CFAES’s Beef Research Center in Wooster supports research to improve the efficiency and profitability of beef cattle production and the quality of beef for consumers.

The center has a capacity of 400 head. The main feedlot barn’s outside wing has 24 pens that house 10 animals each. The inside wing has 80 small pens for feeding cattle individually. The pens have concrete slatted floors over a 4-foot-deep manure storage unit. There’s an automated feeding system, a pole barn with four pens that can hold 20 head each and a 12-acre field with eight paddocks for stocker cattle grazing research.