Agreement Number
NR233A750011G018
Awardee Name
NATIVE MICROBIALS, INC.
Grant Type
On-Farm Trials
Project Title
Fighting Methane with MIGHT (Microbiome Insights into Greenhouse gases using High-throughput Technologies)
Awardee State/Territory
California
Involved States/territories
California
Colorado
Indiana
New Mexico
Oregon
Texas
Washington
Award Year
2022
Start Date
End Date
Award Amount
$1,406,972.00
Production/Use
Animal Agriculture and Husbandry
Resource Concern (Broad)
Air
Resource Concern (Specific)
Emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs)
Conservation Practice(s)
Feed Management
Project Background
Native Microbials Inc. will implement the use of a next generation, rumen-native microbial feed supplement to both improve feed efficiency and reduce enteric methane emissions on 20 commercial dairy farms in the Western United States. The project team will evaluate the environmental, economic, and social impacts of a climate-smart solution that sustainably mitigates enteric methane emissions and provides a novel enteric methane emissions quantification method for dairy cattle at a commercial scale.
Project Scale
Multi-farm
Regional
Project targeted to Historically Underserved producers?
No