AgNext Offers New Emissions Calculator Tool for Dairy: Feed Addictive Calculator Tool (FACT) for Dairy

Sara Place, Associate Professor of Feedlot Systems at AgNext at Colorado State University has created an open-access tool: the Feed Additive Calculator Tool (FACT) for Dairy. This tool can be utilized by dairy farmers and managers to better understand methane emissions from their operations and explore the tradeoffs between the added expense of a methane reduction technology and their profitability margins. 

The advancement of feed additive technology is moving swiftly and AgNext researchers expect that producers may see methane reduction technology available in the near future. These additives have the potential to reduce enteric methane emissions, but they are likely to create a new input cost for producers. This tool from AgNext can help dairy farmers and dairy managers to best determine how new additives may impact their profit margins, meet animal performance outcomes, and calculate the operation’s methane emissions and reductions overall. 

To learn more about this tool please visit our website and watch this video on how this tool works and what you can learn from it.   

For additional information, please email [email protected] 

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