News

This is our first newsletter.We intend to send them out periodically, communicating to our stakeholders what our programme is about and what progress has been made. We hope you find this a quick read,
informative and useful in identifying what New Zealand farmers are doing to make themselves
more competitive in the emerging carbon conscious world.

Feel free to follow up on any enquires by contacting us.

Mark Aspin – Consortium Manager

PGgRc genetic breakthrough may help reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:08:37 +1300

Cows, sheep and other ruminant animals produce their methane emissions because of microbes that live in their digestive systems, and the PGgRc funded team has successfully mapped the genetic information of one of the microbes responsible. This discovery will accelerate work altering the methane generation of the organism through vaccine and pharmo-medical interventions.The findings have been published today in noted science journal PLOS One and this makes this ground-breaking research available to the wider scientific community.

New Zealand leads world breakthrough in methane research

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:00:34 +1200

In a world first, New Zealand scientists have mapped the genetic sequence of a microbe, which produces methane from the rumen of cattle and sheep.

With this understanding, the team of Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium scientists are now looking at ways of reducing the amount of methane farm animals produce – which in New Zealand accounts for 32 per cent of total greenhouse gas emissions.

PGgRc seeking new opportunities

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:00:00 +1200

PGgRc has the science to establish if a mitigation solution will work. We want to work with any parties who believe that they have the evidence for a solution.