Researchers are working with farmers across England and Wales in a bid to make a 'huge difference' by reducing methane production and feed costs for dairy cattle.
Daffodils could provide the key to more sustainable livestock farming, according to scientists who say lab tests have proven promising.
Adding an extract from the flowers to livestock feed reduced methane in artificial cow stomachs by 96%. A team of researchers at Scotland's Rural College hope that when trialled in real cows, it could reduce methane emissions by at least 30%.On his farm in Powys, Kevin Stephens breeds cattle and grows daffodils.He has been part of the team developing the science behind the new animal feed.
"We started growing daffodils originally to produce an Alzheimer's drug, but we discovered that the daffodils also produce a compound that prevents ruminants from producing methane," he said.
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