New Zealand to tax farmers for cow farts?

[Sedgehammer]

I've had seaweed myself, once. Not again

With cows and today's total mixed rations, you can almost feed them anything, but it reduces intake if there's enough and they don't like it

As too what Southside mentioned, that'll never be figured in and it's total bs to begin with. Climate has been changing for eons. There's proof it's warmed faster and hotter long before they're were SUVs and dairy farms

[Ron Wenrich]

Just remember, first the cows, the next will be you.  They'll ban chili, beer and onion rings. 

[Don P]

Whose cows have upset tummies?

With cows and today's total mixed rations, you can almost feed them anything, but it reduces intake if there's enough and they don't like it

I dunno, is stuff that hard to figure out

[Sedgehammer]

@Don P actually can be. Small differences are hard to tell due to do many variables. Big changes, sure. We had one of the highest producing herds in the world. I did it for years

[Ianab]

Small differences are hard to tell due to do many variables. Big changes, sure. We had one of the highest producing herds in the world. I did it for years

For sure. Also, if a cow is burping excess methane that suggests it's not digesting it's food as efficiently as possible, and is leaving production to waft away. 
Ironically NZ currently has a CO2 shortage   
The local oil refinery used to produce industrial / food grade CO2 as a byproduct of refining crude, but that's been shut down. The other supplier was the local natural gas field, but they had a breakdown with the processing plant. Then you find out how many commercial operations actually used CO2. Worst hit was the smaller breweries and taverns that need CO2 to produce and serve beer. Ironically brewing beer produces a lot of CO2, but unless you have a very expensive machine to capture it, it just blows away. Large commercial breweries have the equipment to capture and reuse it already, but it's expensive for a small operation. 
https://www.beerandbrewer.com/kiwi-brewery-harnesses-carbon-capture-technology/

[Sedgehammer]

Not necessarily. The rumen is an extremely complex and delicate food processing machine. Remove one thing or add 1 thing and it can throw that all out of balance. That small change can cause the cows stomach to actually flip/twist requiring surgery to unflip

Yeah, how ironic. Shows how intertwined things are/can be

This all is a bunch to do about nothing. It's just someone to be in control of someone else

[Tom King]

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[Peter Drouin]

I read this. and think it's one of the dumbest things . In the top 5 for sure.