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The animal and dairy science department has modern facilities for housing swine, sheep, beef cattle, dairy cattle, horses, and laboratory animals on both the Athens and Tifton campuses, and a beef research unit in Eatonton.

The beef cattle center at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station in Tifton, Ga., consists of a 250 cow operation with feedlot and metabolism facilities. The dairy cattle center at UGA-Tifton includes flush-clean main barns accommodating 200 cows.

The Livestock Instructional Arena provides the facilities and environment for superior educational programs for ADS. Visit the calendar and reservation website for the Livestock Arena.

The Meat Science and Technology Center (MSTC) is a fully functional meat animal processing facility that is federally (USDA) inspected. The main purpose of the MSTC is to facilitate teaching, outreach and research education in the areas of meat animal production, meat science, and muscle biology.

View current and past issues of the ADS Department Newsletter and DairyFax Newsletter. Each are published several times throughout the year.

Animal and Dairy Science provides programming in the areas of food animal production, equine-companion animal management, and animal and medicinal biotechnology.