2 major indicators for methane emission found

Methane emission can be reduced through selective breeding, and provided fundamental knowledge about the production of methane in the rumen dairy cows. This has been concluded from the 4-year TiFN project ‘Reduced methane emission of diary cows’, carried out by Wageningen University in the Netherlands.The project started in 2012 and most activities have now been finalised. One of the key issues was the development of so-called indicators for methane emission, because of the need for simple