91制片厂

At 91制片厂, SEAWEED has made itself useful as everything from a healthy platform for raising mussels and trout to a salty-sweet ingredient in a university-brewed beer. Now, it turns out, it may help limit the methane produced by the university鈥檚 dairy cows.

Studies have long shown that cows and other ruminants are significant producers of the greenhouse gas methane, contributing some 37 percent of the Earth鈥檚 methane emissions tied to human activity. In a study conducted last summer by researchers at 91制片厂 and the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES), organic dairy cows fed kelp meal produced less methane for part of the summer grazing season. Now, these researchers are collaborating on a $3 million grant from the Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund to investigate reducing methane emissions of lactating dairy cows by supplementing their diet with kelp meal and other seaweeds.

The grant will bring together researchers from 91制片厂, Maine鈥檚 Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment, Colby College and the University of Vermont. 91制片厂鈥檚 portion of the project involves conducting feeding trials with the herd at the 91制片厂/NHAES Organic Dairy Research Farm in Lee. Associate professor of dairy cattle nutrition and management Andre Brito will lead the project, with the aim of evaluating not only whether seaweed feed suppresses greenhouse gas emissions in grazing dairy cows, but also if it plays a role in improving cows鈥� health.

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