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Seaweed in cattle feed can eliminate 99.9% of methane

23/02/2021

An Australian idea that won a $1 million prize at the end of 2020 can almost entirely eliminate methane emissions from cattle according to one of the scientists who developed the project.

Researchers from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), from meat industry promotions body Meat & Livestock Australia and from James Cook University in Queensland launched a project to examine the effect on emissions of adding a native seaweed, asparagopsis, to cattle feed.

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