@article{8bdebcd47de34fdd860815acc27cd873,
title = "What i have heard: Conference summary and thoughts for the future",
abstract = "Twenty-nine presentations by 28 speakers at the California Net Energy System (CNES) 50th Anniversary Symposium provided an informative overview of the past, present, and future of the CNES. The Symposium was divided into eight sessions, with each one or two sessions followed by a lively discussion period. This article provides a summary of key points made by the speakers in each session as provided at the conclusion of the Symposium. Additional thoughts about future directions for research related to the CNES are offered.",
keywords = "beef cattle, conference summary, net energy",
author = "Galyean, {Michael L.}",
note = "Funding Information: retained energy and protein) associated with genotype, growth-enhancing technologies, management factors, environment, and physical activity (to name a few) is limited by the sheer paucity of data to parse out such sources of variation. Perhaps it is time to think on a large scale in terms of developing a new database to address such research questions. Much like the beef genome, genetics of bovine respiratory disease, food safety, and other major research projects that have been supported by a significant infusion of federal funding, is it time to carve out funding for an 8-to 10-yr federal grant program to create a new CNES database? A multi-institutional grant with common methodology for collection of body composition data and associated feed composition and digestibility data could provide the opportunity to directly and systematically consider the effects of numerous sources of variation. Funding to support the research that led to the development of CNES came largely through state and federal (Hatch) funding available to the California Agricultural Experiment Station, with strong support (although not likely financial support) from the California beef industry. At present, the ability of any single state to replicate the type of investment that was made by California in the late 1950s and early 1960s is virtually nonexistent. Given the significance of the CNES to the beef industry and its immeasurable return on the original investment—not only in the United States, but also abroad—a multimillion dollar national investment in such a project would pay immense dividends for another 50 yr. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society of Animal Science.",
year = "2019",
month = jun,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1093/tas/txy146",
language = "English",
volume = "3",
pages = "1076--1079",
journal = "Translational Animal Science",
issn = "2573-2102",
publisher = "Oxford University Press (OUP)",
number = "3",
}