Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) with The University of New England and the NSW Department of Primary Industries are co-funding the project “Selecting for lower methane sheep” through the Emissions Avoidance Partnership (EAP). The overall objective of the project is to enable Australian sheep breeders to select for reduced enteric methane emission. The project aims to collect methane data on 10,000 sheep across the sheep industry. The data will be used to obtain accurate estimates of genetic variation and heritability of methane emission traits and their correlations with other economic traits in sheep production, including feed intake.
