Ample Agriculture Wins Funding from Canada’s AMRC
Ample Agriculture has been selected as a semi-finalist in the Agricultural Methane Reduction Challenge (AMRC), an initiative funded through Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. This distinction includes a prize of $153,000 CAD for Stage 1A and the opportunity to compete for up to $1.73 million CAD in subsequent rounds of the challenge.
The AMRC aims to accelerate innovative, scalable, and economically viable solutions to reduce methane emissions from the cattle sector. Methane emissions from cattle and other livestock account for more than 5% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, more than Germany, France and the entire global aviation industry combined.
Ample Agriculture will use funds from this first round of the AMRC to complete in-vitro testing of its lead compound, AMP-101. AMP-101 is a novel feed additive for cattle and other ruminants that prevents microbes in the rumen from producing methane and allows the animal to convert more energy from its food into milk and meat.
“We are proud to work with the AMRC to advance our lead program” said Mark Smith, co-founder and CEO of Ample Agriculture. “With this support, we will accelerate our efforts to bring farmers a cost-effective feed additive that improves yields at the same time that it reduces methane emissions, addressing urgent global needs for food security and solutions to the climate crisis.”
"The Agricultural Methane Reduction Challenge is bringing together innovators from right across the country who have new ideas about how to reduce agricultural methane emissions. I would like to congratulate all of the semi-finalists and wish them luck as they compete in the next phase of the Challenge,” said the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food.
To learn more about the AMRC and the 13 innovations selected as semi-finalists, please visit https://impact.canada.ca/en/challenges/methanechallenge.
About Ample Agriculture
Ample Agriculture aims to help farmers feed more people at lower economic and environmental cost. Our team is developing feed additives for cattle and other ruminants that allow animals to redirect energy from methane, a waste product, towards more milk and meat production. Our technologies deliver scalable, cost-effective solutions to improving productivity while reducing methane emissions.
