Ag Secretary Vilsack and Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow announced eighteen new conservation innovation projects through USDA to support climate-smart agriculture and soil health. The announcement happened during the recent climate meetings in Scotland.
Vilsack says one of those projects involves a study of dairy cattle. “We’re announcing twenty-five million dollars that’s going to fund eighteen different projects, one of which involves the states of Michigan and Wisconsin by taking a look at dairy farm operations and trying to figure out how to reduce methane from those dairy operations.”
Vilsack did not say how much of the 25-million dollars is going towards the cattle methane emissions study.
