112th ANNUAL TECHNICAL MEETING
Academy Luncheon and Speaker
Stacey A. Gunter, Ph.D. Dr. Stacey Gunter is currently the Acting Center Director of the USDA, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center located in El Reno, Oklahoma, providing leadership to 85 employees at 4 locations across the state. During his 30-year career, he has taught courses in ruminant nutrition and management, and conducted research in grazing livestock nutrition. Stacey has three research activities in respiratory gas flux by grazing beef cattle. First, the effect of sire selection on inheritance and progeny methane emissions. Second, the effects of diet type and intake rate on ability to predict metabolizable energy intake using respiratory gas flux. Last, the ability of domestic seaweeds to mitigate enteric methane emissions. He received his B.S. in Animal Science from Oregon State University (1987), a M.S. in Animal Science from the University of Nevada-Reno (1989), and Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition (1993) from Oklahoma State University. For 18 months, he was a post-doctoral research associate at the Clayton Livestock Research Center with New Mexico State University where they researched receiving diet formulations for staring cattle in feedlots. He joined the faculty of the Cooperative Extension Service at the University of Maine in 1994 as a Beef Cattle Specialist and in 1996 he moved to the Southwest Research & Extension Center in Hope. In 2008 he joined ARS as a Research Leader and ruminant nutritionist in Woodward, Oklahoma. Stacey and his wife, Robin, reside in Woodward and have 2 grown children, Tanner and Madeline.
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