重点关注的生产系统领域为获得畜牧业职业必不可少的多学科工具提供了独特而令人兴奋的机会，其中包括识别和解决管理系统，动物福利，环境影响以及食品质量/安全问题。动物科学学院与食品，农业和自然资源科学学院以及兽医学院其他部门的同事合作，允许学生对那些对动物生产系统研究生计划感兴趣的人使用多元化的多学科团队。资源将包括校园和州外牲畜设施以及农场合作者。生产系统研究项目的示例包括奶牛和猪的统计控制过程控制原理，低投入奶牛和猪，奶牛杂交，替代家禽，奶牛和猪的动物舒适度和行为，牛犊和牛肉饲养场管理以及决策过程在农场一级
The production systems area of emphasis provides unique and exciting opportunities to gain multidisciplinary tools essential for a career in the livestock industry that will include identifying and solving problems in management systems, animal welfare, environmental impacts, and food quality/safety issues. Animal Sciences faculty in collaboration with colleagues in other departments in the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, and the College of Veterinary Medicine allow student access to a diverse multidisciplinary team for those interested in an animal production systems graduate program. Resources will include both campus and out-state livestock facilities and on-farm cooperators. Examples of production systems research projects include statistical control process control principles in dairy and swine, low input dairy and swine, dairy crossbreeding, alternative poultry, animal comfort and behavior in dairy and swine, cow-calf and beef feedlot management, and decision making processes for evaluating management at the farm level for options across all species with implications to environmental impact and food quality/safety.