The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture recently awarded three grants totaling more than $1.4 million for research on health issues in cattle and swine. The projects are among $13 million in investments that USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture recently announced for its Animal Nutrition, Growth and Lactation Program.
Cattle, swine research projects underway
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Purdue University researchers will study the effects of dietary non-therapeutic antibiotics in beef cattle with a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Nonpathogenic factors that influence thyroid hormones in pigs are the focus of a Purdue University research project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
A grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture is supporting research into the relationship between skeletal muscle metabolism and ketosis, a metabolic disorder in dairy cows.
