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Senate committee hears proposal to study commercial seaweed feed for methane reduction
Summary
Senate Bill 208 would direct the Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon State University to study commercial seaweed production as a livestock feed to reduce methane emissions; the bill would appropriate $250,000 to OSU and require a report to the legislature by Sept. 15, 2027.
Senate Bill 208, sponsored by Senator David Brock Smith, would direct the Oregon Department of Agriculture in partnership with Oregon State University to study the potential for commercial seaweed production to be processed as a livestock feed additive to reduce cattle methane emissions. The staff summary said the bill would appropriate $250,000 from the general fund to OSU for research and would require ODA to present the study to…
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