Oklahoma State University researchers have launched a $1 million, four-year, multi-disciplinary project to study stress in cattle using artificial intelligence and sensor technologies.“I had a theory that some of these animals may be genetically predisposed to becoming dark cutters or having heart failure or being less efficient due to physical stressors and animal-environment interactions,” said Janeen Salak-Johnson, associate professor of animal and food sciences.
Oklahoma well owners are on their way to healthier drinking water this fall thanks to the Oklahoma Well Owner Network.The program, led by the Oklahoma Water Resources Center and Oklahoma State University Extension, provides free residential well water testing and training to rural counties in Oklahoma through a $200,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a $350,000 grant from the USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Rural Health and Safety Education Program.