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Dear
Colleagues:
Provide your insight on the animal production
programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research
Service (ARS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) using
a fun and interactive new online “ideas engine.” The tool is a powerful, collaborative, and engaging way for large groups to generate, prioritize, and refine ideas.
We need expert
input from you—our stakeholders, customers, and partners—on how federal
investments can best address current needs and challenges facing animal
production.The ideas you provide will help form the framework for
developing the next ARS National Program Action Plan and defining priorities
for NIFA’s animal production research, education, and extension. Information on these programs can be found at these links for ARS and NIFA.
If you are
interested in providing your insight by suggesting, refining, and prioritizing
ideas around any of the topics listed below, simply send an email with your
name, affiliation, email address, and topic of interest (in the format
provided below) to Insight@nifa.usda.gov by June 10.
You will receive instructions on how to join.You can participate as much
as you like, when you like, while the system is open during the month of June
2016.
Topic 1: Animal Genetics, Genomics
and Bioinformatics
Topic 2: Applications of
Biotechnology to Animal Production
Topic 3. Animal Well-Being, Stress
and Production
Topic 4: Animal Reproductive
Biology
Topic 5: Quality, Nutritional
Value and Healthfulness of Animal Products
Topic 6: Lactation Biology and
Nutritional Efficiency of Animals
Topic 7: Animal Growth
Biology and Alternatives to Antimicrobials for Growth Promotion
Topic 8: Forages and Forage Utilization
for Animal Production
Topic 9: Reducing Environmental Impacts
of Animal Production
Topic10: General Priorities for Animal
Production
First Name
Last Name
Affiliation
Email
Address
Topic of
Interest
(Please list the
topics by your preference: Example Topic 6, Topic 4, and Topic 9)
Thank you and
we look forward to your participation.
Sincerely,
Caird Rexroad,
ARS (rexroadIII@ars.usda.gov)
Adele Turzillo,
NIFA (aturzillo@nifa.usda.gov)
Charlotte Baer,
NIFA (cbaer@nifa.usda.gov)
Lakshmi Kumar
Matukumalli, NIFA (lmatukumalli@nifa.usda.gov)
Mark Mirando,
NIFA (mmirando@nifa.usda.gov)
Steve Smith,
NIFA (sismith@nifa.usda.gov)
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