There's also the issue that increased demand for beef results in a greater number of cows being bred for food consumption. So, it's not so much that the amount of methane produced from cows and decomposing grass is similar, but rather what is the right balance of cows to land and feed crop.
25 years ago while researching my book "Kiwi Ingenuity" in the Auckland Public Library,
I was reading about NZ farmer inventions.
The now defunct, NZ Journal of Agriculture had a discussion going about reducing annoying cow belching in the milking shed. The answer was simple, feed them Tea. Farmers were told to grow Camelia Sinensis and feed it as a supplement or add it to sileage. Problem solved. I'm sure someone decided to even add a brew to their water.
Your comments about how the grass and field decomposition would be less is not well established
See attached research paper done in the Netherlands
https://edepot.wur.nl/201574
There's also the issue that increased demand for beef results in a greater number of cows being bred for food consumption. So, it's not so much that the amount of methane produced from cows and decomposing grass is similar, but rather what is the right balance of cows to land and feed crop.
So have you given up milk too?
25 years ago while researching my book "Kiwi Ingenuity" in the Auckland Public Library,
I was reading about NZ farmer inventions.
The now defunct, NZ Journal of Agriculture had a discussion going about reducing annoying cow belching in the milking shed. The answer was simple, feed them Tea. Farmers were told to grow Camelia Sinensis and feed it as a supplement or add it to sileage. Problem solved. I'm sure someone decided to even add a brew to their water.
This was from back issues in the 1930s.
Have we forgotten what we already knew?
Solar Bob,
Rarotonga.