Manhattan,
KS,
United States
Type
Public
Degrees offered
Bachelor's Degree
Researchers in the ruminant nutrition initiative pursue two key objectives: performing studies that enhance comprehension of core nutritional principles while offering practical applications for managing ruminant livestock diets. Their investigations span from theoretical to highly practical approaches. Program participants gain thorough training in rumen and post-rumen digestive processes, metabolic functions, and essential research methodologies for animal nutrition studies. The group's primary research focuses encompass dairy cattle feeding, beef cattle feedlot strategies, pasture-based livestock nutrition, greenhouse gas quantification, and nutrition for growing cattle.