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Application of a mechanistic model of methanogenesis in the lactating dairy cow. The fate of hydrogen during fermentation and strategies to mitigate methane emissions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

J A N Mills ,
J. Dijkstra ,
A. Bannink ,
E. Kebreab ,
S.B. Cammell ,
L.A. Crompton  and
J. France
J A N Mills
Affiliation:
The University of Reading, Department of Agriculture, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT
J. Dijkstra
Affiliation:
WIAS Animal Nutrition, Wageningen University, Marijkeweg 40, PO Box 338, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands
A. Bannink
Affiliation:
ID-Lelystad, Department of Animal Nutrition, PO Box 65, NL 8200 AB Lelystad, The Netherlands
E. Kebreab
Affiliation:
The University of Reading, Department of Agriculture, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT
S.B. Cammell
Affiliation:
The University of Reading, Department of Agriculture, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT
L.A. Crompton
Affiliation:
The University of Reading, Department of Agriculture, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT
J. France
Affiliation:
The University of Reading, Department of Agriculture, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT
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Dietary intervention to reduce methane emissions from lactating dairy cattle is both environmentally and nutritionally desirable due to the importance of methane as a causative agent in global warming and as a significant loss of feed energy. This investigation involved the development of a dynamic mechanistic model of whole rumen function (Dijkstra et al. 1992), with the objective to simulate whole-animal methane emissions for a range of dietary inputs.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2001 , 2001 , pp. 122
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2001

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