E&E

Bipartisan lawmakers float incentives to cut cow emissions

Democratic and Republican senators introduced a bill to boost research and offer farmers incentives to reduce cows’ greenhouse gas emissions. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is proposing legislation ...
Southeast Missourian

Vt. farmers cut cows' emissions with new diet

COVENTRY, Vt. -- Vermont dairy farmers Tim Maikshilo and Kristen Dellert, mindful of shrinking their carbon footprint, have changed their cows' diet to reduce the amount of gas the animals burp -- ...
The Hill

Feeding grazing cows seaweed could cut their methane emissions by nearly 40 percent: Study

Supplementing the diets of grazing beef cows with seaweed in pellet form could cut their methane emissions by almost 40 percent, a new study has found. The seaweed pellets led to this plunge in ...
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

Vt. farmers cut cows’ emissions by altering diets

COVENTRY, Vt. (AP) - Vermont dairy farmers Tim Maikshilo and Kristen Dellert, mindful of shrinking their carbon footprint, have changed their cows' diet to reduce the amount of gas the animals burp - ...
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Farm cutting grass to feed cows after dry spring

The warmest spring on record has left a Worcester dairy farm feeding grass to its cows in the sheds because of a lack of grass in the fields where they usually graze. Tristan Bennett from Manor Farm, ...