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Aug 5, 2026

Upskilling Frontline Food Animal Workers 

Eduardo Beltranena, assistant professor of animal science at NC State University, created a one-day, on-site workshop explicitly geared toward professional development for those workers, delivered entirely in Spanish. The workshop was developed thanks to a $50,000 grant from the North Carolina Food Animal Initiative, and piloted in North Carolina. With an additional investment from the National Pork Board, the workshop is now being offered in other states. 

May 28, 2026

Manure Marketplace in the Making: NC State’s Food Animal Initiative Developing New Tool

A new manure marketplace project at NC State University seeks to make the most of this organic fertilizer by creating a tool to connect livestock and poultry producers with row crop farmers. 

Apr 20, 2026

Wang Awarded NIFA Grant to Study Early Pregnancy in Pigs

To support healthy pigs and a more productive swine industry, Xiaoqiu (Churchill) Wang, associate professor of animal science, will study the critical early stages of pregnancy and how various factors affect fetal development in piglets. 

Mar 31, 2026

Fishing for Resilience

In new research, NC State applied ecologist Nadya Mamoozadeh and other researchers find that Southern Appalachian brook trout are most vulnerable to rising temperatures. 

Mar 30, 2026

I Am CALS: Summer Lanier

Alumna Summer Lanier, new executive director of the N.C. Poultry Federation, earned multiple degrees and tackled a variety of challenges on her path to statewide leadership. 

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… 

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. 

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.