GreenFeedSystem studies correlation between cattle feed consumption and greenhouse gas emissions
LETHBRIDGE, AB – Exhibition Park is filled to the brim with vendors and agriculture enthusiasts for the 2019 Ag Expo.
The Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Lethbridge Research and Development Centre has a booth set up. On display is the GreenFeedSystem, a creation from South Dakota-based C-Lock Inc.
“The GreenFeedSystem is basically a feeder, so there’s pellets (fed through) on the top and it recognizes an RFID tag that each cattle have but it also has something hidden in it…a gas analyzer at the bottom,” explained Jean-François Coulombe, research technician at the Lethbridge centre.
“We measure the gas in real-time, continuously basically, depending on each cow that there is…because we do different treatments, feed additives and different diets so we can see if it lowers the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) – either methane or carbon dioxide.”