Valio Hackathon produces solutions for Milk Production Environmental Challenges - Winners capture methane at barn
Valio invited specialist teams from around the world to enter a hackathon competition to find solutions for making use of the methane cows produce, and to reduce methane emissions. There were seven competing teams. The winners, Methanovores, solved the Methane Challenge on the barn level by collecting the methane from indoor air and using it on-site.Finnish dairy farms have reduced their methane emissions by nearly 50 percent in the past 25 years, mostly thanks to selective breeding, but an estimated 2.5 percent of Finnish greenhouse gas emissions come from dairy production (Source:
