Elanco Animal Health – Bovaer

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Elanco Animal Health – Bovaer

About the Company:

Elanco Animal Health Incorporated is a global company working in animal health, dedicated to innovating, and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets, creating value for farmers, pet owners, veterinarians, stakeholders, and society. With nearly 70 years of animal health heritage, they are committed to helping our customers improve the health of animals in their care, while also making a meaningful impact on our local and global communities. Elanco, believes healthier animals are central to addressing global issues like food security and nutrition, mental health and social isolation, and environmental sustainability. It all starts with healthier animals.

About the Solution:

On May 28, 2024 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirmed Bovaer® meets safety and efficacy requirements for use in lactating dairy cattle. Elanco Animal Health announced that Bovaer® (3-NOP), a first-in-class methane-reducing feed ingredient, will soon be available for use in the U.S. dairy industry.

The Food and Drug Administrations’ (FDA) comprehensive, multi-year review shows that the product meets safety and effectiveness requirements to be sold in the United States. More than 70 peer-reviewed studies and 100 on-farm trials across 20 countries have shown that Bovaer consistently reduces enteric methane emissions. Feeding one tablespoon of Bovaer per lactating dairy cow per day can reduce methane emissions about 30% or approximately 1.2 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions annually while creating opportunity for dairy farmers to be financially rewarded for reducing their dairy’s carbon footprint. Bovaer works by suppressing the enzyme in the cow’s rumen that forms methane. Feeding one million cows Bovaer would reduce emissions equivalent to removing more than 285,000 cars from the road for a year.

Feeding Bovaer to cows provides a scalable and credible way for dairy farmers to benefit from being good stewards of the environment by being financially rewarded for implementing on-farm sustainability interventions.

Elanco Animal Health 2500 Innovation Way Greenfield, IN USA 1-877-352-6261 Visit Company Website

Solution Type

  • Additive

Vendor

  • Others

Product

  • Other

Problem

  • GHG

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Solution Strengths, Weaknesses and Critical Indicators

Additives generally fall into two categories, feed additives and manure additives.

Feed additives are generally used to:

  • Increase production
  • Decrease greenhouse gas emissions

    • Manure additives are generally used to:

  • Disrupt the breakdown of manure
  • Reduce foaming
  • Physical and Biochemical Stabilization
    • Neat Matrix
    Nitrogen Recovery
    Phosphorus Recovery
    Storage Reduction
    GHG Reduction
    Odor Control
    Pathogen Reduction
    P Peer Reviewed
    D Documented
    E Expert Opinion
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    Newtrient Comments/Opinions:

    Elanco Animal Health has recently been added to the Newtrient catalog. Newtrient will continue to work with Elanco Animal Health to further refine the cost and performance information on this solution.

    To receive carbon credits for using Bovaer®, Dairy farmers incorporate Bovaer into their rations and then quantify the effect using carbon market-friendly tools which then quantify greenhouse gas emissions reductions. In addition to the carbon marketplace, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded $89 million in funding to support farms using technologies like Bovaer® to reduce their methane emissions.

    Newtrient will update this entry as more information becomes available and as new commercial dairy installations come online.

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