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So, what do we do? By researching how to improve animal management techniques like biosecurity, animal feed, and vaccines to treat livestock when needed, we can reduce the use of antimicrobials in the first place, because healthy animals 🐖 = healthy humans 👥. 3/

Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria can also affect human health by reducing the effectiveness of medicine that humans use, too. 💊 2/

What We're Measuring:

✅Methane output changes
✅Rumen microbiome response
✅Practical applications for grazing systems

This research could transform how we approach climate-smart agriculture in grazing systems worldwide. 🌱 4/4

Using a GreenFeed system, we collect real-time methane data every time an animal enters the unit. This gives us insight into how emissions shift over time and what these patterns mean for scaling sustainable agriculture across large grazing systems. 3/

In this study, we're testing how a specialized bolus can influence rumen microbes responsible for methane production in cattle. Unlike daily feed additives, this bolus works continuously inside the animal which makes it unique for grazing operations where daily supplementation isn't practical. 2/

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But this work doesn't happen because of one person. It takes a dedicated team including faculty, staff and interns. With PhD student, Sharissa Anderson at the helm, our team is hard at work looking into the effects of a single bolus and its potential on lowering the climate impact of beef cattle.

Find us in the Grand Ballroom when the tradeshow opens at 12 pm and in case you missed it — we’re co-hosting a media training at 12:30pm today! Grand Ballroom 2 & 3.

Join our Associate Director for Communications, Joe Proudman and Senior Content Writer and Media Strategist, Tracy Sellers in the Grand Ballroom 2 & 3 at 12:30-2pm. See you then! 3/3

Tomorrow's media training will help ranchers find their voice, build confidence on camera, and share how their work as environmental stewards makes them true climate champions. If you've been waiting for the right moment to speak up for your operation and your industry -- this is it. 2/

We're excited to share more as this project progresses. Stay tuned.

At the UC Davis CLEAR Center, PhD student, Sharissa Anderson is leading this early-life intervention study to see how one small bolus can make a big difference. Her work shows that even small changes early in life can have a lasting impact on livestock sustainability.

This slow-release bolus sits in a calf's rumen (first chamber of its stomach) & gradually releases an active ingredient that can potentially impact ruminal environment where methane is formed. By giving this bolus shortly after birth, we can potentially lower an individual animal's methane output.