SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Early indications of a University of California, Davis study show that feeding dairy cows seaweed may reduce methane emissions caused by their defecation, belching and flatulence, the university announced Thursday.
UC Davis animal science department chair Ermias Kebreab and animal nutrition graduate student Breanne Roque separated 12 Holstein cows into three groups, two of which received different doses of seaweed in their feed and one of which got no seaweed at all.
“The numbers we’re seeing are
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