The Louisiana State University Agricultural Center was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program.
The grant will support projects focused on improving beef production among small cattle farms in Louisiana with less than 50 cows. Key services include the development and delivery of nutrition, growth, reproduction and genetics strategies to increase weaning weights of calves by at least 25% by the end of the five-year project period. Economic and financial evaluations of practices and whole-farm profitability analyses will also be conducted. An outreach program including artificial insemination and grazing schools will be established, with participation from the Natural Resources Conservation Service and small cattle producers. Producers' experiences will be shared and marketing strategies like cooperative and group marketing will be facilitated. The goal is to have a multiplication effect to continue impacts beyond the project completion.
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