Canada invests $1.1 million to reduce methane gas emissions in cattle
“Canadian farmers are great stewards of the land and the environment. These new investments are part of the government’s commitment to addressing climate change and ensuring our farmers are world leaders in the use and development of clean and sustainable technology and processes,” said Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, in a statement.
The principal investigator on the study, Dr. Erasmus Okine, University of Lethbridge vice-president (Research), along with a team of experts from the university will test the effects of biochar, a charcoal-rich product that results from pyrolysis of biomass, added in small proportion to cattle feed. The biochar should improve digestion in cattle and therefore decrease the amount of methane that they produce.
“What we are trying to do is a proof of concept in terms of adding biochar to the feed and to see whether there are benefits on the larger scale to the cattle we are testing,” says Okine.
The study is called 'Assessment of the Potential of Biochar Added to Beef Cattle Diets to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Agriculture' and is one of 20 projects that received funding from the Agricultural Greenhouse Gases Program
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