{"id":11832,"date":"2017-07-20T16:35:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11832"},"modified":"2017-07-20T16:35:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:35:39","slug":"can-feeding-cows-seaweed-reduce-their-methane-output-irish-farmers-want-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/07\/can-feeding-cows-seaweed-reduce-their-methane-output-irish-farmers-want-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Can feeding cows seaweed reduce their methane output? Irish farmers want to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Food &amp; Wine<\/em> magazine posted an interesting story today about some recent research by Australian scientists which they claim shows that feeding cattle a diet with seaweed in it (as little as 2% is the claim) the methane output from the cows is significantly reduced. \u00a0Since Ireland is an island surrounded by the sea, Irish farmers are eager to put this to the test, since seaweed is abundant there. You can read more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/news\/seaweed-cows-climate-change?utm_campaign=foodandwine&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_fw\">here<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be interested to see if this pans out, since livestock production of methane is a significant contributor to the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. So far most of the testing seems to have been done on grass-fed cows.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1896\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/cows-on-pasture-ars-k7686-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1896\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/cows-on-pasture-ars-k7686-7-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/cows-on-pasture-ars-k7686-7-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/cows-on-pasture-ars-k7686-7-223x138.jpg 223w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/cows-on-pasture-ars-k7686-7.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food &amp; Wine magazine posted an interesting story today about some recent research by Australian scientists which they claim shows that feeding cattle a diet with seaweed in it (as little as 2% is the claim) the methane output from the cows is significantly reduced. \u00a0Since Ireland is an island surrounded by the sea, Irish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11833,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11832\/revisions\/11833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}