Windfall Bio founder Josh Silverman, PhD speaks to DairyReporter about his company's first-of-a-kind solution to reducing on-farm methane emissions and creating organic, nitrogen-enriched fertilizer. ‘We want this to be cheap enough so that any farmer...
Researchers have discovered that adding a chemical commonly used as a nitrogen fertilizer in to slurry could dramatically slash greenhouse gas emissions.
The technology can turn livestock slurry into nitrogen-rich fertilizer by using air and electricity. Soon, it may find application in other food production systems such as pork.
The French dairy giant has become the world’s first food company to make a methane-specific climate pledge - but questions remain around how this ambition could be realized.
The solution, developed in New Zealand by Ruminant BioTech, could provide a ‘set and forget’ method to eliminate at least 70% of methane emissions from livestock across six months.
DSM’s novel methane-reducing feed additive for cattle will be manufactured at scale in Dalry, Scotland, where construction work on a large production plant has commenced.
Technological advances will soon allow the dairy and the livestock sectors to neutralise their climate impact, FoodNavigator’s Climate Smart Food heard.
A red seaweed supplement is set to ‘dramatically reduce’ dairy methane emissions for brands including Ben & Jerry’s, Clover Sonoma and Straus Family Creamery.
In partnership with Australian company Sea Forest, Fonterra is looking at the potential Asparagopsis seaweed has in reducing methane in a grass-fed farming system.
Elanco Animal Health Incorporated has secured the exclusive US licensing rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize Royal DSM’s methane-reduction product Bovaer for beef and dairy cattle.
Dutch dairy cooperative FrieslandCampina is undertaking a large-scale pilot project to gain practical experience with Bovaer, DSM’s feed additive that can reduce methane emissions from cows by around 30%.
N2 Applied's core business is to reduce methane and ammonia emissions from food production, and in-turn convert livestock manure into effective and sustainable nitrogen-rich fertilizer.
This week, we feature interviews with two companies involved with the upcoming FiE event. We have conversations with Rudy Wouters, head of the BENEO Technology Center and Myriam Snaet, head of market intelligence and consumer insights at BENEO; and Maartje...
European agricultural technology business N2 Applied has a pilot project of its technology that eliminates harmful emissions and enriches the nutrient content of livestock manure.
Royal DSM, a global science-based company, announced at COP26 in Glasgow that it is planning to realize large-scale production capacity for its methane-reducing feed additive for ruminants, Bovaer, with a new plant at its existing site in Dalry, Scotland.
Straus Family Creamery and seaweed-supplement maker Blue Ocean Barns have reduced dairy cows’ enteric methane emissions by an average of 52%, and as much as 90%, by supplementing their diets with seaweed.
N2 Applied, the Norway-headquartered agricultural technology company, has announced the results of sustainable fertilizer testing that show practically all ammonia emissions were successfully trapped in converted cow manure when applied to fields.
Norwegian agtech business N2 Applied has completed a further fundraising of NOK 83m ($9.6m) from existing shareholders to accelerate the commercial rollout of technology converting animal manure into sustainable fertiliser while trapping greenhouse gases.
Agolin SA, a Swiss based company developing and marketing feed additives based on botanical compounds, has joined with global chocolate producer Barry Callebaut and Gold Standard (GS), a carbon reduction project development and verification provider,...
The Pathways to Dairy Net Zero initiative is being developed by the Global Dairy Platform (GDP), a group consisting of dairy companies and dairy associations, to accelerate climate change action throughout the global dairy sector.
Fonterra and Royal DSM, a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and sustainable living, are teaming up to work on reducing on-farm greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in New Zealand.
Valio, Finland’s largest dairy cooperative, and Netherlands-based Royal DSM, have signed a collaboration agreement to reduce the carbon footprint of dairy production in Finland.
How can farms reduce their greenhouse gas footprint—not tomorrow, when regulators have ruled on what is acceptable and passed it on to the dairy industry to be acted on, but right now?
Antipodean academics have been breaking through in methane production research
A puffy pink seaweed that can stop flatulent Friesians and gassy Guernseys from burping out methane is being primed for mass farming by Australian researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast.
DSM, a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and sustainable living, has filed for EU authorization for a new feed additive for dairy cows that will reduce methane emissions by around 30%.
A partnership between California Bioenergy LLC and US food company Land O'Lakes Inc., will generate renewable compressed natural gas (R-CNG) fuel through the financing, installation and management of methane digesters on farms in California.
Norwegian dairy company TINE is considering establishing a separate biogas company that, using cow manure, will make fuel and energy for the company's vehicles and dairies.
Brewers and dairy processors are failing to capitalise on the
potential long-term cost and energy benefits of using biogas,
according to a major supplier of the technology.
