2020年7月21日 · We have one of the world’s largest dairy culture collections to call on. We’re using some of these cultures to create new fermentations we’re calling Kowbucha™, which could potentially switch off the bad bugs that create the methane in cows.

2022年3月17日 · The co-op's research and development (R&D) centre has been looking at natural ways to inhibit cows from producing methane and has come up with something they're calling Kowbucha.

2024年1月10日 · Trials are continuing on Fonterra’s long-awaited Kowbucha methane mitigation project as scientists work to determine how safe and efficacious the product is in New Zealand dairy herds.

Fonterra has trademarked the term Kowbucha, after early trials using probiotics to reduce methane production in cows showed promising results. The term is a play on kombucha, the popular fermented tea drink.

2022年10月16日 · New Zealand researchers say they found a probiotic formula known as "kowbucha" to reduce methane emissions from cow burps by 20%. The research could help New Zealand farmers as government leaders recently proposed taxing …

Confidential to Fonterra Co -operative Group What is Kowbucha™? Kowbucha™ is a potential methane-busting probiotic solution Why probiotics? Safe for animals Easy to implement Affordable No residue issues Easily scalable

2022年10月16日 · "So 'Kowbucha' is a natural potential probiotic methane-busting solution to reducing methane emissions on farms in New Zealand and potentially globally,” Shalome Basset, Fonterra Research and...

2021年4月27日 · Branded Kowbucha, a nod to the popular fermented drink kombucha, it’s being tested by one of the world’s biggest dairy producers, Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd., to see if it can reduce the amount of methane burped out by the country’s 4.9 million cows.

2020年7月21日 · Without giving away too many secrets, Mark confirms Fonterra is looking at natural ways to stop the cow producing methane in the first place. We have one of the world’s largest dairy culture collections to call on.

2021年11月23日 · Fonterra has launched its on-farm trials to see how the probiotics perform in the real environment in collaboration with the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium (PGgRc), Massey University and AgResearch where a group of calves will have Kowbucha as part of their regular milk feeding.