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Advanced Animal Systems

Our Advanced Animal Systems Challenge Area supports research that improves animal health and welfare and pioneers practices that sustain our food system.
Our Advanced Animal Systems Challenge Area supports research that improves animal health and welfare and pioneers practices that sustain our food system.

Program Contact

Dr. Jasmine Bruno
jbruno@foundationfar.org

Development Contact

Lauren Hershey
lhershey@foundationfar.org

We Pioneer Research to Advance Animal Systems

Congress established FFAR to increase public agriculture research investments, fill knowledge gaps and complement USDA’s research agenda. Our public-private partnerships match federal funding from Congress with private funding, delivering a powerful return on taxpayer investment.

Our Advanced Animal System grants, programs and consortium use this funding to support research that improves animal systems.

Learn more about our Advanced Animal Systems grants, programs and consortia.

Advanced Animal System Awarded Grants

Promoting antimicrobial stewardship through improved understanding of how feedlot cattle are classified based on BRD risk

Awarded Amount 124,948
Year 2023
Matching Funders Kansas State University, Beef Marketing Research, Cactus Research, Five Rivers Cattle Feeding, Hy-Plains Feedyard, Innovative Livestock Services, Veterinary Research & Consulting Services, Zoetis

Acoustic Monitoring to Support Mass Cattle Treatment Decisions

Awarded Amount 50,000
Year 2023
Matching Funders Cactus Research, Ergense, Five Rivers Cattle Feeding, McDonald’s Corporation, Veterinary Research & Consulting Services

Developing a model protocol for tracking antibiotic use & AMR surveillance across a large-scale commercial swine production system

Awarded Amount 202,555
Year 2023
Matching Funders Pipestone, National Pork Board

Advanced Animal Systems Consortia

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Insights

As an inclusive organization, we host Insights from thought leaders across for food and agriculture community on DEI. Learn more about their unique experiences and perspectives.

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Building Team Chemistry: The Bigger Picture Behind Cows & Climate

Conor McCabe headshot

Conor McCabe

Animal Biology Graduate Student, UC Davis

Insight on Livestock Methane Mitigation

Dr. Rod Mackie, Professor, Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

Champaign, IL

FFAR Vet Student Fellow Research Spotlight

Anna Schaubeck

2021 FFAR Veterinary Student Research Fellow

Celebrating Innovation on National Egg Day

Paul Montgomery

Paul Montgomery

Director of Communications, United Egg Producers

How Heat Stress Impacts Swine Health

FFAR Fellow, Lauren Anderson

North Carolina State University

Dairy Cattle Metabolic Capacity: Milking It for all It’s Worth

Linda Beckett

2019-2022 FFAR Fellow

Climate change and Dairy Farming: Beating the Heat

Ananda Fontoura

2018-2021 FFAR Fellow

Research is Critical to Preventing the Next Pandemic

Tim Kurt, DVM

Scientific Program Director, October 2016- September 2022 Advanced Animal Systems

Vitamin A, Healthy Cows and Less Antibiotics

Jaime Strickland

2018-2021 FFAR Fellow

A Look at Maine Aquaculture

Tim Kurt, DVM

Scientific Program Director, October 2016- September 2022 Advanced Animal Systems

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