Cattle are excessively flatulent because Big Farma feeds them an unnatural diet of mature grains.
If they were fed their natural diet of grass, then their digestion, their health, and their nutritional value to us humans who eat their meat or their milk would all improve.
Hate to burst your bubble, but I was raised on a Wisconsin dairy farm between 1947 until I graduated from HS & left in 1958.
OUR cows could fart with the best of them.
They were fed hay/grass silage in the winter, when it was too cold to let them outside & they grazed on grass pastures when in the spring & summer & fall.
They got SMALL amounts of ground corn/oats grain which we also raised on the farm fed dry on the top of the silage. IT by no means was a large amount. But fart they did.
Don’t know about your AGRICULTURAL upbringing, but this whole thing on the part of California is a total hoax, which will harm the dairy farmers who have invested their lives there & the costs of all dairy products will cost consumers. How much is a dormant-vacant dairy farm worth in property taxes? How much will anyone else pay for it?
This is beyond stupid.