Researchers Looking for Solution in Cattle Reproductive Inefficiency

(AUBURN, AL) While cattle production represents a $2.5 billion industry in Alabama, the economic impact could be even greater if not for the limiting factor of reproductive inefficiency. Auburn University researchers are creating strategies to improve fertility in beef cattle. The research has been awarded a four-year, $400,000 grant from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). The advances will come from basic and applied research on the cellular, molecular, genomic and whole animal aspects of animal reproduction. Reproductive inefficiency in cattle is a long-standing limitation for producers.