FoA 313: Farming Seaweed to Reduce Cattle Emissions with Joan Salwen of Blue Ocean Barns
Future of Agriculture
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Is There a Seaweed That Could Reduce Methane Gas by 90 %?
Asparagopsis is a dried grass out of a marine environment. In that form it's highly digestible and usable by the cow. We scientists have known for a long time that there's a whole suite of low molecular weight compounds that, if they are put into an anerotic environment, like the rumin, will interrupt the process of metin gas production. But some of those halgenated compounds had been fed to cattle, you know, a decade ago, and they either didn't have a lasting effect or made them sick. What we learned feeding it first to flasks and beakers and then to an artificial ruminand then to live dairy and beef cattle, is
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