New Technical Guidelines Pave the Way for Widespread Adoption of Methane-Reducing Feed Additives in Dairy and Livestock

In a special issue of the Journal of Dairy Science a global team of experts synthesizes decades of nutrition innovation on feed additives for methane reduction.

After many decades of research, the dairy sector has a significant body of peer-reviewed research showing that feed additives can effectively reduce methane, the greenhouse gas that makes up most of dairy’s environmental footprint. Yet the practical use of this knowledge on farms—as well as general awareness around additive effectiveness and safety—is still gaining momentum. At this critical point in the dairy sector’s pathway to a net-zero future, the Journal of Dairy Science opens in new tab/window, the leading general dairy research journal from the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA), has released a special issue opens in new tab/window translating this nutrition innovation into detailed technical recommendations on developing and implementing feed additives. The result is a feed additive toolkit to help researchers, dairy professionals, product developers, producers, and consumers fill knowledge gaps and supercharge feed additive adoption to reduce dairy’s environmental footprint today and into the future.

This issue, Feed Additives for Methane Mitigation opens in new tab/window, presents the first outcomes of a flagship project by the Feed and Nutrition Network of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases opens in new tab/window’ Livestock Research Group. David Yáñez-Ruiz, PhD, of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC; Granada, Spain), one of the project’s co-leads, explained, “This collaborative effort gathered 60 leading researchers from 46 institutions across 23 countries to form a robust network of scientists dedicated to reducing methane emissions from ruminants, which is a crucial goal as we combat climate change.”

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