Grazingland Management
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Jerry W. Stuth, Kelleher
Professor Grazingland Management |
Dr. Stuth is a Professor and Grazingland Management Specialist with the Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management at Texas A&M University. He received his BS (1970) in Range and Wildlife Management and MS (1972) in Range Science from Texas Tech University, and PhD (1975) in Rangeland Resources from Oregon State University. He joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1975 as an Assistant Professor; he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1981 and to Professor in 1985. He was awarded the Joan Negley Kelleher Professorship in 1994. His research program is focused on grazing ecology of large herbivores and resource management planning. Emphasis is on understanding the diet selection process, landscape level grazing processes and development of computerized decision support systems for improved grazingland management.
Dr. Stuth has teaching responsibilities in undergraduate and graduate courses pertaining to ranch and resource planning, managerial analysis and grazing dynamics of herbivores.
The current focus of his research includes development of advanced decision support technology for regional and ranch level planning as part of the Ranching Systems Group. Special emphasis is being placed on object-oriented hydrologic based forage production systems capable of servicing regional vegetation management advisory systems and on-ranch operational destocking systems. Advanced enterprise investment analysis systems are being designed to service policy analysis for grazingland development. Field research programs are concentrating on development of integrated brush and grazing management systems with focus on fire, mechanical treatments and mixed cattle/goat enterprises. Diet selection and landscape use processes are the primary thrusts of the project. Nutritional management systems are being developed based on fecal profiling via near infrared spectroscopy technology linked to nutritional decision support systems.