{"id":4062,"date":"2015-08-18T21:33:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T01:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4062"},"modified":"2015-08-18T21:33:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T01:33:45","slug":"scientists-find-way-to-reduce-methane-emissions-from-cattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/08\/scientists-find-way-to-reduce-methane-emissions-from-cattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find way to reduce methane emissions from cattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cows are one of the biggest producers of methane on Earth, although they are surpassed by methane emission as a byproduct of fracking. \u00a0Methane is one of the most efficient greenhouse gases, and increases in atmospheric methane are one of the major contributors to the rise in greenhouse gas impacts in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Now, scientists at Penn State University have identified a dietary supplement,\u00a03-nitrooxypropanol, or 3NOP, which suppresses methane production in the cow’s digestive system. \u00a0The preliminary results indicate a 30 percent reduction in methane emission. \u00a0An interesting byproduct of this supplement is that cattle on the supplement gain weight much more quickly than the cows on a normal diet. \u00a0The cows do not appear to suffer any discomfort from the use of the supplement.<\/p>\n

You can read stories about it at Modern Farmer<\/em> here<\/a> and AAAS’ EurekAlert<\/em> blog site here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Cows are one of the biggest producers of methane on Earth, although they are surpassed by methane emission as a byproduct of fracking. \u00a0Methane is one of the most efficient greenhouse gases, and increases in atmospheric methane are one of the major contributors to the rise in greenhouse gas impacts in the atmosphere. Now, scientists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4062","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\/4062","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=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4068,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions\/4068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}