ARS Research Labs Studying Beef

• U.S. Meat Animal Research Center
• Conservation and Production Research Laboratory

31 Research Projects Studying Beef

• Understanding the impact of bovine anaplasmosis in beef cattle for livestock resiliency (Animal Disease Research)
• Improving soil quality and productivity of eroded crop land using animal beef manure (Center for Agricultural Resources Research: Water Management and Systems Research)
• Long-term beef manure influences soil quality, carbon dynamics, and corn productivity (Center for Agricultural Resources Research: Water Management and Systems Research)
• Strategies to manage feed nutrients, reduce gas emissions, and promote soil health for beef and dairy cattle production systems of the southern great plains (Conservation and Production Research Laboratory: Livestock Nutrient Management Research)
• Assessing the environmental protective benefits of tannins and fat supplementation for finishing beef steers (Conservation and Production Research Laboratory: Livestock Nutrient Management Research)
• Investigating the formation of liver abscesses in dairy influenced beef cattle (Cropping Systems Research Laboratory: Livestock Issues Research)
• Characterizing the production efficiency and environmental performance of beef on dairy systems in new england (Food Systems Research)
• Economic and environmental analysis of expanding new york and new england beef cattle production (Food Systems Research)
• Partnership: characterizing formula-fed veal and dairy beef calf welfare through audits and industry engagement (Livestock Behavior Research)
• Characterizing formula-fed veal and dairy beef calf welfare through audits and industry engagement (Livestock Behavior Research)
• Characterizing formula-fed veal and dairy beef calf welfare through audits and industry engagement (Livestock Behavior Research)
• Comparing the healthfulness of grass-fed and grain-fed beef (Natural Resource Management Research)
• Does a diverse plant diet for cattle improve the healthfulness of grass-fed beef for people (Natural Resource Management Research)
• Rumen microbial communities in forage-based beef stockering and cow management systems in the southern great plains (Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center (ocparc): Livestock, Forage and Pasture Management Research)
• Enhancing beef cattle production and finishing systems in the southern great plains (Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center (ocparc): Livestock, Forage and Pasture Management Research)
• Effect of roughage level in feedlot diets on the energetic efficiency and growth performance of beef cattle (Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center (ocparc): Livestock, Forage and Pasture Management Research)
• Cashew nut-shell liquid to increase energetic efficiency and growth performance of finishing beef cattle (Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center (ocparc): Livestock, Forage and Pasture Management Research)
• Investigating the use of beef sires on dairy cows to produce higher value offspring for beef production (Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center (ocparc): Livestock, Forage and Pasture Management Research)
• Identifying and mitigating factors that limit beef production efficiency (Range and Livestock Research)
• Forage-based beef production systems research (Soil Dynamics Research)
• Intentional genomic alteration of beef cattle for reducing susceptibility to bovine viral diarrhea virus (bvdv) (U.s. Meat Animal Research Center: Animal Health Genomics Research)
• Genomes to phenomes in beef cattle research (U.s. Meat Animal Research Center: Genetics and Animal Breeding Research)
• Support effort for developing scientific information and new technology to solve high priority problems for u.s. beef, sheep, and swine industries (U.s. Meat Animal Research Center: Genetics and Animal Breeding Research)
• Applying nutritional strategies to improve early embryonic development and progeny performance in beef cows (U.s. Meat Animal Research Center: Livestock Bio-systems Research)
• Sustainable management of manure nutrients and environmental contaminants from beef and swine production facilities (U.s. Meat Animal Research Center: Livestock Bio-systems Research)
• Greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions from beef feedyard and compost in the upper great plains usmarc clay center, nebraska (U.s. Meat Animal Research Center: Livestock Bio-systems Research)
• Optimization of industry feasible sampling and laboratory methods to enabling classification of beef feedyards by salmonella risk (U.s. Meat Animal Research Center: Meat Safety & Quality Research)
• Efficacy of instruments to evaluate beef ribeye lean color and use output in the assignment of u.s. quality grades (U.s. Meat Animal Research Center: Meat Safety & Quality Research)
• Understanding the risks associated with utilizing genetically engineered microbes in beef cattle production systems: ... (U.s. Meat Animal Research Center: Meat Safety & Quality Research)
• Identification of genetic predictors and molecular indicators of liver abscesses in beef cattle (U.s. Meat Animal Research Center: Nutrition, Growth and Physiology Research)
• Optimizing nutrient management and efficiency of beef cattle and swine (U.s. Meat Animal Research Center: Nutrition, Growth and Physiology Research)