The Muster- Lyn Berry: Bovaer 10

Lyn Berry says methane solutions for cattle need to be fully developed before anything can be considered for Kiwi farms.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The hammer.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
And Lynn Berry joins us this afternoon on the mustard
once again. Good afternoon, Lynn. It sounds as though you're
out in the garden. You're putting them nesting up over
the strawberries, over the raspberries. Raspberries.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
I haven't figured out how to do the strawberries yet.
I've got a patch that's twelve meters by five meters,
but they just keep expanding everywhere.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I mean, it's terrible, a lot of problem to have.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
I know it's better than some of the Dutch Danish
farmers at the moment, but yeah, it's only minus.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah bovera tin, I think it's here, pronounce it now.
This is all about methane reduction and cows. But there's
a lot of this to unravel.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah. So there's a product on the market called Barbara ten.
It's not in the market here, it's in about thirty
five countries around the world have approved its use, and
it's supposed to reduce the methane production from remin bacteria
in our cattle are cows in this case, by thirty

(01:17):
to forty five percent. It's really interesting that the research
that I've read about it, it says that it's at
this stage, it should only be fed to female luminance
from their first mating until culling. And the FEEDAP, which

(01:37):
is terrible for a defexit person to say, doesn't recommend
it on other ruminants at this stage because the information
and the retroal results they've seen, they can't calibrate out
the how much it is. So that big all those
letters is the Panel on Additives and prod products or
Substances used in Animal Feeds and it's a panel that

(02:00):
reports back to the European Food Safety Authority. So the
product itself is made up of three different only three
different ingredients only and excuse me if I can't pronounce
the first one, which is three nitro oxo propanol.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Is best direct, well done, excellent.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Silicon dioxide and propelene glocal. Yes, they shorten the three
watson the call it's down to threeps. So when the
cow eat this is thep is broken down into n
OPA and HPA. So all the research shows that the

(02:42):
three duff gets broken down really rapidly and it's not
found in plasma to one to two hours post feeding
of your animals. And according to all the research that
I've seen the THREEP and n OPA are not found
in milk or edible tissue. This has been one of
the issues with trials that one of the dairy companies

(03:06):
are Ala in the UK, have been trialing it on
their dairy farms and it's been selling through some of
the supermarkets there. There's been quite a consumer backlash about
its youth and they worried about the fact that it
could be passed on, but according to trials it's not.

(03:29):
The other thing is that some of the in the
trials at high doses, they have found a relationship between
high doses and rats with testicular toxicity.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Hell have a name for a band that isn't it.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
It could be a good part rock band. Not not
too good for you blokes though. Because it reduces the
size of the testicles, it reduces the ani epidemimius spoom
counts man it can create poor s brom mobility.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Now it's supposed to reduce methane reduction by approximately thirty
percent in dairy cows and up to forty five percent
in beef cattle. They're saying as far as dosage, only
a quarter of a teaspoon abo via ten is re
needed per cow per day and it starts to take
effect within thirty minutes. If these are all trials, though
there's none of the set in concrete as far as

(04:26):
what the extra results are.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Surely okay. So the majority of the trials have been
done on individual cows or goat or rats or guinea pinks,
and what it has been as it hasn't been done
over like a whole herd situation or a whole farm
or in a large scale operation. There's not a heck

(04:49):
of a lot of information about the effect on milk production,
feed efficiency, milk solids, or any other gases that are emitted.
So it's really interesting the information that you read. There's
a good review out by Japanese organization that had some

(05:10):
really good information in it. But the big thing is
that it's supposed to be face for your care. But
if you're a person who is actually handling these products,
maybe an grain facility or somewhere like Sergeant Dens where
they're putting it into a palette form so it goes
into the cow's feet, then you have to wear protective gear,

(05:32):
eye protection, dust masks, imperviable gloves, and you have to
if you get it on yourself. You have to wash
it off really really quickly. So as far as for
human contact of the product, not ingesting it, and there
are some issues with it as well.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
As far as New Zealand. Though how realistic is it
for this being available? I see likes of Australia, the EU, Canada,
the US, et cetera. It's all available there. Realistically. Can
we expect it on our shoes?

Speaker 1 (06:02):
I wouldn't think. I mean not unless the government is
going to change the rules to make us all feed
that have our cows houses and barns and feed them
a controlled amount of feed each day, which we we
can't do when they go out into a paddack and
you know, and then we get the animal welfare groups
jumping up and down because we're a industrial or farming

(06:26):
The thing is too that it is. It's only supposed
to be used on some of the information I've seen
is on your lactating cows. It hasn't got it. It's
not supposed to be used for any other room and
and animals from the trial work that I've seen. So
it's quite interesting that the beef industry is using it
and their suggestions that it should could be used on

(06:47):
sheep and beef as well, only for and only for
lactating animals, so you've only got a certain amount of
animals of cattle that can have the right to get
that thirty to forty five reduction. So it's a bit
it's a bit confusing some of the information like can

(07:08):
you use it in all your cattle? In Denmark they
are actually bringing it in next year that it has
to be used on forty percent of all cattles.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Good luck with that, I'd say, Lynn, Hey, better leave
it there, thanks to your time. Interesting was always thank.

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(08:21):
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