Genus and SRUC have carried out ground-breaking research on beef cattle showing the potential of ruminal microbiome-driven breeding to mitigate methane emissions with an expected reduction of up to 17% per generation (MartínezÁlvaro et al., 2022) and improvement of feed conversion ratio by up to 15% per generation. The overall innovation is to optimise this highly promising new breeding strategy to cost-effectively mitigate CH4 emissions and improve FCR.
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