Two groups to study methane from cattle belches

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Two groups to study methane from cattle belches

The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy just launched the Greener Cattle Initiative, a joint research effort to reduce methane emissions from cattle.

The groups told world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference in Scotland they will give a million a year for five years to help fund research that can provide beef and dairy cattle producers with ways to curb enteric methane emissions, the methane that comes from cows belching or exhaling. 

Enteric fermentation is part of the normal digestive process in ruminants like cattle.  Dr. Juan Tricarico with the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy says the studies will work to identify, develop, and validate effective mitigation options that will also meet farmer and consumer needs.

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