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Effect of forage type on methane production from dairy cows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

A.R. McCourt ,
T. Yan  and
C.S. Mayne
A.R. McCourt*
Affiliation:
Agri-food and Biosciences Institute, Hillsborough, United Kingdom
T. Yan
Affiliation:
Agri-food and Biosciences Institute, Hillsborough, United Kingdom
C.S. Mayne
Affiliation:
Agri-food and Biosciences Institute, Hillsborough, United Kingdom
*
Email:amccourt05@qub.ac.uk
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Methane (CH4) has attracted considerable attention in recent years because of its contribution to the greenhouse effect, as it has a 100-year global warming potential 23 times that of carbon dioxide (IPCC, 2001). Dairy cows are major contributors to the production of methane from the agricultural sector in Europe because of their large numbers and high emission factors. Methane production is affected by several factors, one of which is diet; for example, the type of forage offered to ruminants has an important effect on methane production (Boadi et al., 2004). The aim of this experiment was to investigate how different forage types affected methane production from dairy cows.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2007 , April 2007 , pp. 48
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2007

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