Food Focus
Food Focus
Michael von Massow
Genetics Can Help Create a Lower-Emission Dairy Cow - Dr Christine Baes
26 minutes Posted Jul 31, 2026 at 8:11 pm.
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We've all heard of the emissions footprint of the dairy industry. What we hear about a lot less is how much the industry is doing to reduce that footprint. Di you know that some cows are genetically predisposed to emit less - significantly less. And genetic progress is cumulative and permanent. In this episode Mike speaks to Dr Christine Baes about her work in the genetics of emissions in diary and where she sees it going.