Proceedings of the American Society of Animal Science
2000 Sectional Meetings

Articles available from this page were originally presented at symposia held at ASAS sectional meetings in 2000. Articles are posted to the Web site as they are ready for publication. All symposia from which articles were submitted for online publication are listed below, but the associated articles may not yet be posted to the site. Please check the site later for new additions.  Articles are posted in Adobe PDF format and are available without a password. All articles have been peer-reviewed. For purposes of citing any of these articles in subsequent research published in Journal of Animal Science, please use the following format:

Smith, X., R. Jones, and Y. Samuels. 2000. The title of the article here. Proc. Am. Soc. Anim. Sci., 1999. Available at: http://www.asas.org/jas/symposia/proceedings/filename. Accessed {date of accessing Web site}.

2000 Midwestern Section 

Managing Inbreeding in Livestock Populations
PDF "Strategies to manage inbreeding accumulation in swine breeding company nucleus herds: Some case studies" [T.A. Rathje]
PDF "The interaction of selection intensity, inbreeding, depression, and random genetic drift on short- and long-term response to selection: Results using finite locus and finite population size models incorporating directional dominance." [W.M. Muir]

Nutrition and Pork Quality: Oxymoron or Opportunity?
PDF "Muscle metabolism and PSE pork" [B. C. Bowker, A. L. Grant, J. C. Forrest, and D. E. Gerrard]

2000 Western Section 

Visions for U.S. Beef Production Systems
Environmental stewardship in the future: Nutrient management issues and options for beef cattle feeding operations. [M. L. Galyean]
Meeting the challenges of variable environments. [K. L. Launchbaugh and C. W. Hunt ]
Historical overview of beef production and beef organizations in the United States. [C. E. Ball]
Emerging technologies and concerns in the beef industry. [R. A. Bellows]

2000 Southern Section 


Reducing Input Costs for Livestock Production Systems
PDF "Grazing stockpiled bermudagrass as an alternative to feeding harvested forage." [D.L. Lalman, C.M. Taliaferro, F.M. Epplin, C.R. Johnson, and J.S. Wheeler]
PDF "Production and use of stockpiled fescue to reduce beef cattle production costs." [M.H. Poore, G.A. Benson, M.E. Scott, and J.T. Green]