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Tennessee wins grant to study genetic information of cattle

Tennessee is one of the top beef-producing states in the nation.

KNOXVILLE, Ill. — Researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture have landed a $156,000 grant to look into opportunities to market cattle using genetic information.

The institute says the money from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service will fuel the study at the seedstock, cow-calf and stocker producer stages of the beef supply chain.

The research aims to provide cattle producers information to help make decisions on characteristics that could be valuable to breed naturally in calves.

This story was originally reported by the Associated Press

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