Conference Considers Clean Cow Technology

Cows emit methane gas and a global conference convened to discuss how greenhouse gases can be reduced will hear, among other ideas, that it may be time for governments to develop a clean cow technology.

Methane emissions from livestock are considered to be one source of greenhouse gases. A conference being attended by scientists from around the globe will hear, among other ideas, that it may be time to implement a clean strategy. The idea is that governments need to treat cows as they do coal, and develop a new way to approach the industry. "Agriculture has really just got on to this," Dr Roger Hegarty, from the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, said. He adds: "It's been a new issue - we've only been tackling it for a couple of years. "I've really got no doubt at all that if we started to put the same sort of money into clean cow technology that we've seen go into clean coal technology, that agriculture and the livestock industries in particular would really have those clean cow technologies humming."