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Advancing Food Animal Innovation and Talent Development Grants Awarded

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has awarded six Advancing Food Animal Innovation and Talent Development Grants to help shape the future of food animal agriculture.

Food Animal Scholars Find Their Way

The Food Animal Scholars program offers mentorship and hands-on learning for poultry science and animal science majors interested in food animal medicine.

Rodolphe Barrangou and Ph.D. student Echo Pan in the lab.

Future-proofing Food and Agriculture: NC State’s Genome Editing Center

How will genome editing benefit food and agriculture? We asked CRISPR expert Rodolphe Barrangou, an NC State faculty member and co-founder of five companies.

Adam Fahrenholz, Associate Professor of Feed Manufacturing; Dr. Marissa Cohen, Area Specialized Agent for Animal Food Safety; Dalas Norton, Research Technician & Hauler for LWRFL; Samuel Brown, Feed Mill Education Unit Manager; Corey Wishon, doctoral student; Dr. Andrea Rubio, post-doctoral scholar.

Feed Mill Donates 11 Tons of Feed to Western North Carolina

CALS’ Feed Milling Program jumped into action to produce 11 tons of chicken feed to help small farmers and backyard chicken keepers in Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene.

New Grant Gets Proactive with Pigs

A collaboration of researchers will explore a new, high-tech approach to controlling indoor environments for pigs with support from a $1 billion grant from the National Institute of Farming and Agriculture.

A boudin sausage cut in half with a plastic fork

Fishing for a New Sausage Recipe

A new recipe for boudin, a beloved Louisiana sausage, calls for smoked salmon and expertise from seafood scientists with NC State University.