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From the Australian. $700 million to make cows fart less and reduce CO2 emissions. Where are the men with the white coats?


"AUSTRALIA'S 8500 dairy farmers may soon be receiving cheques from the government for making their cows burp and fart less.

Under the $700 million-plus national Carbon Farming Initiative, farmers will be encouraged to feed fats and oils such as canola meal and brewers' grain waste to their 1.7 million milking cows for three months to supplement summer grass, reducing the amount of methane gas each cow emits by 20 per cent.

Digestive emissions from livestock cause more than two-thirds (68 per cent) of the total greenhouse gases created by agriculture, which overall contributes 20 per cent of Australia's harmful emissions."