California has awarded $4.1 million in grants for three research projects that seek to identify and promote beneficial climate-smart practices at dairies, including manure recycling and innovative product development.

“This funding will help ensure that California continues to see emissions benefits from ongoing projects and achieve additional reductions from new practices that address enteric methane and turn manure into useful products,” state Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross said.

“We are excited about these proposals from our grantees and look forward to seeing their innovative work,” she added.

The projects are part of the California Livestock Methane Measurement, Mitigation and Thriving Environments Research Grant Program, which was funded by the 2021 state budget.

Projects funded

The awards were:

For more details about the projects, click here.