Even though the Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding now calculates all U.S. genetic evaluations, it is clear USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) laboratory in Beltsville, Md., plans to stay involved in dairy-related genetic research. In a recently published video, Chavonda Jacobs-Young, an administrator with ARS, discusses how the group continues to work on genomic research in the nation's dairy cattle population.
Not only is the ARS group looking to improve milk production, they are looking to do it more efficiently since most of the production costs are related to feeding cows.
To learn the latest on genetic-based dairy research, watch the 1 minute and 38 second video above.
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