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The animal nutrition program emphasizes research and graduate and undergraduate education in both ruminant and non-ruminant species. Research projects relate to feeding and management systems that improve growth efficiency and health of animals and enhance the human health attributes of animal products while sustaining environmental quality. The research ranges from the very applied problems in animal growth to highly fundamental scientific questions of animal growth, production, and health. Research, education, and extension programs in Animal Nutrition currently concentrate on beef cattle, dairy cattle, swine, poultry, and sheep in the following disciplines.
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Environmental Nutrition |
| Molecular Nutrition |
| Nutritional Physiology |
| Animal Production Systems |
| Nutritional Biochemistry |
Applied Animal Nutrition
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Animal Nutrition faculty have collaborative opportunities with colleagues in these Departments, Colleges, and USDA laboratories:
 Agronomy
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Food Science and Human Nutrition
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
Veterinary Medicine
USDA National Animal Disease Center
USDA National Swine Research and Information Center
USDA National Soil Tilth Laboratory
Faculty in Animal Science offer a major in Nutritional Science (Animal Nutrition specialization). Other possible majors include:
Animal Science
Biochemistry
Molecular, Cellular, and Develpmental Biology
Sustainable Agriculture
Environmental Science
Microbiology
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