Prediction of enteric methane production, yield and intensity in dairy cattle using an intercontinental database

This study is part of the Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE‐JPI)'s “GLOBAL NETWORK” project and the “Feeding and Nutrition Network” (http://animalscience.psu.edu/fnn) of the Livestock Research Group within the Global Research Alliance for Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (www.globalresearchalliance.org). Authors gratefully acknowledge funding for this project from: USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Grant no. 2014‐67003‐21979) University of California, Davis Sesnon Endowed Chair Program, USDA, and Austin Eugene Lyons Fellowship (University of California, Davis); Funding from USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Federal Appropriations under Project PEN 04539 and Accession number 1000803, DSM Nutritional Products (Basel, Switzerland), Pennsylvania Soybean Board (Harrisburg, PA, USA), Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (Burlington, VT, USA), and PMI Nutritional Additives (Shoreview, MN, USA); the Ministry of Economic Affairs (the Netherlands; project BO‐20‐007‐006; Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases), the Product Board Animal Feed (Zoetermeer, the Netherlands) and the Dutch Dairy Board (Zoetermeer, the Netherlands); USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (Hatch Multistate NC‐1042 Project Number NH00616‐R; Project Accession Number 1001855) and the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station (Durham, NH); French National Research Agency through the FACCE‐JPI program (ANR‐13‐JFAC‐0003‐01), Agricultural GHG Research Initiative for Ireland (AGRI‐I), Academy of Finland (No. 281337), Helsinki, Finland; Swiss Federal Office of Agriculture, Berne, Switzerland; the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra; UK); Defra, the Scottish Government, DARD, and the Welsh Government as part of the UK's Agricultural GHG Research Platform projects (www.ghgplatform.org.uk); INIA (Spain, project MIT01‐GLOBALNET‐EEZ); German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMBL) through the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE); Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science (SITES) at Robacksdalen Research Station; Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica, Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico (Grant Nos. 11110410 and 1151355) and Fondo Regional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (FTG/RF‐1028‐RG); European Commission through SMEthane (FP7‐SME‐262270). The authors are thankful to all colleagues who contributed data to the GLOBAL NETWORK project and especially thank Luis Moraes, Ranga Appuhamy, Henk van Lingen, James Fadel, and Roberto Sainz for their support on data analysis. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. The authors declare that they have no competing interests.