AGRICULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
April 6, 2021
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ovine respiratory disease is the most common and costly disease affecting beef cattle in the world. Mohit Verma, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue University, recently received multiple awards, totaling $1.4 million, from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) to support his groundbreaking work to produce a biosensor-based decision-making tool to manage the disease. The innovation will also help reduce and target the use of antibiotics, strengthening public trust in animal agricultural practices of antibiotic stewardship.
FFAR recently announced Verma’s receipt of the FFAR New Innovator Award and the International Consortium for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Agriculture (ICASA) Technology Working Group Award. With this new support, Verma’s team now has additional industrial collaborators including Cactus Feeders, Five Rivers Cattle, Tyson Foods, McDonalds (ICASA) and Elanco Health (New Innovator Award).