California’s methane-target program shows how partnerships can support livestock producers and research while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, says expert.
The animal nutrition business delivered a solid result with strong sales growth across regions and species, said DSM, as it announces its Q4 and FY2019 results.
As cows burb, they emit the methane produced in their stomach, and this factor makes dairy and beef production responsible for a significant amount of man-made global warming. So the race is on to find solutions to reduce methane emissions in livestock,...
Supplementing beef cattle diets with nitrate and canola oil lowered methane yield and daily methane production but it does not alter the flow of microbial non-ammonia nitrogen, researchers say.
DSM recently announced it is taking the next step towards implementing its methane inhibitor, now branded as Bovaer, in the Netherlands through a trial at the Dairy Campus in Leeuwarden.