Author
Cole, Noel | |
Todd, Richard | |
Hales Paxton, Kristin |
Submitted to: Government Publication/Report
Publication Type: Government Publication Publication Acceptance Date: 8/12/2011 Publication Date: 5/20/2012 Citation: Cole, N.A., Todd, R.W., Hales, K.E. 2012. Dietary management to decrease methane emissions from beef feedlots. Available:www.ars.usdagov/SP2UserFiles/Program/212. Interpretive Summary: Technical Abstract: Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that can be produced within the digestive tract of domestic (cattle, sheep), and undomesticated (bison, deer, elk) ruminants. This publicatoin gives a brief review of research on dietary procedures that have been tested to decrease enteric methane emissions from beef cattle. Enteric methane emisssions are decreased by feeding diets containing more grain (i.e less forage), and fat. A number of feed additives are potentially available to decrease enteric methane emissions, but most are not currently available or economically justified. |