Ree Rumen - Precision Feeding for the Environment: Rumen, Methane, and Nutrition

RuMeN aims to study, through in vitro laboratory tests, the role of feeding on rumen fermentations, with a view to improving the production efficiency of animals and the economic and environmental sustainability of the livestock farm. The topics will be addressed according to the modalities of a research project, that is, starting from an analysis of the scientific literature on the problem of enteric methanogenesis, formulating a hypothesis and collecting measured data to be processed and interpreted.

The student will learn to know and evaluate practically the possible nutritional strategies for the mitigation of methanogenesis on the basis of chemical and biological analyses, through the use of in vitro techniques carried out using a ruminal inoculum, also useful in a research and development perspective of the animal feed industry.