Merck Animal Health has announced that a new app that calculates the footprint of beef production. This app is designed for producers, suppliers and others in the food chain to estimate the economic impacts of their production on the environment.  It includes personalization by number of cattle and production method and provides suggestions for improvement of water use and greenhouse gas emission.  You can read more about it at Cattlenetwork.com here.

Source: Dirk Ingo Franke, Commons Wikimedia via AGU
Source: Dirk Ingo Franke, Commons Wikimedia via AGU