Reducing methane production from pastoral agriculture lies at the heart of efforts to make pastoral agriculture more climate friendly. The starting point to understanding something about methane is to appreciate why ruminants produce methane. The bromoforms are particularly good at killing off the methanogens, but unfortunately, they tend to also mess up other parts of the rumen system. This methane is the outcome of evolutionary processes that produce animals that are fit for the grassland environment in which they live naturally. But across the all-species ruminant system, methane from effluent ponds comprises only about 4% of the total methane emissions.

Source: Stuff October 27, 2022 09:06 UTC