Pāmu is measuring methane from cattle at a purpose-built facility near Taupō, where animals spend about 56 days having their individual feed intake recorded, head of innovation and extension Paul McGill says.

Nicknamed the Hilton, the shed uses RFID tags and C-Lock GreenFeed units.

“The cattle love it,” he says.

The aim is feed efficiency and methane conversion efficiency, feeding into genetics and breeding values for their beef programmes.

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