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Animal Husbandry Resources Lab
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The lab takes a comprehensive view of cattle, goat, and water buffalo production, including its environmental and social context.
AboutAbout the lab
An interdisciplinary view of livestock production
The Animal Husbandry Resources Lab studies the many problems involved in livestock production from an interdisciplinary and comprehensive perspective.
In addition to laboratory experiments, it uses field surveys, computer simulation, and satellite data, covering a broad range from biology to economics, rural sociology, and cultural anthropology.
Research sites are centered on Japan but extend overseas to Nepal, Thailand, and China.
Undergraduates are assigned to the Applied Animal Science Course in their third year, and to this lab within the course in their fourth year (graduate school: Division of Applied Biosciences, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Key terms
- Ruminants
- Livestock, such as cattle and goats, that bring swallowed food back up to the mouth and chew it again; they can digest grass
- Integrated crop–livestock farming
- Farming that combines raising livestock and growing crops, making use of manure and by-products in each
ResearchResearch themes
The meat and milk produced by livestock are part of our daily food, and in developing countries livestock are also used for plowing and transport. The lab connects the many fields involved in livestock production and studies it from a comprehensive perspective.
*Illustrative imageComprehensively evaluating livestock production systems
The lab collects and integrates information on the genetic ability, nutrition and management, and economic conditions of beef cattle, dairy cattle, pigs, and sheep to evaluate the production system as a whole. It builds models that include grassland and soil, and runs simulations.
*Illustrative imageNative livestock in tropical Asia
The lab studies the performance and husbandry of native livestock in tropical regions such as Southeast Asia to find optimal production systems. It also evaluates integrated crop–livestock farming, which combines livestock and crops, and grassland-based livestock production such as grazing.
*Illustrative imageTurning unused resources into feed
Ruminants can convert grass and agricultural by-products that humans cannot use directly into milk and meat. The lab examines the functional compounds contained in feed resources from various regions and their effects when fed, and develops locally produced feeds with added functionality.
*Illustrative imageTackling environmental problems caused by livestock farming
The lab addresses problems such as environmental pollution from livestock manure through interviews and questionnaires, feed design to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus in manure, and life cycle assessment (LCA). It also studies nutrient cycling that combines rice farming and beef cattle production.
MembersFaculty
The Animal Husbandry Resources Lab consists of faculty members, academic assistants, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2025
- ProfessorKazato Oishi
- Associate ProfessorYoko Tsukahara
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Longhorn cattle grazing marsh pasture - geograph.org.uk - 1520789” Evelyn Simak / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Comprehensively evaluating livestock production systems: “Cattle grazing on pasture at Place Barton - geograph.org.uk - 1422963” Rod Allday / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Native livestock in tropical Asia: “Water Buffal,Sylhet 01” Fabian Roudra Baroi / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Turning unused resources into feed: “Cattle feeding on silage - geograph.org.uk - 6059561” Eirian Evans / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Tackling environmental problems caused by livestock farming: “Dairy Farm - geograph.org.uk - 297703” Bob Forrest / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Animal Genetics and Breeding Lab): “Full Blood Wagyu Bull in Chile” Fernando Hartwig / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Cropping Systems Lab): “Circular Rice Paddy At Hida Folk Village (30203457)” Mark Bucayan / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Origin of Cultivated Plants Lab): “Field of buckwheat in Brazil” Jose.brenner / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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