Bouffault International Animal Agriculture Award

G. Eric Bradford

G. Eric Bradford became an ASAS member in 1951, the same year that he graduated with a B.Sc. degree in Agriculture from Macdonald College of McGill University. After earning M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Genetics and Animal Husbandry from the University of Wisconsin, he accepted appointment to the faculty at the University of California, Davis where he remained through retirement in 1993. During his professional career, he held various administrative appointments; taught courses in international agriculture, introductory animal science, animal breeding and genetics, beef cattle and sheep production and animal growth; and trained more than 25 graduate students, many of whom currently hold prominent positions in animal agriculture in their home countries. He has published more than 140 refereed papers on animal genetics and international agriculture. From 1978 through 1996 he was a principal investigator in the USAID-funded Small Ruminant Collaborative Research Support Program and conducted projects in Kenya, Indonesia, and Morocco. He received the ASAS J. R. Prentice Memorial Award for Research in Animal Breeding and Genetics in 1985 and the California Wool Growers Golden Fleece Award for service to the California sheep industry in 1990. Since his retirement, he has continued his programs in international agriculture and expanded his focus to include issues of global food supply. Recently, he chaired the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) international task force that in 1999 published its seminal report titled "Animal Agriculture and Global Food Supply."