What makes the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment so special?
There’s nothing else like it in North America! It’s the only research facility where scientists will be able to study ecological interactions and the effects of management practices in a total crop and animal production system. The National Centre for Livestock and the Environment will provide the facility and tools for researchers from many disciplines to work together on long-term solutions to key issues facing animal agriculture, including environmental health, food safety, and animal productivity and well being. The National Centre for Livestock and the Environment is unique. Using both conventional and alternative animal housing facilities, conventional and alternative manure storage and handling technologies, long-term crop rotations, and well equipped laboratories, this will be the only location in North America with the expertise and facilities to tackle major issues facing intensive animal agriculture from the molecular to the landscape level, using a whole farm approach. The
