Methane production is a big carbon dioxide producers and a particularly potent greenhouse gas — with more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over a 20-year time span. This comes from for example dairy cows and from cattle farms that produce meat. And so those farmers and everyone else in the supply chain need to be aware and help cut down that methane production as well carbon monoxide from the deliveries and other machines.
Consumers are increasingly looking for corporate action on agricultural methane emissions. Methane comprises the majority of greenhouse gas emissions in the dairy supply chain, so reducing methane is indispensable for companies with net zero climate goals.
Methane comes from cow burps and cow manure. 2023 dairy giant Danone partnered with EDF to reduce methane from its fresh milk supply chain 30% by 2030 and United Nations climate talks, COP28, will put a focus on food-related emissions.
Having grown up neighbor to a dairy farm I know the dairy cows often are indoors. And so why not install an air-cleaning system in their barn is one of my own ideas. The cow poop then is gathered in an huge box, built with cement blocks, outside. It has no roof. So why not make a roof and do the same there. The poop is then staying there until it is "burned", meaning now it is all dry and usable on the fields as fertilizer. Bringing that back into the ground in the fields would mean we return it into the cycle, wouldn't it? We are just midding taking care of what it emitts in this part of the circle.
Then I think if we medicate the cows being outside so they burp less is another possibility. Burping is part of their digestion.
