ruminant

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California, Wisconsin and Iowa are the top goat dairy states, but the popular and curious ruminants are increasingly turning up in other states.

From Seattle Times

“Thanks to their voracious appetites-goats can eat up to 10 pounds of vegetation per day-and ability to navigate difficult terrain, the ravenous ruminants are on the front lines of fire prevention.”

From Washington Times

These include restoring carbon-absorbing peatlands, reducing methane emissions from cattle and other ruminants, and increasing the productivity of existing farmland to discourage deforestation.

From Seattle Times

Meanwhile, a farm science research institute in New Zealand, AgResearch, hopes to target methane production at its source by eliminating methanogens, the microbes thought to be responsible for producing the greenhouse gas in ruminants.

From Salon

“People may joke, but cows and other ruminants burp as much methane as the oil and gas industry,” says Earth-systems researcher Robert Jackson.

From Nature