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Dr. Jamie Courter is your Mizzou Beef Genetics Extension Specialist

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By Jared E. Decker Many of you have probably noticed that things have been a lot less active on the A Steak in Genomics™   blog, but you probably haven't known why. In January 2021, I was named the Wurdack Chair in Animal Genomics at Mizzou, and I now focus on research, with a little bit of teaching. I no longer have an extension appointment. But, with exciting news, the blog is about to become a lot more active! Jamie Courter began as the new MU Extension state beef genetics specialist in the Division of Animal Sciences on September 1, 2023. I have known Jamie for several years, meeting her at BIF when she was a Masters student. I have been impressed by Jamie in my interactions with her since that time.  Dr. Courter and I have been working closely together the last 6 weeks, and I am excited to work together to serve the beef industry for years to come! Jamie holds a bachelor’s degree in animal science from North Carolina State University and earned a master's degree in animal

Division of Animal Sciences Receive 2020 Research Equipment Grant

A trio of researchers will purchase one GreenFeed Pasture System with the grant

Written by Logan Jackson 

A trio of researchers in the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR) Division of Animal Sciences recently received a 2020 Research Equipment Grant from C-Lock Inc. to purchase one GreenFeed Pasture System, which measures the amount of methane, carbon dioxide, oxygen, hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide gases released by cattle.

GreenFeed Pasture System, C-Lock Inc.

Jared Decker, associate professor and state beef Extension specialist, Eric Bailey, assistant professor and state beef Extension specialist, and Derek Brake, assistant professor, are the trio leading the project for CAFNR. Their focus will be on using GreenFeed for the prediction of cow efficiency genetic merit (cow efficiency EPD) by combining gas production data, metabolic theory, and genomic and pedigree data.

C-Lock Inc., founded in 2009, developed and patented GreenFeed. This is the first year of the grant program, which received 44 research proposals from 17 countries and the United States. C-Lock Inc. awarded more than $500,000 total. CAFNR was one of nine projects to be funded.

“We’re honored to be one of the awardees and we’re incredibly excited to begin this research,” Decker said. “It’s a great opportunity for the Division of Animal Sciences and Mizzou as a whole.”

The first step of the project, which will happen over the course of three years, will be to phenotype cattle at the Beef Research and Teaching Farm at the South Farm Research Center in Columbia, Mo. Once those cows are measured, GreenFeed will be transported to the Thompson Research Center (Spickard, Mo.) and the Southwest Research Center (Mt. Vernon, Mo.). Decker, Bailey and Brake will also move to measure gas production of privately owned cattle that have been DNA tested in other CAFNR research projects. This data will be combined with other metabolism and genomic projects that the trio have recently launched.

“We will collect gas production data on 1,500 to 2,300 beef cows to produce a genomic prediction of cow efficiency,” Decker said. “If this cow efficiency EPD is created, then bull and heifer developers, seedstock operations and progeny testing herds will be motivated to collect this data using a GreenFeed system.”

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