Bulls that burp less: fathering a new dairy herd

Bulls that burp less: fathering a new dairy herd
The welfare of the bulls taking part in the trial is being constantly monitored by LIC, with oversight from the Ruakura Ethics Committee which has approved the project.
Rebecca Howard
New technologies such as cow vaccines and probiotics to tackle agricultural emissions as well as bulls that potentially burp less are one step closer.“New Zealand has been a leader in pastoral farm production, now we need to be leaders at reducing while producing,” Damien O’Connor, the agriculture minister, said.Eleven research projects, funded and delivered under the alliance of 64 countries, have been recently completed under the Global Research on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA).NZ contributed one-third of the global in...

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