Feedlot Systems
Feedlot systems research is incredibly important not only in understanding greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation methods, but it also helps better understand production efficiency and animal health. With the addition of expert researchers and our new Climate-Smart Research Facility, we look forward to conducting cutting-edge research about cattle production in feedlot environments.
Mark Branine, Ashley Schilling-Hazlett, Pedro Carvalho, Kim Stackhouse-Lawson, Edilane Martins, Julia Travassos da Silva, Laura Amundson, Chris Ashworth, Mike Socha, and Sami Dridi. Veterinary Sciences, January 2025.
Irene Reis, Welder Angelo Baldassini, Germán Darío Ramírez-Zamudio, Iasmin Myrele Santos Calaça de Farias, Marcos Roberto Chiaratti, Sérgio Pereira Junior, Ricardo Perecin Nociti, Pedro Carvalho, Rogério Abdallah Curi, Guilherme Luis Pereira, Luis Artur Loyola Chardulo & Otávio Rodrigues Machado Neto. BMC Genomics, December 2024.
Cuervo, Wilmer, Camila Gómez, Federico Tarnonsky, Ignacio Fernandez-Marenchino, Araceli Maderal, Federico Podversich, Juan Vargas, and Nicolas DiLorenzo. Animals, October 2024.
Daniela Alvarado, Rodrigo Torres, José Moreira, Yury Granja-Salcedo, Otavio Machado Neto, Luis Artur Chardulo, Mahesh Nair, Pedro Carvalho, Welder Baldassini. Tropical Animal Health and Production, July 2024.
Jessica Pereira, Fernanda Ferreira, Pedro Carvalho, Joao Bittar, Noelia Del-Rio, Marcos Marcondes. Journal of Dairy Science, May 2024.
Juan Vargas, Maya Swenson, Sara Place. Translational Animal Science, April 2024.
Brooke Latack, Pedro Carvalho, Alejandro Plascencia, Richard Zinn. Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science, March 2024.
Jaime Salinas-Chavira, Pedro Carvalho, Brooke Latack, Marcos Ferraz, Martin Montano, Richard Zinn. Translational Animal Science, January 2024.
Elizabeth Dressler, William Shaffer, Kelsey Bruno, Clint Krehbiel, Michelle Calvo-Lorenzo, Chris J Richards, Sara Place*, Udaya DeSilva, Larry Kuehn, Robert L Weaber, Jennifer Bormann, and Megan Rolf. Journal of Animal Science, November, 2023.
*This work was conducted while Dr. Place was still at Oklahoma State University.
Lauren Dean, Anthony Tarpoff, Kirsten Nickles, Sara Place, Lily Edwards-Callaway. Animals, September 2023
Meet Our Feedlot Systems Team:

Pedro Carvalho, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Feedlot Specialist

Juan Vargas, Ph.D.
Sustainable Beef Cattle Systems Postdoctoral Fellow

Sara Place, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Feedlot Systems

Maya Swenson
Graduate Student

Kim Stackhouse-Lawson, Ph.D.
Director

Daniela Alvarado
Research Scholar