Livestock & aquaculture

Replacing soy meal and wild-caught fishmeal with black soldier fly larvae, mealworms, single-cell protein and microalgae — insect farms that turn food-industry byproducts into a 55-75% protein concentrate rich in gut-protective lauric acid, cutting feed antibiotic use and the carbon footprint of meat and dairy, even as one flagship US-China insect JV stalled in 2026 while the sector pivots toward Asia.

High-tech monitoring systems for animal health and welfare using IoT sensors, AI, and computer vision.

Farm-raised aquatic protein — Atlantic salmon net-pens, land-based recirculating (RAS) salmon, tropical Vannamei shrimp ponds and Chinese marine ranches — the fastest-growing food-production sector, now surpassing wild catch, with aquafeed as the cost and sustainability lever.

Multispecies probiotic blends and microencapsulated Bacillus/Streptomyces strains manage shrimp and fish gut and pond-water microbiomes, controlling Vibrio-driven disease without antibiotics.

Microbial single-cell protein grown by fermenting methane, CO2/hydrogen or side-streams into a high-protein feed ingredient that displaces fishmeal and deforestation-linked soymeal.

Gene editing and genomic selection are converging on livestock breeding — from FDA-cleared heat-tolerant cattle and disease-resistant pigs to India's first gene-edited sheep.

Feed additives, red-seaweed and vaccine technologies that suppress enteric methanogenesis in cattle, sheep and goats — delivering 30–98% methane reduction while recovering 3–7% of feed energy as propionate.

Rumen/gut direct-fed microbials and targeted bacteriophage cocktails are displacing broad-spectrum antibiotics in livestock and poultry, controlling Salmonella, E. coli and Listeria without disrupting the animal's own microbiome.

Flow-cytometry and microfluidic laser-ablation sperm sexing, combined with OPU-IVF embryo production and preimplantation genomic screening, that lets dairy producers guarantee over 90% female offspring from elite cows, cutting herd size and methane emissions 15-20% while preserving milk output.

Organic and hydroxy trace minerals (zinc, copper, manganese, selenium) chelated to amino acids or bis-chelated complexes replace inorganic sulfates/oxides in livestock diets for higher bioavailability and lower excretion.

Advanced veterinary biotechnology focusing on mRNA vaccines, recombinant proteins, and novel biologics to combat zoonotic and livestock diseases with rapid-response platforms.

Direct-to-consumer DNA testing of dogs and cats — a stack from cheek-swab collection to a LIMS-verified veterinary genetic passport screening hundreds of inherited disease risks.