farmerjan
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Well, @SageHill .... I have not done alot of studying on it. There has been talk... No dairies in this area are using it that I have heard of.
No where can I find out EXACTLY what it is... just an enzyme reducer so that the gases in the fermentation process do not combine to form methane.
There may have been a whole lot of studies done in dairies in Holland... and how much it is saving in methane reduction... but unless a dairy is totally closed in... like a farm that is under a closed super dome.... how can they actually be so "positive" about the reduced methane and how is it measured...
Personally, I would have to do some serious digging, and even to go to some kind of forum talks, things like that for dairies to find out about it... in order to better understand WHAT it is exactly... How it is made... and what effects it could have long term on cows.
I get tired of cows getting blamed for all this "greenhouse gas, climate warming" that they keep going on about... without taking into consideration all the mechanical advancements, over the years.
There could be something to it... but there are alot of things that might be contributing besides "cow BURPS". I think is part and parcel of the whole "decrease animals, and go to more plant based diet"....
But until I know more about it, and can actually find out WHAT actually makes up the ingredients that goes into it.
One thing I can find... one report says that a dose of 1/4 teaspoon per cow per day... another report is saying more along the line of 1 tbsp.... per cow per day.... One report says it will cost a couple pennies per gallon... so to break that down... Let's say $.03 per gallon... that's 8.4 lbs milk to a gallon...
to put that in round figures... milk is bought by dairy co-ops...... by 100 lbs... about 12 gallons per 100 lbs.
So, that is about $.36/100lbs of milk cost... Say a farmer is shipping 10,000 lbs every other day... That's a cost of $36/ per tank shipped... 15 tanks shipped a month...That's over $500 a month cost to the farmer... say he is milking 100 cows..... that is $5 per cow per month cost..... Yet they say it could generate over $20 per cow "income", per year... So that means you will be spending another $60 per year to make back $20.
Somehow that means it is going to be costing you ANOTHER $40 per cow per year... and you MIGHT get some "methane credits"... another one of those climate change controlled thing that can affect your ability to farm, to borrow money, all that sort of stuff....
I have little to no faith in the UN....like the WHO and some of those other "Health" organizations that told us how BAD covid was....
No where can I find out EXACTLY what it is... just an enzyme reducer so that the gases in the fermentation process do not combine to form methane.
There may have been a whole lot of studies done in dairies in Holland... and how much it is saving in methane reduction... but unless a dairy is totally closed in... like a farm that is under a closed super dome.... how can they actually be so "positive" about the reduced methane and how is it measured...
Personally, I would have to do some serious digging, and even to go to some kind of forum talks, things like that for dairies to find out about it... in order to better understand WHAT it is exactly... How it is made... and what effects it could have long term on cows.
I get tired of cows getting blamed for all this "greenhouse gas, climate warming" that they keep going on about... without taking into consideration all the mechanical advancements, over the years.
There could be something to it... but there are alot of things that might be contributing besides "cow BURPS". I think is part and parcel of the whole "decrease animals, and go to more plant based diet"....
But until I know more about it, and can actually find out WHAT actually makes up the ingredients that goes into it.
One thing I can find... one report says that a dose of 1/4 teaspoon per cow per day... another report is saying more along the line of 1 tbsp.... per cow per day.... One report says it will cost a couple pennies per gallon... so to break that down... Let's say $.03 per gallon... that's 8.4 lbs milk to a gallon...
to put that in round figures... milk is bought by dairy co-ops...... by 100 lbs... about 12 gallons per 100 lbs.
So, that is about $.36/100lbs of milk cost... Say a farmer is shipping 10,000 lbs every other day... That's a cost of $36/ per tank shipped... 15 tanks shipped a month...That's over $500 a month cost to the farmer... say he is milking 100 cows..... that is $5 per cow per month cost..... Yet they say it could generate over $20 per cow "income", per year... So that means you will be spending another $60 per year to make back $20.
Somehow that means it is going to be costing you ANOTHER $40 per cow per year... and you MIGHT get some "methane credits"... another one of those climate change controlled thing that can affect your ability to farm, to borrow money, all that sort of stuff....
I have little to no faith in the UN....like the WHO and some of those other "Health" organizations that told us how BAD covid was....
I should move to the top of the list for today.
