From kangaroo vaccines to biogas production, agriculture is countering criticisms that it is a major greenhouse gas producer with a series of practical solutions
by NORMAN DUNN
Farming’s carbon footprint has caught the public’s attention in Europe with meat and milk producers finding it especially hard to win acceptance for new major projects.
The main reason is a rash of media “revelations” that have shifted the main responsibility for global warming and atmospheric pollution away from excessive use of hydrocarbons onto methane from belching cows and ammonia from swine.