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The cow fart climate change colletivists get their lying bovine arses
kicked again:
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1824446026935103767
Take that Bill Gates: The University of Nebraska recently completed a
study showing that the way to reduce carbon in the atmosphere is by
raising more cows. According to their findings, cows are actually
carbon negative.
“Optimizing grazing systems is the best way to ensure that carbon is
being taken up by the pasture, cattle are growing from utilization of
the forage, and greenhouse gas emissions are being offset of cattle from
birth to slaughter”.
Pasture grazing for 180 days of the year is the best way to ensure
cattle do not have a negative impact on the climate.
For example, while pasture grazing is important, weather conditions in Nebraska do not allow producers to have cattle graze year-round because
of the grass’s growth. Finishing cattle in dry lots allows for a
year-round beef supply and a faster rate of gain, further reducing
negative impacts.
“When optimized grazing is applied based on the climate and the region, there is more carbon sequestered than what cattle breathe out in CO2
and produce in methane”.
https://beef.unl.edu/documents/2023-beef-report/81-86_McPhillips_MP117-2023.pdf
Conclusion
The partial-confinement system resulted
in less over all emissions of CO2and CH4.
Calves from this system were smaller at
weaning and required more days on feed to
achieve market weight. The pasture-based
production system produced more emissions of CO2
and CH4but more carbon was
sequestered from the annual forages grazed
in that system. Cows from this system
were either carbon neutral or a carbon sink
depending on the GHG accounting metrics
used.
Traditional research in beef production considers only emissions. The
data forthese grazing situations indicate that soil
carbon uptake is greater than all emissions
from beef production. Additional research
is needed to measure carbon sequestration
over multiple years, varying types of forages
and stocking densities to determine how
much carbon can be sequestered within the
beef production system.
Moo.
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