Agricultural and food ingredient company Cargill provided USD 1 million in grant funding to Colorado State University and its AgNext program to research cattle methane reductions.

The funding will be used to study enteric methane emissions from feedlot cattle and explore the impact of different ingredients and additives in cattle diets. The studies will be conducted at Colorado State University's Climate Smart Research Facility over the next two years.

Current USDA guidelines rely on assumptions about feeding strategies' effects on methane emissions. This research aims to collect empirical data to validate these assumptions and determine if additional methane reduction is possible through various feed combinations.

Analyst QuickTake: Reducing agricultural emissions has become a key focus for livestock biotech companies to increase sustainability in the sector. Recent notable initiatives include Ajinomoto and Danone's partnership to develop GHG emission-reducing feed supplements and Denmark's USD 2.1 billion investment into R&D efforts for livestock emission reduction.