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Mastitis spoils milk produced by infected cows.
If the men in white lab coats are successful, feeding livestock is going to get much easier in the near future. By manipulating beneficial genes in feed grains, livestock could derive all the nutrients and health protection components they need at the feed bunk. Genetically modified grains and oilseeds carrying insect and herbicide resistance are already available. The feed grains of the future will benefit animals with improved protein, starch and oil contents or provide natural antibiotics, Hartnell said. For example, changing the amino acid content of a grain could lessen the need for supplements in pig or poultry feed.