{"id":6986,"date":"2016-04-22T13:47:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6986"},"modified":"2019-03-20T14:07:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:07:28","slug":"saving-the-planet-one-cow-burp-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/saving-the-planet-one-cow-burp-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving the planet, one cow burp at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6987 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ABY60027-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"ABY60027\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ABY60027-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ABY60027-624x434.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ABY60027.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThe belching inside Penn State University&#8217;s research dairy barn is constant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They burp gas all the time,&#8221; says animal science professor Alex Hristov, of his herd of 60 black and white Holstein cows.<\/p>\n<p>For a place with so much burping, though, it&#8217;s eerily quiet, with just an occasional deep moo from a resident or two. The cows are happily corralled in two long rows of stalls, each animal with a yellow tag on her ear. More than a few are munching on feed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They milk about 100 pounds of milk a day,&#8221; says Hristov, proudly, with a Bulgarian accent. &#8220;They eat a lot, so they&#8217;re good cows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All that eating, of course, is responsible for the round-the-clock burping. And even though cow belches, or eructations, are silent, that doesn&#8217;t mean they go unnoticed here. Because the breaths contain methane, the scientists are keenly interested in finding a way to prevent them.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsworks.org\/index.php\/health-science\/item\/92909-saving-the-planet-one-cow-burp-at-a-time\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like carbon dioxide, methane is a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. It doesn&#8217;t last as long as in the atmosphere, but over a century, it traps heat 25 times better than its better-known cousin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[336,337,166,335,338],"class_list":["post-6986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry","category-watching","tag-carbon-dioxide","tag-climate-change","tag-livestock","tag-methane","tag-penn-state-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8200,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions\/8200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}