More than forty faculty members support teaching, research, and extension activities in areas including nutrition, reproduction, molecular biology and physiology, genetics, meat science, and management related to dairy and beef cattle, horses, goats, and swine. Investigators make use of state-of-the-art lab facilities; beef, dairy, and equine research and teaching units; a meat processing facility
; and extension units statewide. Undergraduate students prepare for veterinary school; graduate programs in animal research; or careers in biological sciences, beef or dairy production, agribusiness, food production, and the equine industry. More than five hundred students are enrolled in one of the five undergraduate program options: Animal Biology, Beef Industry, Dairy Industry, Equine Industry, or Meats Industry. Three graduate degrees are offered: Master of Agriculture, Master of Science, and Ph.D. The University of Florida UF/IFAS Animal Sciences Department intends to educate, inform and provide updated information on UF/IFAS Animal Sciences Department activities and to support and promote the UF/IFAS Animal Sciences Department objectives for these activities through its social media site. All UF/IFAS Animal Sciences Department comments are made by UF/IFAS Animal Sciences Department designees. Social media users may share ideas through commentary that is consistent with and furthers the objectives of a UF/IFAS Animal Sciences Department post and the University of Florida UF/IFAS Animal Sciences Department reserves the right to remove any comments that do not fall within this purpose. By posting a comment on this social media site, users agree to follow the terms of use of the site, Florida and federal laws and University of Florida regulations and policies, including but not limited to the University’s Acceptable Use of Computing Resources Policy. The UF/IFAS Animal Sciences Department reserves the right to remove from the site any comments that violate these requirements.”
