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Milk Production Research at USDA


USDA’s Agricultural Research Service is doing innovative research to help farmers get more production from livestock for less cost.

YouTube: Dairy Cow Research

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FEATURE – Milk Production Research At USDA

INTRO: USDA’s Agricultural Research Service is doing innovative research to help farmers get more production from livestock for less cost. The USDA’s Bob Ellison has more. (1:16)
INCREASING MILK PRODUCTION WHILE REDUCING FEED COSTS IS A CHALLENGE BEING ADDRESSED BY RESEARCHERS AT U-S-D-A’S AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE IN BELTSVILLE, MARYLAND. AND UNDERSTANDING THE GENOME, OR GENETIC MATERIAL OF DAIRY COWS COULD HELP DO THAT.

Tad Sonstegard, Research Geneticist, USDA Agricultural Research Service: We know where the location of the genes are now because we have genome assemblies and we know some of the functions of those genes and so we can just ask the question where in the genome are the genes that affect milk production.

UNDERSTANDING COWS’ GENETIC MAKE-UP, OR GENOTYPE, HELPS FARMERS BREED MORE COWS THAT EAT LESS FEED BUT PRODUCE THE SAME AMOUNT OF MILK.

Erin Connor, Research Leader, USDA Agricultural Research Service: Most of their production costs are related to feeding of the animals. So if we can reduce the amount of feed that the animals need to maintain the herd then we’ve substantially reduced their feed costs. You’re identifying cows that can produce the same amount of milk as their herd-mates, but they use less feed to produce that milk.

A-R-S LEADERSHIP SAYS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH LIKE THAT BEING DONE BY CONNOR AND SONSTEGARD IS THE KEY TO FINDING SOLUTIONS TO MANY OF THE WORLD’S AGRICULTURAL CHALLENGES.

Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Administrator, USDA Agricultural Research Service: Productivity in agriculture is critical to feeding the world’s population, which we know is going to grow from about six point six billion today to almost nine billion by Twenty-Fifty.

FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO U-S-D-A DOT GOV. FOR THE U-S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE I’M BOB ELLISON.