More Efficient Chicken Production, Functional Teas, and More

AGRICULTURE

Fowl efficiency

Imagine a chicken that drinks less and eats less but yields as much or more meat. What sounds like a poultry producer’s pipe dream might soon become a reality, according to research from the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, funded by a $9.95 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). According to NIFA, a line of chickens bred by Sara Orlowski-Workman, an associate professor of poultry science with …