Feeding steam-flaked corn to cattle reduces enteric methane emissions

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, agriculture accounts for about 10% of America’s greenhouse gas emissions, and enteric (intestinal) emissions and manure management account for about 27% of that. Scientists at the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s Conservation and Production Research Laboratory in Bushland, Texas, recently took up a challenge to estimate how cattle feeding can knock methane numbers down. In a twist on the theory that ‘what goes up must come down,’ they examined how ‘what goes in…