2000 Ruminant Nutrition Research Award

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American Feed Industry Association

Richard A. Zinn

Richard A. Zinn has published 56 refereed papers, 40 abstracts, 118 popular presentations or reports, and 3 book chapters during the past 10 years. He has advised six Ph.D. students and seven M.S. students. He has made numerous presentations to nutrition conferences and symposia. His fluency in Spanish makes him a popular speaker on nutrition programs in Mexico and throughout Latin America. One of his primary research contributions has been the determination of effects of steam flaking of various grains on digestive function and performance in feedlot and lactating dairy cattle. His extensive research in the area of protein nutrition provides a broad base of data on factors affecting ruminal microbial growth, site and extent of protein digestion, and metabolizable protein requirements of feedlot cattle. He has also contributed greatly to our understanding of the utilization of dietary fat, indicating higher net energy values for fat than were previously available in feed composition tables. His iterative approach for determination of the net energy value of feeds has yielded valuable, practical information on a wide variety of feedstuffs. Dr. Zinn has made a significant and lasting contribution to ruminant nutrition, technology for feeding cattle, and the feed industry.