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2023: Climate-controlled Cattle Respiration Chambers
Climate-controlled animal respiration stalls (the first in the U.S.) will allow researchers to definitively measure, verify, and monitor methane and other gas emissions from cows – information that will support a slate of investigations aimed at improving the sustainability and productivity of farms around the world. The chambers monitor oxygen consumption and methane, CO2, and hydrogen emissions in real time. Researchers may put individual cows in a chamber in order to get an absolute measure of gases consumed and produced.
Cornell Investigator: Joe McFadden (CALS/Animal Science)
Supported by: Cargill, Genesee Valley Regional Market Authority, Balchem Corporation, New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets