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Does this offset the methane produced by cattle?

• marak830 7y ago
  I'm sorry I don't have a link I'm on mobile, but there have been some studies recently that showed putting seaweed into their diet reduced the methan production by a lot (80% iirc). How you would manage that with the above plan is beyond me though :-)
• jillesvangurp 7y ago
  Yes; don't have a reference available but healthy soil mostly consists of biomass compared to arid land which is mostly sand. The process of returning arid land back to healthy soil involves a lot of carbon capture in the form of dead plants, bacteria, root systems, fungi, etc. I've heard numbers suggestion this can be 70-80% of the mass and it builds up over time to form deep layers. Another issue is that N2O forms when urine and manure are mixed; which is common with intensive cattle farming. This happens a lot less when cattle is roaming around and instead this helps fertilize the land and stimulates growth; it's actually good for the land. So, compared to growing cattle indoors and feeding them with the wrong food that is typically also produced using intensive farming, there's a big difference.