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One Committed and Caring NC State Veterinary Student, So Many Choices

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Mar 11, 2026

Using AI and Advanced Sensors To Transform Feed Production

A collaborative workshop hosted by the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative and the Food Animal Initiative sparks feed milling research for increased food animal health and productivity. 

Mar 11, 2026

USDA Awards Avian-Flu-Fighting Challenge Grants to NC State Researchers

Two groups of top researchers at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine have won challenge grants from the US Department of Agriculture to complete projects aimed at combating the nation’s four-year-long outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza. In North Carolina, where poultry is the No. 1 commodity, HPAI led to the loss of more… 

Mar 9, 2026

USDA Awards Avian-Flu-Fighting Challenge Grants to NC State Researchers

Two groups of top researchers at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine have won challenge grants from the US Department of Agriculture to complete projects aimed at combating the nation’s four-year-long outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza. In North Carolina, where poultry is the No. 1 commodity, HPAI led to the loss of more… 
aerial view of a covered swine lagoon with a digestor

Jan 29, 2026

Excrement Enterprise

There’s an on-farm product that’s full of potential to those with a waste-not, want-not approach – animal and poultry feces. Mahmoud Sharara, director of NC State University’s Animal and Poultry Waste Management Center (APWMC), says this digestion by-product can be the key to creating bespoke self-sustaining farm systems, biofuels, offering  profit-savings and revenue-enhancing streams for farmers. 
cows in mechanical milking stalls

Jan 27, 2026

New USDA Report Explores the Economics of Precision Agriculture in Dairy Farming

Zach Raff, assistant professor of agricultural and resource economics, discusses trends in precision dairy farming and how the technology is impacting the profitability of the dairy industry in a new report. 
a close up image of pink piglets

Dec 16, 2025

Feeding Curiosity for Better Swine Nutrition

Research assistant Alexa Gormley, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in animal science, is investigating the impact of nutritional interventions on the intestinal health of newly weaned pigs in the hopes of improving the transition of young swine from milk to feed. 
Sheep graze near solar panels with crowd in background

Dec 1, 2025

Agrivoltaics: Making Marginal Land More Productive With Solar Panels and Sheep

An NC State University demonstration site shows how uneven terrain can be used for grazing sheep and generating electricity. 
a woman puts her arms around a sheep in a hug

Nov 5, 2025

Hands-on Experience Inspires Animal Science Major’s New Path

Undergraduate research and exposure to livestock animals through the Animal Science Club have given CALS student Olivia Hoffman a new perspective on her career trajectory. 
A black and white cow wearing a teal electronic monitor stares at a camera behind a gate.

Oct 21, 2025

Cow Collar Clues: Electronic Monitoring Helps Keep NC State Dairy Herd Hardy

In the year that NC State’s new dairy facility has been cooling cows, providing state-of-the-art milking technology and giving veterinary students experience in best industry practices, the collars around the cows’ necks have been communicating with computers. When dairy manager Mike Veach gets the resulting report each morning, he knows Cow 708 has been lying… 
Third-year veterinary student Joseph Richardson works his shift caring for dairy cattle at the college's Teaching Animal Unit.

Sep 19, 2025

One Committed and Caring NC State Veterinary Student, So Many Choices

Compassion, community and care are every bit as foundational to Joseph Richardson’s core as calcium and carbon.  His maternal grandfather, likely the first Black physician in rural Hertford County, North Carolina, opened his clinic in 1938, served his country in the medical corps during World War II and then spent five more decades caring for…