New system integrates with Vytelle SENSE™ to give cattle producers affordable path to measure sustainability with feed efficiency
Vytelle, Media Release, 8 February 2026
Vytelle last week announced the commercial release of Vytelle SENSE™ Methane, a methane phenotyping system that costs a fraction of available systems and enables concurrent measurement of intake and sustainability.
The technology was featured at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association CattleCon in Nashville on February 3, where producers saw live demonstrations.
The system addresses a critical gap in livestock sustainability: how to economically identify cattle that convert feed into profitable outputs rather than wasted energy.
By integrating methane sensors developed in partnership with Integrity Communications Solutions, Inc. and existing Vytelle SENSE feed intake nodes, producers can now measure individual animal emissions alongside feed efficiency data without requiring additional labour or voluntary animal participation.
“Cattle producers need cost-effective, scalable tools backed by robust data to navigate the sustainability landscape with confidence,” said Dr Jason Osterstock, Vytelle’s chief science officer.
“Field trials of Vytelle SENSE Methane Powered by Integrity have delivered strong results, and we’re rapidly expanding the Vytelle methane database to give producers the information they need to make profitable decisions.”
It’s not just about sustainability of the beef and dairy industries, it’s also about profitability for producers, according to the company’s vice president of global sales.
“Vytelle measures methane emissions in the context of efficiency, which is where profitability starts. These are economically important traits for the world’s beef and dairy producers,” said Lisa Rumsfeld. “Without profitability, we can’t be sustainable. This technology retrofits into existing infrastructure at ten times lower cost than existing tools, allowing producers to capture methane at scale whether they’re meeting supply chain sustainability requirements or regulatory reporting obligations.”
“Vytelle already curates the world’s largest efficiency database, and we’ll rapidly build the world’s largest methane database across more than 30 breeds,” Rumsfeld added.
Field trials in North America throughout 2025 demonstrated that the system can yield accurate phenotypes in 30 days, with animals measured multiple times daily as they consume feed in bunks.
The correlation between methane emission concentration and measured feed intake was 0.47, providing the complete biological picture needed to interpret sustainability metrics.
“Methane emitted is energy lost in a cycle that cattlemen don’t get paid for. We need to economically identify cattle that spend their calories on performance and reproduction because those are the areas where we can be profitable,” said Austin Hoff, Vytelle SENSE strategic account manager.
A standard eight-node Vytelle SENSE system can phenotype 384 animals annually at a fraction of the cost of respiration chambers or competing technologies.
Unlike systems requiring voluntary animal participation aided by attractants, every animal in a Vytelle SENSE system receives multiple measurements daily through integrated feed bunk monitoring.
International rollout begins June 2026, with units available for purchase to existing Vytelle SENSE system owners and new customer availability to follow.
