Completed Competitive Grant

Improved disease resistance in dairy cattle: Correlation of health disorders with measures of immune status; and Genetic improvement of disease resistance by identifying sires whose daughters have fewer disease problems

Project ID: 1990-05 and 1992-04

Lead investigator: A.E. Freeman, ISU Animal Science, et al

Year of grant completion: 1994

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Initiative.

Topics: Animal management and forage, Niche meat, dairy and poultry

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