{"id":202,"date":"2024-06-27T14:31:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T14:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foodanimal.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=202"},"modified":"2024-07-30T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T18:30:13","slug":"advancing-food-animal-innovation-and-talent-development-grants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foodanimal.ncsu.edu\/advancing-food-animal-innovation-and-talent-development-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing Food Animal Innovation and Talent Development Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Agriculture remains the largest industry in the state of North Carolina, recently surpassing $111 billion in economic impact. Food animal production and processing represents two-thirds of that economic impact. The grand challenges facing food animal agriculture increasingly call for transdisciplinary approaches and accommodation of multidisciplinary research teams, together with an ability to integrate industry researchers into the process. NC State has a long-standing history of support for this industry through research, education and extension activities and has structured its work and programs to be responsive to the integrated nature of animal production and food processing in the state. The Food Animal Initiative (FAI) will keep North Carolina agriculture growing by improving an already diverse agricultural economy and addressing the grand challenges facing animal agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Five platforms have been identified from the FAI Economic Development Study jointly commissioned by NC State\u2019s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) to evaluate core competencies and study the feasibility of building upon our capabilities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n