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The findings of initial research conducted in Northern Ireland indicate that willow leaves and branches could reduce methane emissions in livestock production.

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Agribusiness giant, Cargill, and UK company, ZELP, are partnering on novel technology that is designed to neutralize methane as cows exhale.

Swedish startup, Volta Greentech, which is focused on using seaweed to reduce methane emissions in cattle by up to 80%, has just closed a SEK 17 million (€1.7m) funding round to further expand its pilot production, and to prepare for the setting up of a large-scale factory. Participants in the latest funding round included investor, Claes Dinkelspiel, founder of internet bank Nordnet, Peter Carlsson, CEO at Swedish battery manufacturing company, Northvolt, along with one of Volta's customers in the retail sector. Volta is looking to commercialize a product derive...

Precision feeding in swine, and methane emissions mitigation strategies in ruminants are just two of around 50 research projects occupying the experts based at the ForFarmers Nutrition Innovation Center (NIC). We asked Ad van Wesel, director of the NIC, to give us a deeper dive on the team’s work and how it ties in with the manufacturer’s commercial feed production priorities. The innovation center consists of four teams: one focused on swine, one on ruminant related projects, another charged with poultry research and a fourth team working across species. “We...