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Letters: "Methane from farming is not inherently bad"

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Jesse A. Bostock, Staffordshire, discusses how methane is wrongly portrayed as harmful

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Letters: "Methane from farming is not inherently bad"

When organic matter from plants, grass and trees decomposes – in the absence of oxygen – methane (CH4) is formed. Its other name is marsh gas, which is produced in peat bogs, wetlands and by termites when...

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