Use of Residual Feed Intake as an Indirect Selection Trait for Reduction of Methane Emissions in Grazing Beef Cattle

Author(s)
Cottle, David
Publication Date
2011
Abstract
In Australia, cattle are the largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector. A short-fed domestic selection index has been used to predict the genetic gain in beef cattle traits using methane production and/or feed intake as selection criteria with various assumed carbon prices. Indirect selection for reduced methane emissions via feed intake was predicted to be more cost effective than direct measurement via methane emissions.
Citation
Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics, v.19, p. 423-425
ISBN
9780646559155
ISSN
1328-3227
Link
https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/14970
Language
en
Publisher
Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG)
Title
Use of Residual Feed Intake as an Indirect Selection Trait for Reduction of Methane Emissions in Grazing Beef Cattle
Type of document
Conference Publication
Entity Type
Publication

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