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Appendix F: Animal Health Priorities from a 2011 USDA NIFA Workshop
Pages 387-394

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... USDA NIFA plays a substantial role in the future of animal science research, through both priority identification and the provision of competitive research grants, and facilitates communication and collaboration between stakeholders related to animal agriculture. BY INDUSTRY High priority areas of animal issues developed by stakeholders participating in the 2011 ARS/NIFA workshop include: Beef Industry 1.
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From page 388...
... "A major challenge over the next 30 years will be to generate or discover the significant biological production and production efficiency increases and to generate improved economic efficiencies to meet the global demands for meat production and to ensure profitability for producers." Dairy Industry 1. Top Priority: Reproduction and reproductive efficiency as one of the largest drivers of profitability.
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... 7. Develop research programs focused on improved production traits including health, immunity, growth, efficiency, reproduction, parasite resistance, product quality, and animal well-being.
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... Promote the development of the next-generation genomic and genetic technologies and increase genetic progress through improved breeding and selection programs, 3. Expand and coordinate research programs in phenomics, including development of comprehensive phenotype databases required for genetic characterization.
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... Specific areas of research include nutrition and nutrient partitioning; metabolic modifiers; fundamental biology of productive tissues, including muscle adipose, mammary gland, liver wool, etc; and adaptability, including thermal stress in response to climate change and another environmental factors.
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... Meat Quality and Muscle Biology 1. Top priority: Enhance food animal meat product quality to increase consumer demand for food animal products.
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... Food Animal Production and Energy Evolution 1. Top Priority: Ensure economic and environmental sustainability of livestock enterprises by characterizing energy partitioning and evaluating opportunities for energy alternatives and more efficient use.
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... Top Priority: Enhance the healthfulness of animal products and identify factors that control variation in nutritive value of animal-source food products.
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Key Terms

  • animal science
  • environmental sustainability
  • production efficiencies
  • production efficiency
  • nutrient utilization

  • product quality
  • animal production
  • food animals
  • improved production
  • food safety

  • animal health
  • animal agriculture
  • production traits
  • develop research
  • management issues

  • poultry layer
  • swine production
  • enhance feed
  • animal products
  • usda nifa

  • product value
  • meat product
  • ingredient options
  • nutritional efficiencies
  • nutritive value

  • promote reproductive
  • heifer development
  • current population
  • enhance local
  • animal comfort


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