When Dr. Leluo Guan peers inside a cow’s stomach, she sees more than microbes—she sees an opportunity to cut methane emissions from cattle and improve profits for Canadian beef and dairy farmers.
When Dr. Leluo Guan peers inside a cow’s stomach, she sees more than microbes—she sees an opportunity to cut methane emissions from cattle and improve profits for Canadian beef and dairy farmers.
The industries contribute more than $50 billion annually to Canada’s GDP and support thousands of jobs from British Columbia to Ontario and Quebec. But cattle account for more than half of Canada’s agricultural methane emissions—a potent driver of global warming.
For farmers already navigating high feed costs, droughts and trade pressures, methane is both a climate challenge and an economic problem.
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