Riduzione delle Emissioni di Metano in Vitelloni in Ingrassamento Tradizionale (REMVIT)

Testing and disseminating innovative technologies to help reduce enteric methane emissions in beef cattle. This is the objective of the Remvit project: Reduction of methane emissions in young cattle in traditional fattening.

The overall objective of the project is to test and disseminate techniques and products that can help reduce enteric methane emissions in beef cattle. The expected result is to reduce this specific type of impact through diet. The study on nutrition, linked and coordinated with other technological applications already investigated in the field by various international and national centres, will make it possible to assess, including through the use of new metrics, the extent of emissions and the applicability in the field of the technologies tested, as well as any effects on animal performance, welfare and health, and the quality of the products obtained.

To this end, the individual actions of the project are geared towards achieving the following specific objectives:

• the development of protocols for the in vivo assessment of methane emissions, which are low-cost and respectful of animal welfare, and which use technologies that are non-invasive for the animal, rapid and whose reliability and resistance will be tested in the reality of livestock farming;
• the study and use of feed additives, both synthetic and natural, such as algae and tannins, either alone or in combination with lipids;
• the verification of different methods for calculating climate-changing gas emissions for different categories of beef cattle compared to direct measurements, in vivo and in vitro.