Bovaer is a powdered feed supplement that blocks an enzyme involved in methane formation, reducing the amount of methane emitted by each animal. Elanco Animal Health, Inc., is licensing Bovaer for marketing in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Feeding Bovaer to 1 million cows would reduce methane emissions equivalent to removing more than 285,000 cars from the road for a year.” – Elanco officials
In the article linked here, Maureen Hanson examines Bovaer studies and results from other countries ahead of the anticipated Q-4-2024 launch in the U.S.
Source: Dairy Herd Management, June 24, 2024. Link. The founding company dsm-firmenich promotes methane reductions from a daily dose of Bovaer of 30 percent in dairy cows and 45 percent in beef cattle. Numerous internal and independent studies confirmed those figures or higher.
INSIGHTS: The context of comments about cost and payoff are worth considering especially when few dairies infected with HPAI have submitted for funding already approved from the USDA’s Voluntary H5N1 Dairy Herd Status Pilot Program <Link>.