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Quantification protocol for emission reductions from dairy cattle

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The Alberta Offset System gives agricultural producers new ways to benefit from helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development has developed a series of... More ≫

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The Alberta Offset System gives agricultural producers new ways to benefit from helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development has developed a series of Protocol Summary documents to provide producers with a brief introduction to each of the protocols related to agriculture. This fact sheet looks at the protocol related to emission reduction from dairy cattle.

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Quantification protocol for emission reductions from dairy cattle. Version 1.0

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The scope of the Protocol encompasses the animals, buildings, and land which constitute the biophysical system of a dairy farm. However, because of the complexity of the system, and because of... More ≫

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The scope of the Protocol encompasses the animals, buildings, and land which constitute the biophysical system of a dairy farm. However, because of the complexity of the system, and because of on-going development of other greenhouse gas quantification protocols in Canada, some aspects of the animal/building/land system are simplified or excluded. Withdrawn as of March 31, 2020.

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Prevalence of Streptococcus agalactiae in Alberta dairy herds

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Streptococcus agalactiae is on cause of contagious mastitis in dairy cattle. This type of mastitis spreads easily from cow to cow and producers may not be aware their cows are infected, since the... More ≫

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Streptococcus agalactiae is on cause of contagious mastitis in dairy cattle. This type of mastitis spreads easily from cow to cow and producers may not be aware their cows are infected, since the milk from infected dairy cows usually appears normal. However, while the milk appears normal, cows infected with S. agalactiae have reduced milk production and milk of inferior quality. This paper reports on results of a one-year project to test a new technique developed to improve the identification of S. agalactiae in dairy herds. The final result of the project was that the prevalence of herds infected with S. agalactiae decreased from 11 to six per cent.

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