Federated Farmers is praising AgResearch for partnering with the United States Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI), to sequence the DNA of microbes found in the rumen of farm animals.
Don Nicolson, Federated Farmers President, says that by identifying what organisms and enzymes are involved in an animal’s digestive process, there is real potential to see less waste and more productivity from farm animals.
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