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Mitigation of greenhouse gases in dairy cattle via genetic selection: 2. Incorporating methane emissions into the breeding goal.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Aug 2020
González-Recio O, López-Paredes J, Ouatahar L, Charfeddine N, Ugarte E, Alenda R, Jiménez-Montero J A
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The objective of this study was to analyze the impact of incorporating enteric methane into the breeding objective of dairy cattle in Spain, and to evaluate both genetic and economic response of traits in the selection index under 4 scenarios: (1) the current ICO (Spanish total merit index), used as benchmark; (2) a hypothetical penalization of methane emissions through a carbon tax; (3) considering methane as a...
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