Use of corn distillers' dried grains to reduce enteric methane loss from beef cattle;Utilisation de drèches sèches de distillerie de maïs pour réduire les dégagements entériques de méthane des bovins de boucherie

Canadian Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 409-413

  McGinn, S M ^a   Chung, Y H ^a   Beauchemin, K A ^a   Iwaasa, A D ^a   Grainger, C ^b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beef cattle; Corn distillers' dried grains with solubles; Greenhouse gas emissions; Lipid; Methane; Sulphur hexafluoride

Indexed keywords

BOS; BOVIDAE; HORDEUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 69749125663     PISSN: 00083984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/CJAS08133     Document Type: Article

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