Wider interest
Findings from a study measuring methane emissions from dairy cattle to help agriculture’s transition to net zero have been published.
The project, led by researchers at Newcastle University’s School of Natural and Environment Sciences, aimed to demonstrate that low-cost technology and analytical procedures can quantify greenhouse gas emissions from dairy cattle.
Carried out at the university’s Nafferton Farm in Northumberland, the research, funded by the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE), laid the groundwork for non-invasively quantifying dairy cow breath concentration of methane. The low-cost design hopes to make measuring and monitoring other UK dairy farms accessible, resulting in data-driven implementation of mitigation measures.
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