Piloting Innovative Beef and Dairy GHG Emission Reduction Strategies in U.S. Feedlots and Dairies

The pilot project is designed to demonstrate that beef and dairy operators can be incentivized to adopt innovative feeding and manure management practices that will reduce methane (both enteric and manure produced) and nitrous oxide emissions and generate revenue from the monetization of carbon credits. The pilot will adapt three Beef protocols and one Dairy protocol, and it will test methodologies that qualify carbon offsets in the beef and dairy sector and that stimulate: (i) feed use efficiency, (ii) streamlining of complex data management, (iii) creation of systems that a diversity of producers can use to produce GHG reductions, (iv) monetization of verifiable carbon credits; (v) creation of carbon market linkages between Canada and the United States and between domestic carbon market standards (e.g. American Carbon Registry and the Climate Action Reserve), (vi) enhance economic viability of feed yards/dairy farms; and (vii) design scalable approaches to large GHG reduction tonnage.