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Fighting Fire with Feeding

California’s cattle ranchers contribute a significant amount to the region’s culture, economy and food supply, but do they also inadvertently help to temper the wildfires that have been plaguing the state? And if so, is it a better alternative – environmentally speaking – to letting grasslands burn?

UC Davis’ Yanhong Liu Shores up PIG-PARADIGM Study

Yanhong Liu, an associate professor of animal nutrition and a member of the CLEAR Center at University of California, Davis (UC Davis), is bolstering the work of the five-year-long international PIG-PARADIGM study currently underway. In addition to lending her well-regarded expertise in animal nutrition and experience gained from her work to reduce antibiotics use in swine, Liu and other faculty from UC Davis are leading a project team of postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. candidates in nutrition, microbiology and big data analysis.

Report form UC Davis and CDFA Detailing Science on Enteric Methane Solutions Released

Several months after the California Department of Food and Agriculture; University of California, Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and UC Davis CLEAR Center staged the State of the Science Summit: Feed Strategies to Reduce Enteric Emissions May 2 and 3, 2023, organizers have issued a written report to capsulize some of the information shared at the conference and to encourage others to join them in a spirit of cooperation aim

United Nations FAO Report on Livestock Methane is Must-Read

So, it might not be the type of reading you toss in your beach bag, but according to people who know, it’s something you nevertheless should read – or at least read about. “It is very technical, but it is standard setting,” says Frank Mitloehner, an expert in animal agriculture and air quality from University of California, Davis, where he also directs the CLEAR Center, an organization committed to finding better, more sustainable ways to grow the world’s food.

Pork Industry Aims to Cut Methane

When the workday is over for Wen Murphy, more often than not, he continues to think about his job. A fourth-generation farmer, he constantly keeps top of mind the staff, the animals, the productivity, the supplies, the cash flow and myriad other details that must be attended to. In short, the sustainability of being a hog farmer. But above all, he is preoccupied with what he will leave for his family members and others who will someday walk the path of those who went before him.

Dr. Frank Mitloehner Joins the Dairy Intelligent Podcast to Discuss How Animal Agriculture Can Be Part of a Climate Solution

The UC Davis CLEAR Center’s Dr. Frank Mitloehner spoke on the Dairy Intelligent podcast in an episode called Rethinking Methane. Dr. Mitloehner explained how methane warms our atmosphere differently than other greenhouse gases, and how rethinking methane's role in our atmosphere reveals that animal agriculture can feasibly be on the path to climate neutrality.