Towards mitigation of greenhouse emissions from grazing and forage based ruminant production systems

Title
Towards mitigation of greenhouse emissions from grazing and forage based ruminant production systems
Publication Date
2024-07
Author(s)
Cowley, Frances C
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OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6475-1503
Email: fcowley@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:fcowley
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Australian Association of Animal Sciences
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/61700
Abstract

Whilst the vast majority of enteric methane (CH4) emissions globally derive from grazing ruminants, progress to abate emissions from these systems in the last decade has been incremental. Significant gains have been made in development of technologies with the potential to almost completely mitigate enteric CH4 in confined animals fed total mixed rations using in-feed inhibitory compounds, but translation of such technologies to tropical grazing systems has been challenging, due to short periods of bioactive availability in the rumen, temporal mismatch of consumption of CH4-inhibiting compounds with CH4-producing biomass, delivery and voluntary consumption of in-feed inhibitors in nutritional supplements to extensively managed animals, among other obstacles.

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Citation
Proceedings of the 35th Biennial Conference of the Australian Association of Animal Sciences and the 20th Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies, v.35, p. 5-5
ISSN
0728-5965
Start page
5
End page
5

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