02495naa a2200313 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902200140006002400290007410000180010324501180012126000090023950008100024852008240105865300110188265300110189365300110190465300150191565300120193065300240194270000190196670000170198570000160200270000150201870000170203370000130205070000160206377301020207910640602023-04-26       2023    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d  a2076-26157 a10.3390/ani130711772DOI1 aSANTANDER, D.  aBeef steers and enteric methanebreducing emissions by managing forage diet fiber content.h[electronic resource]  c2023  aArticle history: Received 17 February 2023, Revised 21 March 2023, Accepted 23 March 2023, Published 28 March 2023. -- Correspondence author:  Ciganda, V.S.; Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental La Estanzuela, Ruta 50 km 11, Semillero, Colonia, Uruguay; email:vciganda@inia.org.uy  -- Academic editor: Francisco Javier Solorio-Sánchez. -- FUNDING: This work is part of a master's scholarship provided by the National Institute of Agricultural Research, INIA. The authors gratefully acknowledge technical support from the Laboratory of Nutrition of INIA La Estanzuela. -- This article belongs to the Special Issue Nutritional Strategies to Control Enteric Methane Production of Ruminants (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/animals/special_issues/rumiant_nutrition_methane )  aUnderstanding the methane (CH4) emissions that are produced by enteric fermentation is one of the main problems to be solved for livestock, due to their GHG effects. These emissions are affected by the quantity and quality of their diets, thus, it is key to accurately define the intake and fiber content (NDF) of these forage diets. On the other hand, different emission prediction equations have been developed; however, there are scarce and uncertain results regarding their evaluation of the emissions that have been observed in forage diets. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to evaluate the effect of the NDF content of a forage diet on CH4 enteric emissions, and to evaluate the ability of models to predict the emissions from the animals that are consuming these forage diets. © 2023 by the authors.  aCattle  aForage  aIntake  aMitigation  aQuality  aSulfur hexafluoride1 aCLARIGET, J.M.1 aBANCHERO, G.1 aALECRIM, F.1 aSIMÓN, C.1 aMARIOTTA, J.1 aGERE, J.1 aCIGANDA, V.  tAnimals, 2023, Volume 13, Issue 7, article 1177. OPEN ACCESS. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13071177