USDA NIFA is investing $11.4 million in 27 projects within the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Animal Nutrition, Growth, and Lactation program priority area. This AFRI topic area promotes innovative research in the cellular, molecular, genomic, and whole animal aspects of nutrition, growth, and lactation. Program priorities focus on nutrient utilization and efficiency (including the impact and influence of the gut microbiome, especially including mitigation of enteric methane and other greenhouse gas emissions), innovative approaches to feed formulation or the use of novel feed alternatives (especially those that contribute to reducing emissions of methane and other greenhouse gases), improving the quality and efficiency of meat, milk, eggs, fish, and animal fiber production, and metabolic disorders and nutritional deficiencies that impact production.
Winners list:
- American Meat Science Association
- Ohio State University (2 cases)
- Purdue University (2 cases)
- Texas A&M AgriLife Research
- Texas Tech University (2 cases)
- University of Arkansas
- University of Connecticut (3 applications)
- University of Delaware
- University of Georgia (2 cases)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Kentucky
- University of Maine
- University of Minnesota (2 cases)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (2)
- University of Wyoming (2 cases)
- Utah State University
- Virginia Tech (2 cases)
