Episode 5: Talking to Dr Suzanne Rowe about breeding for reduced methane production

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Dr Suzanne Rowe is a geneticist at AgResearch in New Zealand, and is passionate about improving profitability and sustainability of global livestock systems using genomic technology. She presented at Sheep Breeders Round Table in November 2024 on breeding for methane reduction in sheep.

In this podcast she talks about the work that is being done on collecting phenotypes for methane production in the New Zealand, plus work being done in Ireland and the UK.

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Dr Liz Genever is a farmer, consultant and co-founder of Carbon Calling CIC.

Dr Nerys Wright is a sheep consultant and technical lead for SCOPS.

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