Our Team | Sara Place, Ph.D.
Contact: sara.place@colostate.edu
Associate Professor of Feedlot Systems
Dr. Sara Place is an expert in livestock systems sustainability with over a decade of experience in academia, industry associations, and private industry. Most recently, Sara has been the Chief Sustainability Officer at Elanco Animal Health where she provided technical expertise on sustainability issues to customers and supported Elanco’s Healthy Purpose. Prior to Elanco, she was the senior director for sustainable beef production research at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and an assistant professor in sustainable beef cattle systems at Oklahoma State University. She received her PhD in Animal Biology from the University of California, Davis, and a BS in Animal Science from Cornell University. Sara is a native of upstate NY where she grew up on a dairy farm.
Recent Publications:
- Vargas, J. D. J., Swenson, M., & Place, S. E. (2024). Determination of gas flux and animal performance test duration of growing cattle in confined conditions. Translational Animal Science, https://doi.org/10.1093/tas/txae056.
- Raynor, E.J., Schilling-Hazlett, A, Place, S, Vargas, J, Stackhouse-Lawson, K, Thompson, L, Johnston, M, Jorns, T, Beck, M, Kuehn, L, Derner, J. (2024). Snapshot of Enteric Methane Emissions from Stocker Cattle Grazing Extensive Semiarid Rangelands.
- “Heritability and variance component estimation for feed and water intake behaviors of feedlot cattle”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.
- Beck MR, Thompson L, Rowntree JE, Place S, et al. U.S. manure methane emissions represent a greater contributor to implied climate warming than enteric methane emissions using the global warming potential* methodology. Frontiers in sustainable food systems. 2023;7.
- Dean L, Tarpoff AJ, Nickles K, Place S, Edwards‐Callaway LN. Heat Stress Mitigation Strategies in Feedyards: Use, Perceptions, and Experiences of Industry Stakeholders. Animals. 2023;13(19):3029-3029.
- Place, S, McCabe CJ, Mitloehner FM. Symposium review: Defining a pathway to climate neutrality for US dairy cattle production. Journal of Dairy Science. 2022;105(10):8558-8568.
- Derner JD, Wilmer H, Stackhouse-Lawson KR, Place, S, Boggess M. Practical considerations for adaptive strategies by US grazing land managers with a changing climate. Agrosystems, geosciences & environment. 2023;6(1).
- Place, S. E., McCabe, C. J., & Mitloehner, F. M. (2022). Symposium review: Defining a pathway to climate neutrality for US dairy cattle production. Journal of Dairy Science, 105(10), 8558-8568. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2021-21413.