The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has 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 NIFA recently announced for its Animal Nutrition, Growth and Lactation Program.
Jon Schoonmaker, associate professor of animal sciences, and six colleagues received a four-year, $650,000 grant to learn more about the dietary nontherapeutic antibiotics on intestinal microbial populations, the metabolites the microbes produce, and how the…
