Feeding cows seaweed? It might sound strange, but it could help farms reduce their climate impact. When animals like cows, goats, and sheep digest their food, they burp up methane – an extremely ...

This shift has resulted in a three-fold bump in feed efficiency, as modern dairy cows produce significantly more milk from each pound of feed. Despite this rise in individual productivity and intake, ...

In the process of digesting forage and other feed, microbes in the cow’s rumen convert the carbon in those feedstuffs to methane, which is then released into the atmosphere. But he notes that methane ...

Jeff Bezos has invested $9.4 million through the Bezos Earth Fund into developing a vaccine aimed at reducing methane emissions from cows. This innovative approach could revolutionize livestock ...

Sensors that sample cows’ breath while they are feeding in the milking parlour could provide a simpler and more accurate solution to monitoring methane emissions. The sniffer sensor technology ...

The meat came from a dairy cow. “It’s a premium product,” says executive chef and partner Daniel ... “The challenge is that sustainability means something different to everyone. Is it reduced methane ...

That methane is released through belching and farting, and on average, a single cow can produce about 200 pounds of it per year. The gas is also released by manure, and livestock accounts for ...