By April Reese Sorrow
Special to Poultry Today
ATHENS, Ga. — University of Georgia researchers recently joined a national team of scientists working on a five-year, $4.1-million USDA grant designed around climate change’s effects on animal agriculture. “Animal production is vitally important to Georgia’s economy,” said Mark Risse, an engineer with UGA Cooperative Extension who is leading the research at UGA.
“In 2009, poultry, beef cattle, dairy and swine accounted for nearly $5 billion of the agricultural value in Georgia. It is important to keep our animal producers informed of practices that are environmentally sound, climatically. . .