A look through the sustainability scope with Sara Place

Dr. Sara Place of Colorado State University joins host Matti McBride in this episode of the Progressive Dairy Podcast. An associate professor of feedlot systems and researcher with CSU’s AgNext, Place has been working with enteric emissions in cattle for the past decade. Learn about CSU’s feed additive calculator tool, how the beef and dairy industries are approaching the sustainability conversation and if the cattle industries can really have zero emissions by 2050 in this episode. 

Here is the episode breakdown:

• 2:20 – Current research at AgNext
• 3:40 – The development of the feed additive calculator tool (https://agnext.colostate.edu/dairy-fact)
• 9:00 – Comparing the beef and dairy industries approaches to sustainability
• 10:30 – How methane emissions are measured in a grazing environment
• 12:00 – Understanding insets and offsets
• 14:55 – Where beef-on-dairy fits into the sustainability scope
• 16:15 – Is net zero possible by 2050?
• 19:20 – How the beef and dairy industries are measuring up
• 21:00 – Where is there room for improvement?
• 23:15 – Rapid-fire questions