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Dr. Frank Mitloehner, CLEAR Center director and UC Davis professor and Cooperative Extension air quality specialist, joined University of Oxford professor of physics, Dr. Myles Allen, and other climate scientists to testify at a special meeting of the Irish Joint Orieachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The meeting focused on how methane emissions – including those from animal agriculture – should be considered and calculated by the country.

Recently UC Davis students voted to change the University's mascot from Gunrock the horse to a cow. The campaign acknowledges the importance of agriculture to the school's identity. CLEAR Center Director Dr. Mitloehner is quoted in an article by Sahalie Donaldson in The Chronicle of Higher Education which details the campaign and its impetus, as well as hurdles to actually changing mascots. 

One percent a year. If the California dairy sector can reduce its methane emissions by that amount, it could reach net-zero warming in a decade’s time.  

MANHATTAN, Kan. – A University of California, Davis professor who has spent nearly two decades studying the relationship between the livestock industry and air quality told a crowd of nearly 800 at Kansas State University Monday that agriculture can be a powerful part of the solution in reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. 

Frank Mitloehner is the featured speaker at the Heuermann Lecture Series at the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His talk will highlight new research and dispel misconceptions about the sustainability of beef production.

Frank Mitloehner is the featured speaker at the Henry C. Gardiner Global Food Systems lecture on Oct. 11 at Kansas State University.

CLEAR Center Director Dr. Frank Mitloehner will present “Rethinking Methane: Animal Agriculture’s Path to Climate Neutrality,” beginning at 7 p.m. CDT.

Whether or not you subscribe to the ability of essential oils to ease your stress, lighten your mood or give you a feeling of calm, it’s worth taking a look at how some of them are being used as feed additives that reduce greenhouse gas emissions of cattle. A team at University of California, Davis, under the leadership of Frank Mitloehner, Ph.D., published a paper in October 2020, studying Agolin® Ruminant (AGO) and its ability to do just that. The Mitloehner Lab found an 11 percent reduction in methane intensity.

• GWP* is a new way to help measure the true warming impact of short-lived climate pollutants, such as methane.

• Methane from cattle is not only emitted, it is also destroyed relatively quickly. This means it’s warming impact should be measured differently than that of CO2.

By Pamela Kan-Rice

Professional grazing of overgrown rangelands, pastures and parcels is proven to reduce the spread of dangerous and costly wildfires.

Do you have land but no livestock and feel concerned about fire fuels on your property? Or are you a livestock owner that can provide a grazing service and/or need land and forage for your animals? Match.Graze can help.

DAVIS, Calif., Sept. 2, 2020 – Researchers from the University of California, Davis are rethinking methane and showing that climate neutrality is within reach for the California dairy sector.