Brooke: Proving cattle methane cuts boost yield requires thousands of animals
Charles Brooke · Solving the cow burp problem · Jan 26, 2024 · at 35:21
Charles Brooke of Spark Climate Solutions explains why animal efficiency gains from methane mitigation remain difficult to prove empirically.
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“Because of the expense that we've seen with doing these types of trials, we haven't had a lot of great representations of the reduction in methane leading to a increase in productivity. While that is possible, the number of animals you need for those studies is significant, and that's just, sometimes you need to get to actual on-farm, like on-farm level production numbers to be able to demonstrate that. That type of production increase. You know, thousands of animals, which might not be tenable for a , you know, an academic trial or a clinical practice trial.”
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