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1567: High sugar grasses reduce methane emissions
This paper is summarised from BSAS Animal Bytes
Year of Publication2012
Offering a mixture of high water soluble carbohydrate forages to growing lambs reduces methane emissions per kg of live weight gain by up to 25%.
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- Subject Collection > Livestock & dairy > Grassland management
- Subject Collection > Livestock & dairy > Sheep production
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