It is true! Methane to be exact, and it’s a good chunk of the carbon footprint on a dairy farm. And this is why farmers and ruminant nutrition experts have a few tools to improve our cows' nutrition, their feed efficiency, so they burp less methane.
Scientific research is revealing more ways to improve cow digestion, evolving genetic traits over time so they are more productive and reduce methane, and other ways farmers do their part to protect the planet, such as capturing carbon when they grow crops and in farmlands, using various technologies, and recycling and reusing resources too.
Thanks to such various initiatives, the footprint of a litre of milk produced in Canada is one of the lowest in the world! The possibilities are also exciting when we look at methane and other natural resources as a renewable cycle.
