Mr. Paul Price:

If we put in the same amount of nitrogen - if the same amount of feed goes through the animal in dry matter terms even from multispecies swards - the same amount of carbohydrate will go through digestion and produce the same methane. As I have pointed out, cutting methane is really important. One of the unfortunate elements of the MACC is that it concentrates on CO2 emissions. It is suggested there will be a large reduction in methane but I have spoken with the experts at the EPA and so forth, and I do not get any sense that this is justified by physical reality. It seems to be just a residual from saying we want an amount of reduction, we will do something with CO2 and what is left over will be a reduction in methane.

We have to be very clear if that is actually going to occur.