Daily methane emissions and emission intensity of grazing beef cattle genetically divergent for residual feed intake.

Abstract: As daily methane production (DMP; g CH4/day) is strongly correlated with dry matter intake (DMI), the breeding of cattle that require less feed to achieve a desired rate of average daily gain (ADG) by selection for a low residual feed intake (RFI) can be expected to reduce DMP and also emission intensity (EI; g CH4/kg ADG). An xperiment was conducted to compare DMP and EI of Angus cattle genetically divergent for RFI and 400-day weight (400dWT).