Research grant for efficient beef growing project

Animal scientists from several universities, including the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will collaborate on research aimed to improve beef cattle feed efficiency. More than 970,000 farms in the United States raise beef cattle, with a US$71 billion (€48.732 billion) retail value. However, farmers and feedlot operators spend millions of dollars every year feeding some cattle that don't grow efficiently.

"Currently, we have no highly effective tools to improve feed efficiency, which can lead to an decrease in greenhouse gas emissions and demand for additional land to produce feed," said Jerry Taylor, Wurdack Chair in animal genomics in the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, and project director of a US$5 million (€3.432 million) grant to study feed efficiency in cattle. Read more ...

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