WEST LAFAYETTE â Bovine 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 to support his groundbreaking work to produce a biosensor-based decision-making tool to manage the disease.
The innovation also will help reduce and target the use of antibiotics, strengthening public trust in animal agricultural practices of antibiotic stewardship.
FFAR recently announced Vermaâs receipt of its New Innovator Award and the International Consortium for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Agriculture Technology Working Group Award.
Purdue professor tackles bovine respiratory disease with over $1 million in grant support
Mohit Verma, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue. (Purdue University photo/Tom Campbell).
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Bovine 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 also will help reduce and target the use of antibiotics, strengthening public trust in animal agricultural practices of antibiotic stewardship.
CSU, industry partners provide protein for Colorado children in need 10 Dec, 2020
One of the many realities brought to light during the COVID-19 pandemic is that families are often one setback away from finding themselves in a position of food insecurity. In normal, non-pandemic times, roughly one-in-eight children throughout Colorado are already uncertain as to the source of their next meal, so it’s nothing short of serendipitous that a new collaboration between cattle industry partners, non-profits and Colorado State University has geared up to provide extra protein for Colorado children in a time when they need it most.
Beef Sticks for Backpacks is a program co-founded by Jordan Levi, managing member and founder of Arcadia Asset Management, which facilitated the purchase of Five Rivers Cattle, the world’s largest cattle feeding operation. Inspired by a beef sticks donation program he and his wife learned about in 2018 in western Texas, Levi was inspired to bring that i