The Ruminant Nutrition and Gut Microbiology Lab welcomes opportunities to collaborate with producers, industry partners, commodity groups, allied agricultural organizations, academic collaborators, and other stakeholders interested in ruminant nutrition, microbial ecology, food safety, antimicrobial resistance, and animal production.
The lab is interested in working with partners to understand their specific needs and to develop research that evaluates how manipulation of ruminal and intestinal microbes can improve profitability on the farm, animal performance, production efficiency, sustainability, and food safety.
Discuss a collaboration:
Areas of collaboration include:
Feed additive evaluations
Diet and nutrition management
Rumen fermentation
Microbiome research
Pathogen reduction
Antimicrobial resistance
Methane emissions
Feed efficiency
Sustainability
Interested in collaborating with us?
Sponsors and collaborators interested in working with the lab are encouraged to provide:
- Project goal
- Animal species or production system
- Product or management practice to be evaluated
- Desired outcomes
- Expected timeline
- Sampling or laboratory needs
- Funding or sponsorship information (if available)
Working together, we can help determine:
- Project feasibility
- Research design
- Animal and laboratory needs
- Budget considerations
- Next steps