How healthier farm animals can cut greenhouse gas emissions

Preventing disease and miscarriage in cattle can help reduce methane emissions. Pravine/Shutterstock When a dairy cow miscarries, a farmer loses far more than an unborn calf. Feed has been grown, land and water used, and greenhouse gas released during the cow’s pregnancy but milk production, a future animal and income will be lost. One of the most important of these greenhouse gases is methane. Methane is produced by microbes within a cow’s stomach during digestion (known as enteric-methane)…