Photo: Meat & Livestock Australia Managing Director Michael Crowley is one of many industry professionals excited by new methane findings.
A breakthrough in emissions research has delivered welcome news to Australia’s beef feedlot sector, with new data showing that methane emissions from grain-fed cattle are significantly lower than previously reported.
Until recently, the National Greenhouse Accounts relied on a 1979 equation by Moe and Tyrrell which is based on dairy cattle in the United States, to estimate methane emissions in Australian feedlots.
The latest data indicates that . . .
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