Belching (burping) cows give off much of the methane, a greenhouse gas, from raising farm animals. Now researchers are investigating a way to reduce the greenhouse gas that is burped by cows.
In one study, scientists fed a group of dairy calves (which are cows that produce milk) a methane-blocker chemical. Sensors at feeding stations measured methane in the cows’ gas while the animals were nearby. That allowed the team of researchers to estimate the methane being belched (burped) out each day.

Over their first year of life, the treated cows, which received the methane-blocker chemical, released about ten percent less methane than the group of cows not given the chemical.

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