AS the livestock industry becomes increasingly sophisticated around its role in contributing to net zero goals, so too should the measures it adopts to assess the effectiveness of methane inhibitors in cattle.
Just as chasing high weaning weights can have a negative impact on calving ease (by virtue of associated higher birth weights), a cattle industry looking to reduce its methane emissions needs to adopt measurements that provide a net benefit.
Methane yield versus output
To date methane reduction has been the simplest and therefore most readily and widely adopted measure. It compares…
