Methane Mitigation Strategies for Dairy Herds
Proceedings Home | W2W Home Purpose The U.S. dairy industry has committed to lowering the carbon footprint of milk production by 25% by 2020. A key factor in meeting this goal is reducing enteric...
View ArticleTransferring Knowledge of Dairy Sustainability Issues Through a Multi-layered...
Proceedings Home | W2W Home Purpose The goal of the Sustainable Dairy “Virtual Farm” website is to disseminate research-based information to diverse audiences from one platform. This is done with...
View ArticleIntake and Digestibility of Nutrients, Manure Production, and Nitrogen...
Proceedings Home | W2W Home Purpose This study was to determine the effects of nonfiber carbohydrate (NFC) sources and rumen degradable protein (RDP) levels in diet on apparent total-tract...
View ArticleA Quantitative Assessment of Beneficial Management Practices to Reduce Carbon...
Proceedings Home | W2W Home Purpose Assessing and improving the sustainability of dairy production is essential to secure future food production. Implementation of Beneficial Management Practices...
View ArticleNutrient Cycling in Horse Pastures
Proceedings Home | W2W Home Purpose This presentation will review the existing multi-species literature on nutrient cycling and how it is affected by the horse’s diet and rotational grazing. Grazed...
View ArticleMethods for Regulating Dry Matter Intake in Grazing Horses
Proceedings Home | W2W Home Purpose Pasture dry matter intake of many horses (e.g., mature idle horses) exceeds that necessary to provide daily energy requirements creating an inefficiency. One...
View ArticleEvaluation of a Model to Predict Enteric Methane Production from Feedlot Cattle
Proceedings Home | W2W Home Purpose Continual refinement of methods estimating enteric methane production in beef finishing cattle provides a more accurate assessment of the environmental impact of...
View ArticleLivestock Methane Emissions Estimated and Mapped at a County-level Scale for...
Proceedings Home | W2W Home Purpose This analysis of methane emissions used a “bottom-up” approach based on animal inventories, feed dry matter intake, and emission factors to estimate...
View ArticlePlanning for Resilience: Using Scenarios to Address Potential Impacts of...
Proceedings Home | W2W Home Purpose Resiliency to weather extremes is a topic that Northern Plains farmers and ranchers are already familiar with, but now climate change is adding new uncertainties...
View ArticleUSDA-NRCS and the National Air Quality Site Assessment Tool (NAQSAT) for...
Proceedings Home | W2W Home Purpose The National Air Quality Site Assessment Tool (NAQSAT) was developed as a first-of-its-kind tool to help producers and their advisors assess the impact of...
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