Nine beef research projects to share $6 million in funding

Results Driver Agriculture Research, Alberta Beef Producers and the Beef Cattle Research Council say that $6 million will go into beef research projects in Alberta.

Nine projects will get funding.

The list includes $2.1 million to expand disease surveillance work done in feedlots, $1.1 million to study how trace minerals and vitamins boost the immune systems in steer calves, just over $400,000 to develop new techniques to assess the nutrient value of feed, and money to investigate chronic pneumonia and Bovine Respiratory Disease.

The full list can be found here.