CAAS Opens
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The Queensland Minister for Primary Industries and Fisheries, Tim Mulherin, recently opened the final stage of a $33 million Centre for Advanced Animal Science at the University’s Gatton campus. CAAS is a joint project between the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries and the University. At the opening of the first stage, Mr Mulherin said the CAAS development would boast world-class research facilities in the areas of animal growth, adaptation, welfare, health and vaccines.
“The Centre will not only encourage increased national and international collaboration between scientists in the developed and developing world but will also ensure that research and development leads to rapid practical outcomes,” he said. The first stage of CAAS incorporated grouped and individual animal pens for nutrition trials, a feed processing shed, cattle-handling yards and large hay shed.
CAAS has been made possible by funding from UQ, DPI&F and the Queensland Government Smart State Research Facilities Fund. The Executive Dean of the Faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Veterinary Science at the UQ Gatton Campus, Professor Roger Swift, said shared funding of CAAS was an excellent example of the scale of research infrastructure achievable with multi-institutional partnerships.
