.
The Irish government has set a target of 25% lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for its agriculture sector by 2030, but farmers say there are no financial incentives to help them achieve such a reduction.
The UK government is looking to boost innovation in the areas of feeds targeting methane emissions reduction and new sources of resource efficient, low-emission proteins.
A collaboration between biotech company Volta Greentech, supermarket chain Coop and food company Protos saw the world’s first methane-reduced beef hit the shelves in Sweden. How did it perform? FoodNavigator asks Fredrik Åkerman, CEO Volta Greentech.
Canada’s Pond Technologies has entered into a research agreement with AB Agri business, Livalta, and other parties, to find strains of algae that could help reduce enteric methane emissions from cattle when included in feed.
A dairy cattle diet containing rapeseed cake has the potential to reduce enteric methane emissions and simultaneously improve milk production along with its nutritional composition, find researchers.
One of Australia’s largest cattle producers, the North Australian Pastoral Company (NAPCo), has signed a collaboration and supply agreement with DSM, which will see the Dutch company’s feed additive, Bovaer, used through the NAPCo supply chain.
The animal nutrition business delivered 10% volume growth for DSM last year, revealed the company as it released its full year and Q4 2021 financial results.
Swedish startup, Volta Greentech, which is developing a supplement derived from the red algae, Asparagopsis, to reduce methane emissions in cattle, reports a research milestone.
The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) has found that DSM’s feed additive, 3-NOP, branded as Bovaer, reduces enteric methane emissions from dairy cows and is safe for the animal and the consumer.
As ADM unveiled its new animal nutrition lab in Rolle, Switzerland, expanding its R&D capabilities, we get the low down on the company’s goals for its feed additive portfolio.
Dutch-based startup Connecterra and Fonterra, which is owned by 8.800 New Zealand dairy farmers, are teaming up to expand access to artificial intelligence (AI) technology for farms across New Zealand in 2022.
Scientists at the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen’s University Belfast are to feed seaweed to farm animals in a bid to slash methane by at least 30%.
DSM is planning to realize large scale production capacity for its methane-reducing feed additive for ruminants, Bovaer, with a new plant at its existing manufacturing site in Dalry, Scotland.
JBS, one of the world’s largest food companies, has signed a deal with DSM to implement a development program based on the Dutch group’s feed additive, Bovaer, with the goal of reducing enteric methane emissions from beef cattle.
A report from environmental campaigners claims that failure to take action on methane emissions by the world’s biggest meat and dairy companies is fueling the climate crisis.
A partnership between industry, government and academia will see renowned US institute, Cornell University, build a lab aimed at reducing methane emissions.
The findings of initial research conducted in Northern Ireland indicate that willow leaves and branches could reduce methane emissions in livestock production.
Agrifirm has been busy globally and domestically in recent weeks, tapping into the major e-commerce trend in China, expanding in Brazil and investigating ways to reduce methane emissions in a new research partnership in the Netherlands.
US and EU feed trade groups have jointly backed the US-EU Union Global Methane Pledge, which calls for the use of scientific innovation to cut methane emissions by 30% below 2020 levels by 2030.
It is becoming increasingly clear that Europe’s meat sector needs to take major steps to move towards the goals on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as set out in the European Green Deal, says an analyst.
