Decreasing methane emissions from ruminants grazing forages: a fit with productive and financial realities?

D Pacheco, G Waghorn… - Animal Production …, 2014 - CSIRO Publishing
Ruminants contribute to human food supply and also anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions. An understanding of production systems and information on animal populations …

Behavior and foraging ecology of cattle: A review

BK Sahu, A Parganiha, AK Pati - Journal of Veterinary Behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
Cattle are diurnal and distributed all over the world. They are true ruminants and exhibit
several behaviors, namely, foraging, reproductive, social, maternal care, dominance …

Predicting enteric methane production from cattle in the tropics

RS Ribeiro, JPP Rodrigues, RM Maurício, A Borges… - Animal, 2020 - cambridge.org
Accurate estimates of methane (CH4) production by cattle in different contexts are essential
to developing mitigation strategies in different regions. We aimed to:(i) compile a database …

An LCA researcher's wish list–data and emission models needed to improve LCA studies of animal production

C Cederberg, M Henriksson, M Berglund - Animal, 2013 - cambridge.org
The last decade has seen an increase in environmental systems analysis of livestock
production, resulting in a significant number of studies with a holistic approach often based …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic changes and characterization of the protein and carbohydrate fractions of native grass grown in Inner Mongolia during ensiling and the aerobic …

Z Du, N Risu, G Gentu, Y Jia, Y Cai - Asian-Australasian journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To improve the utility of native grass resources as feed in China, we investigated
the dynamics of protein and carbohydrate fractions among Inner Mongolian native grasses …

Methods of methane measurement in ruminants

J Brouček - Slovak Journal of Animal Science, 2014 - office.sjas-journal.org
This review is devoted to methodology, which can help direct and indirect measurement of
methane emissions. This paper will be useful for expanding the knowledge base of …

[HTML][HTML] Variability in greenhouse gas emission intensity of semi-intensive suckler cow beef production systems

S Samsonstuen, BA Åby, P Crosson, KA Beauchemin… - Livestock Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Emission intensities from beef production vary both among production systems (countries)
and farms within a country depending upon use of natural resources and management …

Productive, economic and environmental effects of optimised feeding strategies in small-scale dairy farms in the Highlands of Mexico

J Velarde-Guillén, F López-González… - Journal of Agriculture …, 2017 - jaeid.it
Since most dairy production in developing countries comes from small farms, there is scope
to reduce their contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the highlands of Mexico …

A modified version of the Molly rumen model to quantify methane emissions from sheep

I Vetharaniam, RE Vibart, MD Hanigan… - Journal of Animal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We modified the rumen submodel of the Molly dairy cow model to simulate the rumen of a
sheep and predict its methane emissions. We introduced a rumen hydrogen (H2) pool as a …

Estimating enteric methane production for beef cattle using empirical prediction models compared with IPCC Tier 2 methodology

P Escobar-Bahamondes, M Oba… - Canadian Journal of …, 2017 - cdnsciencepub.com
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Tier 2 methodology and 16 empirical
models together with dietary information were used to estimate daily methane (CH4) …