Podcasts about asparagopsis

The world's leading experts on the seaweed value chain meet in Adelaide for the International Seagriculture Asia Pacific Conference, the Opposition call on the SA Government to allow unused water allocations to be made available for livestock, and Livestock SA surprised and disappointed by the government's plan to rezone farming land around Adelaide for housing.

The new chair of Seaweed producing company Sea Forest says productivity gains will see the company commercialise Asparagopsis.

Calls for continued support for workers impacted by an ongoing tomato virus outbreak in South Australia, a new seaweed ecopark officially been opened at Louth Bay near Port Lincoln, and Australian scientists studying high-tech drones could be used to fight bushfires.

Australian wine exports decline, a new sultana grape variety is released and South Australian farmers protest for better prices.

On today's show, I'll serve up a story about an inter-school handball competition. Then we'll fly south, to learn about world migratory bird day. We'll learn about a new youth centre on the Sunny Coast, before putting on an art smock to paint about our feelings. Quiz Questions What was the trickiest part of organising the handball competition? What is the theme for World Migratory Bird Day this year? Can you name at least one of the activities available at the youth centre? The "Zones of Regulation" are a way of thinking of feelings as what? "Asparagopsis" is a type of red what? Bonus Tricky Question What's the thing in cow farts and burps that builds up in the atmosphere? Answers Agreeing on the rules Water Basketball, Pool, Gym, Chill Out Zone Colours Seaweed Bonus Tricky Answer Methane

Lambs at a sale on the SA/Victorian border yesterday failed to meet a reserve price and were passed in, which agents say they haven't seen in years, a South Australian company turning native seaweed into a methane emissions-reducing cattle supplement is tapping into an international market for the first time, a bill before South Australia's state parliament aims to legislate standards and professional protections for the growing number of mobile veterinary clinics.

Plans are in place to produce more of a methane-reducing seaweed, which could see meat and dairy products become more profitable. Japanese seafood processor. Nissui, is investing in an Australian cultivator of Asparagopsis which, when used as an additive in cattle feed, can suppress emissions by more than 90%. Rural editor Sophie Clarke caught up with Immersion Group chief executive Scott Elliot to hear how the partnership could help bolster premium beef markets in both Australia and Japan.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia to merge joining together the universities combined teaching in agriculture, science and rural health, a Renmark winemaker is heartbroken after his vineyards were flooded when a private levee was breached this week and Mount Gambier resident Liz McKinnon has been named Cross-border Commissioner.

There's a battle going on in the rumen of all cattle over hydrogen. When the methanogens are winning, livestock methane emissions rise, and milk and meat production decrease. When the acetogens win, milk and meat production increase, and methane emissions decline. The best opportunity available to limit the climate impact of our food systems and provide highly nutritious food to the world's population is to resolve this hydrogen war within our cattle and sheep.Professor Sharon Huws is a rumen microbiologist at Queens University Belfast who is leading global research teams working to develop solutions that benefit the climate and farmers. “If you can shift the biochemistry a little so that some of that the hydrogen is shuttled to energy, that will also reduce methanogenesis because there will be less hydrogen available.” Sharon said. Sharon and her team are using Omics technologies to improve their understanding of the rumen microbiome. These are the same technologies that have revolutionised cancer treatments over recent years. The plan is to identify microbes that can act as a hydrogen sink, microbes that capture the available hydrogen before the methanogens. They are then looking at identifying the most effective microbes that could then be made into probiotics or direct fed microbials.   The team is not starting from scratch as nature has given them a head start. There is a lot to learn from termites, wallabies, and kangaroos. They all produce very little methane because they have reductive acetogens that act as a hydrogen sink, capturing the hydrogen and converting it to energy. Methane emissions account for 5-15% of energy consumed by cattle and sheep. Winning the rumen hydrogen war will provide an economic benefit to farmers by increasing productivity and reducing feed costs, at the same time as mitigating the climate impact. This creates the vital win-win for farmers and the climate that is necessary for widespread adoption of new technologies. Sharon is optimistic that her research will provide an additive benefit by improving the performance of other livestock methane reducing technologies such as 3NOP and Asparagopsis. These technologies have shown efficacy reducing methane but do not improve productivity, leading to the conundrum of who is going to pay for them. I recently caught up with Sharon to hear more about her work. You can listen to our conversation here. 

Bio-Design, Seaweed & Nature-Based Solutions: A Conversation with Roger Bason – CEO and Founder of Atlantic Ocean Aquaculture (AOA) The goal of Atlantic Ocean Aquaculture (AOA) is scaling production to reduce Ag sector GHGs in the US and abroad.  CEO, Roger Bason was trained in ocean science at Colgate University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This included a research cruise to the Galapagos Islands and early seabed measurements of the East Pacific Rise. He is a certified Energy Engineer with experience in ocean energy development in the US and internationally that deployed the first US tidal energy system in New York City's East River and an innovative wave energy system in Bermuda in cooperation with the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science. Bason was part of an expert team that initiated coral reef recovery efforts in the Republic of the Marshall Islands using innovative BioRock technology in 2010. He developed and directed the US AmeriCorps program on the Island of Hawaii with a focus on sustainable development including projects in reforestation, aquaculture, solar energy and community food forests. For the past five years Roger has focused on climate action, installing several offshore seaweed farms and wild seaweed harvests in New England. Present work focuses on the harvest of Asparagopsis in Europe, a red seaweed that reduces methane in cattle when used as a feed supplement. Bard MBA's Hung Tran speaks with Roger for this episode of the Impact Report.   ImpactReportPodcast.com

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps energy far more efficiently than carbon dioxide. Reduction of methane emissions is thus essential to slowing climate change, and livestock are a major source of these emissions. Dr. Phil Cardoso talks with Dr. Alex Hristov of Penn State University about nutritional strategies for mitigating production of methane by dairy cattle. They discuss the effectiveness of several different feed additives at reducing methane emissions and their effects on DMI and milk production.PaperCast is also available as an audio podcast!Find us on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dairy-focus-papercast/id1530748959Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/223Pv4qwRcMFyyy3CXdL3rPodcast Addict: https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3098543Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/dairy-focus-papercast-1420022RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1327510.rssLinks to papers and other sources mentioned in this video --------------------------------------------------------------- Hristov et al. 2022. Symposium review: Effective nutritional strategies to mitigate enteric methane in dairy cattle.DOI: 10.3168/jds.2021-21398https://www.journalofdairyscience.org/article/S0022-0302(22)00392-7/fulltextInternational Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/energy/what-we-do/imeoJoint EU-US Statement on the Global Methane Pledge https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_21_5206Hristov et al. 2015, An inhibitor persistently decreased enteric methane emission from dairy cows with no negative effect on milk production.DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1504124112https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.150412411273rd Annual Meeting of EAAP. Porto, Portugal, September 5–9 2022.https://eaap2022.org/docs/Final_Programme_EAAP22.pdf#page=53Arndt et al. 2022, Full adoption of the most effective strategies to mitigate methane emissions by ruminants can help meet the 1.5 °C target by 2030 but not 2050.DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2111294119https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2111294119Duin et al. 2016, Mode of action uncovered for the specific reduction of methane emissions from ruminants by the small molecule 3-nitrooxypropanol.DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1600298113Pitta et al. 2022, The effect of 3-nitrooxypropanol, a potent methane inhibitor, on ruminal microbial gene expression profiles in dairy cows.DOI: 10.1186/s40168-022-01341-9https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-022-01341-9FAO-IPCC Expert Meeting on Climate Change, Land Use and Food Security. Rome, Italy January 23–25 2017.https://www.fao.org/3/i7068e/i7068e.pdfHristov and Melgar 2020, Short communication: Relationship of dry matter intake with enteric methane emission measured with the GreenFeed system in dairy cows receiving a diet without or with 3-nitrooxypropanol.DOI: 10.1017/S1751731120001731https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731120001731?via%3Dihubhttps://globalresearchalliance.org/research/livestock/networks/feed-nutrition-network/Hammond et al. 2016, Review of current in vivo measurement techniques for quantifying enteric methane emission from ruminants.DOI: 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2016.05.018https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0377840116302048Roque et al. 2019, Inclusion of Asparagopsis armata in lactating dairy cows' diet reduces enteric methane emission by over 50 percent.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652619321559DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.06.193Martins et al. 2022, Effects of feeding method and frequency on lactationalperformance and enteric methane emission in dairy cows.https://www.adsa.org/Portals/0/SiteContent/Docs/Meetings/2022ADSA/Abst

Our guest this week is Dr Karl Kruszelnicki AM - but you would know him as Dr Karl. Born to Holocaust surviving parents, he is known for his wacky shirts and insatiable curiosity, and he has been Australia's best known science communicator for decades, igniting scientific interest in people of all ages. He is the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow in the Science Foundation for Physics at the University of Sydney. He was named a National Living Treasure, listed as the 9th most trusted person in Australia, and has an asteroid belt named after him to name but a few achievements. His most recent book, and all his others - Dr Karl's Little Book of Climate Change Science Drilled podcast - the true story of fossil fuels misinformation Asparagopsis - cattle feed supplement to reduce methane Project Drawdown - is the world's leading resource for climate solutions. This website is packed with reliable information, and there is a book which makes a great addition to any coffee table or Shabbat afternoon read. We highly recommend it! Beyond Zero Emissions - the Million Jobs Plan

Die Forschung zog sich über etliche Jahre, doch jetzt können Landwirte weltweit Asparagopsis als Futterzusatz für Kühe und Schafe kaufen. Die vor Australiens Küsten vorkommenden Algen sollen die Methanemissionen der Wiederkäuer um 90 bis 95 Prozent reduzieren. Meine Kollegin Barbara Barkhausen hat sich mit dem neuen Angebot beschäftigt, das im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel helfen könnte. Sie hat mit meinem Kollegen Wolfgang Müller gesprochen.

Treibhausgase bedrohen massiv unser Klima - dabei denken wir häufig an Langstreckenflüge, Transporte von Waren rund um die Welt und fossile Energien. Aber auch auf dem Teller geht es sehr viel um die Klimakrise. Unsere Ernährung trägt einen bedeutenden Teil zum Ausstoß von klimaschädlichen Gasen bei - insbesondere der Konsum von Fleisch. Autorin Yasmin Appelhans hat die Spur des Fleisches verfolgt und sich die Prozesse und Emissionen der Nahrungsmittelindustrie genauer angesehen. Im Gespräch mit Host Maja Bahtijarević geht es zum Beispiel um die Fragen, welchen Einfluss genau unser Fleischkonsum auf das Klima hat und wo genau während der Produktion von Fleisch die meisten Schadstoffe ausgestoßen werden. Außerdem fragen wir uns: Was wäre, wenn plötzlich alle Menschen auf Fleisch verzichten würden? Und was hat die Gestaltung von Speisekarten damit zu tun? Die Hintergrundinformationen • Grafik zu Treibhausgasausstoß verschiedener Lebensmittel | Our World in Data: Food: greenhous gas emissions across the supply chain, https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-emissions-supply-chain?country=Beef+%28beef+herd%29~Cheese~Poultry+Meat~Milk~Eggs~Rice~Pig+Meat~Peas~Bananas~Wheat+%26+Rye~Fish+%28farmed%29~Lamb+%26+Mutton~Beef+%28dairy+herd%29~Shrimps+%28farmed%29~Tofu~Maize~Coffee~Other+Pulses~Citrus+Fruit~Other+Fruit~Sunflower+Oil~Apples~Brassicas~Olive+Oil~Potatoes~Palm+Oil~Barley~Soybean+Oil~Wine~Root+Vegetables~Dark+Chocolate~Cane+Sugar~Nuts~Tomatoes~Rapeseed+Oil~Groundnuts • Originalpublikation zur Grafik zum Treibhausausstoß verschiedener Lebensmittel | Poore & Nemecek (2018): Reducing food's environmental impacts through producers and consumers, erschienen bei Science https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaq0216 • Informationen über verschiedene Treibhausgase | Umweltbundesamt: Die Treibhausgase https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/klima-energie/klimaschutz-energiepolitik-in-deutschland/treibhausgas-emissionen/die-treibhausgase • Soja als gesundes Lebensmittel | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: Straight talk about soy, https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/soy/ • Treibhaussausstoß pro Kopf in Deutschland mit Link zu Rechner von Fußabdruck | Umweltbundesamt: Wie hoch sind die Treibhausgasemissionen pro Person in Deutschland durchschnittlich?, https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/service/uba-fragen/wie-hoch-sind-die-treibhausgasemissionen-pro-person • Treibhausgasausstoß pro Kopf in Deutschland nach verschiedenen Konsumbereichen | Umweltbundesamt: Treibhausgas-Ausstoß pro Kopf in Deutschland nach Konsumbereichen (2017), https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/bild/treibhausgas-ausstoss-pro-kopf-in-deutschland-nach • Endbericht der Arbeitsgruppe III des Weltklimarates IPCC | International Panel on Climate Change IPCC (2022): IPCC Sixth Assesment Report - Mitigation of Climate Change https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/ • Übersichtsstudie zum Fleischkonsum und Nachhaltigkeit, insbesondere mit Fokus auf verschiedene Weltregionen und deren Fleischkonsum | Parlasca & Qaim (2022): Meat Consumption and Sustainability, erschienen bei Annual Reviews https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-resource-111820-032340 • Klimafreundliche Ernährung mit reduziertem Anteil an tierischen Produkten | Mazac et al. (2022): Incorporation of novel foods in European diets can reduce global warming potential, water use and land use by over 80%, erschienen bei Nature Food https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00489-9 • Gentechnisch veränderte Pflanzen können helfen, Treibhausgase zu reduzieren | Kovak et al. (2022): Genetically modified crops support climate change mitigation, erschienen bei Trends in Plant Science https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138522000048 • Rotalgen reduzieren Methanausstoß von Rindern | Roque et al. (2021): Red seaweed (Asparagopsis taxiformis) supplementation reduces enteric methane by over 80 percent in beef steers, erschienen bei PLOS ONE https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247820 • EU-Importe von Lebensmitteln sind gefährdet | Ercin et al. (2021): Cross-border climate vulnerabilities of the European Union to drought https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23584-0 • Liste mit Nahrungsmittel der Zukunft der Kew Royal Botanical Gardens | Kew Royal Botanical Gardens: Foods of the future https://www.kew.org/about-us/press-media/future-foods • Endbericht der Zukunftskommission Landwirtschaft | Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (2021): Zukunft Landwirtschaft. Eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Aufgabe - Empfehlungen der Zukunftskommission Landwirtschaft https://www.bmel.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Broschueren/abschlussbericht-zukunftskommission-landwirtschaft.html Podcast-Tipp: Als Kind gedopt https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/als-kind-gedopt/10745159/

Treibhausgase bedrohen massiv unser Klima - dabei denken wir häufig an Langstreckenflüge, Transporte von Waren rund um die Welt und fossile Energien. Aber auch auf dem Teller geht es sehr viel um die Klimakrise. Unsere Ernährung trägt einen bedeutenden Teil zum Ausstoß von klimaschädlichen Gasen bei - insbesondere der Konsum von Fleisch. Autorin Yasmin Appelhans hat die Spur des Fleisches verfolgt und sich die Prozesse und Emissionen der Nahrungsmittelindustrie genauer angesehen. Im Gespräch mit Host Maja Bahtijarević geht es zum Beispiel um die Fragen, welchen Einfluss genau unser Fleischkonsum auf das Klima hat und wo genau während der Produktion von Fleisch die meisten Schadstoffe ausgestoßen werden. Außerdem fragen wir uns: Was wäre, wenn plötzlich alle Menschen auf Fleisch verzichten würden? Und was hat die Gestaltung von Speisekarten damit zu tun? Die Hintergrundinformationen • Grafik zu Treibhausgasausstoß verschiedener Lebensmittel | Our World in Data: Food: greenhous gas emissions across the supply chain, https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-emissions-supply-chain?country=Beef+%28beef+herd%29~Cheese~Poultry+Meat~Milk~Eggs~Rice~Pig+Meat~Peas~Bananas~Wheat+%26+Rye~Fish+%28farmed%29~Lamb+%26+Mutton~Beef+%28dairy+herd%29~Shrimps+%28farmed%29~Tofu~Maize~Coffee~Other+Pulses~Citrus+Fruit~Other+Fruit~Sunflower+Oil~Apples~Brassicas~Olive+Oil~Potatoes~Palm+Oil~Barley~Soybean+Oil~Wine~Root+Vegetables~Dark+Chocolate~Cane+Sugar~Nuts~Tomatoes~Rapeseed+Oil~Groundnuts • Originalpublikation zur Grafik zum Treibhausausstoß verschiedener Lebensmittel | Poore & Nemecek (2018): Reducing food's environmental impacts through producers and consumers, erschienen bei Science https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaq0216 • Informationen über verschiedene Treibhausgase | Umweltbundesamt: Die Treibhausgase https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/klima-energie/klimaschutz-energiepolitik-in-deutschland/treibhausgas-emissionen/die-treibhausgase • Soja als gesundes Lebensmittel | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: Straight talk about soy, https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/soy/ • Treibhaussausstoß pro Kopf in Deutschland mit Link zu Rechner von Fußabdruck | Umweltbundesamt: Wie hoch sind die Treibhausgasemissionen pro Person in Deutschland durchschnittlich?, https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/service/uba-fragen/wie-hoch-sind-die-treibhausgasemissionen-pro-person • Treibhausgasausstoß pro Kopf in Deutschland nach verschiedenen Konsumbereichen | Umweltbundesamt: Treibhausgas-Ausstoß pro Kopf in Deutschland nach Konsumbereichen (2017), https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/bild/treibhausgas-ausstoss-pro-kopf-in-deutschland-nach • Endbericht der Arbeitsgruppe III des Weltklimarates IPCC | International Panel on Climate Change IPCC (2022): IPCC Sixth Assesment Report - Mitigation of Climate Change https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/ • Übersichtsstudie zum Fleischkonsum und Nachhaltigkeit, insbesondere mit Fokus auf verschiedene Weltregionen und deren Fleischkonsum | Parlasca & Qaim (2022): Meat Consumption and Sustainability, erschienen bei Annual Reviews https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-resource-111820-032340 • Klimafreundliche Ernährung mit reduziertem Anteil an tierischen Produkten | Mazac et al. (2022): Incorporation of novel foods in European diets can reduce global warming potential, water use and land use by over 80%, erschienen bei Nature Food https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00489-9 • Gentechnisch veränderte Pflanzen können helfen, Treibhausgase zu reduzieren | Kovak et al. (2022): Genetically modified crops support climate change mitigation, erschienen bei Trends in Plant Science https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138522000048 • Rotalgen reduzieren Methanausstoß von Rindern | Roque et al. (2021): Red seaweed (Asparagopsis taxiformis) supplementation reduces enteric methane by over 80 percent in beef steers, erschienen bei PLOS ONE https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247820 • EU-Importe von Lebensmitteln sind gefährdet | Ercin et al. (2021): Cross-border climate vulnerabilities of the European Union to drought https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23584-0 • Liste mit Nahrungsmittel der Zukunft der Kew Royal Botanical Gardens | Kew Royal Botanical Gardens: Foods of the future https://www.kew.org/about-us/press-media/future-foods • Endbericht der Zukunftskommission Landwirtschaft | Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (2021): Zukunft Landwirtschaft. Eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Aufgabe - Empfehlungen der Zukunftskommission Landwirtschaft https://www.bmel.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Broschueren/abschlussbericht-zukunftskommission-landwirtschaft.html Podcast-Tipp: Als Kind gedopt https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/als-kind-gedopt/10745159/

River Murray flows into South Australia reach 53GL a day, a South Australian aquaculture company says seaweed production could become a mainstay of its business and a South East brewer and barley grower says the Limestone Coast could be the first region to emulate the wine industry and link terroir to its beverages.

It's been a pleasure to have a guest comeback to the show with Steve Meller of www.ch4global.com.  In this episode, we talked about CH4's mission "To meaningfully impact climate change at scale today, by harnessing the power of Asparagopsis seaweed to reduce methane from cows and making it easy for farmers to adopt." CH4 Global™, Inc. is on an urgent mission to address climate change by providing our seaweed-based Asparagopsis products to farmers worldwide so they can dramatically reduce the methane emissions of their livestock and realize significant value in the process. Founded in 2018, CH4 Global was the first company to obtain an IP license based on the original scientific research that proves the remarkable methane-mitigating benefits of Asparagopsis seaweed. Leveraging their deep expertise in product development and commercialization, they focus on bringing to market high-potency, customized formulations of Asparagopsis products for ruminant animal consumption, as well as an advanced technology ecosystem for hatching, growing, processing, and drying the seaweed. 

David Lawson, CTO of CH4 Global, joins us on today's show to discuss Asparagopsis seaweed and how it relates to cow burps and methane emissions.

David Lawson, CTO of CH4 Global, joins us on today's show to discuss Asparagopsis seaweed and how it relates to cow burps and methane emissions.

We had the pleasure of sitting down with Sam Elsom, CEO and Founder of Seaforest, in front of a live audience in the Soma Dome. Sam is an outstanding individual devoted to mass cultivating a very old solution to climate change: seaweed. Asparagopsis, a native seaweed that can reduce livestock methane emission by up to 90%, is at the heart of what Seaforest does. Through cutting-edge science, manufacturing and supply-change management, the company is making a real and measurable difference in the fight against climate change. Get ready to be amazed by Sam and his incredible journey! Tune in to learn more about his groundbreaking work.

Countrywide takes you outside the cities into regional Australia, talking about the food you eat

Inflows from the Diamantina and more expected from the Cooper Creek in coming weeks has delivered a tourism boom for northern South Australia, after years of research, the methane-busting seaweed is now for sale to cattle feedlots in Australia and a fire at a major wool processing plant in China, is not to blame for the big fall in prices at this week's wool sales.

Demand for a local seaweed-based biostimulants jumped 200 percent this autumn compared to the same time last year, partly driven by price hikes for synthetic fertilisers, as the war in Ukraine affects global supplies. AgriSea has been making biostimulant products for 25 years, and says demand is also growing as farmers become more conscious of where farm inputs come from. AgriSea collects seaweed from remote shores of coastal New Zealand and brews the harvest into a nutrient-rich concentrate at a factory in Paeroa. The company is also developing a seaweed farm in the Hauraki Gulf. The final product is a bio-stimulant, which enables farms and orchards to improve outcomes for soil, pasture, plant and animal health. Seaweed is a burgeoning sector in New Zealand, and globally, the seaweed sector is estimated to be worth more than $20 billion. Kathryn speaks to the chief executive of AgriSea, Clare Bradley about the industry. She also speaks with Fonterra's Chief Science and Technology Officer, Jeremy Hill, initiatives Fonterra is exploring to reduce greenhouse gases, including trialling a supplement for cattle containing Asparagopsis seaweed.

Dairy company Fonterra is expanding its trial of feeding a seaweed product to dairy cattle to reduce methane emissions, and Fonterra says they're happy with a trial so far on one Tasmanian dairy farm using Asparagopsis grown by Sea Forrest

Imagine you're Larry the cow and you're uncontrollably burping methane into the atmosphere each day. It's not your fault, its all the good bacteria in your microbiome just doing their thing. But what if eating just 50g of a little red seaweed could change all that? This week Heidi and Bella speak with Dr Javed Khan, the Aquaculture Manager for CH4 in New Zealand to learn all about Asparagopsis aramata, the little red seaweed making a big difference. CH4's goal is for agriculture to have zero methane emissions.You'll learn:What is Asparagopsis?How can it stop the production of methane in ruminant animals? What is a ruminant animal?More fun facts about sea cucumbers (Bella tries to talk about them every chance she gets)Thanks so much for joining us Javed, we can't wait to dive with you in NZ soon!Useful links:Learn more about CH4 GlobalLinks to many more articles on methane reduction using seaweedA video all about CH4's journey and missionLearn more about the global exploitation of sea cucumbersSupport the show (https://www.patron.com/lifeonplanetapodcast)

LINKS buymeacoffee.com/changeug The ChangeUnderground Academy No-Dig Gardening Course: https://worldorganicnews.com/changeunderground/ FREE eBook: https://worldorganicnews.com/freeebook/ email: jon@worldorganicnews.com Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1546564598887681 Transcript https://worldorganicnews.com/episode287/ Victoria's first seaweed farm aims to reduce livestock emissions https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-02-12/seaweed-to-reduce-cow-methane-emissions-port-phillip/100819694 Asparagopsis feedlot feeding trial https://www.mla.com.au/research-and-development/reports/2020/asparagopsis-feedlot-feeding-trial/ SOUTHERN OCEAN CARBON COMPANY https://southernoceancarbon.com/ Native grains harvest brings culture, food, and regenerative farming together https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-13/narrabri-plant-breeding-institute-native-grains-harvest/100819478 Were Indigenous Australians the world's first bakers? https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2016/10/06/were-indigenous-australians-worlds-first-bakers Dark Emu https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Dark-Emu-Audiobook/B01NCU4H04?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp&shareTest=TestShare Perennial Wheat https://landinstitute.org/our-work/perennial-crops/perennial-wheat/

Steve Meller is the CEO and Founder of CH4 Global, a corporation with a mission to create a global aquaculture ecosystem, for Asparagopsis seaweed, to slash methane emissions from ruminant livestock and positively impact climate change. Check out: https://www.ch4global.com/ 

Fact Check My Feed: More Kids Can Get COVID-19 Vaccines. Now What? Many parents around the U.S. breathed a sigh of relief—or an even more intense emotional reaction—at the long-awaited news that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had signed off on advising the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 this week. The recommendation came after a unanimous vote from the agency's committee of outside vaccine experts. And last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the shot after a review of clinical trial data found both low risk and high efficacy in a smaller, kid-calibrated dose of the vaccine. University of Saskatchewan virologist Angela Rasmussen joins Ira to look at the data behind the FDA's long-anticipated decision. They also discuss the rationale behind booster shots for high-risk adults, what it means that deer in Iowa have been caught transmitting the virus, COVID-pragmatic holiday planning, and other pandemic news.   In First Real-World Experiment, Red Seaweed Cuts Methane In Cows By More Than Half Methane emissions are a hot topic—largely because it's a big contributor to climate change. Methane makes up about 10% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. 27% of that comes from the burps of ruminant animals, such as cows. In April, Science Friday did a story about research that showed promising results when steers were fed small amounts of the red algae Asparagopsis in their diets. At the time, these experiments were only done in a closely controlled university setting. Now, the first real-world study on a working dairy farm has been completed. The results? Methane released by the seaweed-eating cows was 52% less on average than their non-seaweed-munching counterparts. Coming on the heels of the Biden administration's methane emissions reduction plan, SciFri producer Kathleen Davis sits down with three key players in this milestone: Joan Salwen, CEO of Blue Ocean Barns in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, the company that produces the Asparagopsis seaweed powder; Dr. Breanna Roque, animal science consultant at Blue Ocean Barns in Townsville, Queensland, Australia; and Albert Straus, founder and CEO of Straus Family Creamery in Marshall, California.   The Science Friday Theme Song That Got Lost In The Mail Back in 1998, comedian and author Steve Allen, first host of The Tonight Show, joined Ira on Science Friday to talk about the importance of critical thinking. Allen had written a book called Dumbth, calling for improvements in the public's logical reasoning abilities. Ira was a longtime fan of Allen's, and eagerly invited him to discuss the book. During the interview, Allen also took to the studio piano to play his signature song, “This Could Be The Start of Something Big.” As the comedian was leaving, Ira jokingly remarked that Science Friday could use a theme song of its own. Several years later, while cleaning the cluttered SciFri office, staff uncovered an unopened box of mail—including an envelope from Hollywood containing a single cassette tape, marked “Theme Song For Science Friday—Steve Allen.” As part of Science Friday's 30th anniversary celebrations, Ira and SciFri director Charles Bergquist recount the story of the tape, and finally premiere the song, written and performed by the late Steve Allen.      

This episode we're grateful and delighted to have Steve Meller who is the CEO of CH4 Global Inc.  He is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, innovator, founder and board advisor after a successful career in corporate and academia. CH4's mission is to meaningfully impact climate change at scale today, by harnessing the power of Asparagopsis seaweed to reduce methane from cows and making it easy for farmers to adopt.

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The niche Tasmanian seaweed industry has received a massive boost with an injection of more than $30 million in investment funds.

This week’s episode discusses the impact of animal agriculture on the environment, what a plant-only agriculture system would look like, and some strategies for reducing methane emissions by cattle. Here are the papers I discuss in this episode: Nutritional and greenhouse gas impacts of removing animals from US agriculture Inclusion of Asparagopsis armata in lactating … Continue reading "Animal Agriculture & the Environment"

This week’s episode discusses the impact of animal agriculture on the environment, what a plant-only agriculture system would look like, and some strategies for reducing methane emissions by cattle. Here are the papers I discuss in this episode: Nutritional and greenhouse gas impacts of removing animals from US agriculture Inclusion of Asparagopsis armata in lactating … Continue reading "Animal Agriculture & the Environment"

"Burping Cows and Asparagopsis"