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Dr. Joseph P. Cassady is the South Dakota Corn Endowed Dean of the SDSU College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences. He was SDSU Animal Science Department Head from 2013 until being appointed Dean in 2022, and concurrently Interim Dairy and Food Science Department Head from 2020 to 2022. He spent 12 years on the North Carolina State University faculty. Dr. Cassady has maintained a key focus on increasing research productivity and doubled graduate student enrollment in the Dept. of Animal Science. He provides oversight of operations and budgets for six livestock units, a meat teaching/research laboratory, a feed mill and nutrition, physiology and genetics research laboratories. He also provided strategic direction for the SDSU Rodeo Team, and livestock, meats, & wool judging teams. Dr. Cassady’s leadership and rapport with stakeholders helped raise over $14 million, to complete both a $7.4 million Swine Education and Research Facility and $6 million Cow-Calf Education and Research Facility.
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Dr. Joseph P. Cassady
South Dakota State University |
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Dr. Glenn C. Duff received his B.S. from Northwest Missouri State University, M.S. from the University of Arkansas, and Ph.D. from New Mexico State University (NMSU). He has a long and distinguished career as a scientist, teacher, and administrator at NMSU, the University of Arizona, and Montana State University. Glenn has taught applied nutrition, statistics, and beef and dairy production and management courses. He has published 91 peer-reviewed articles and numerous published papers and abstracts, and he has been director or co-director of grants valued at $10.2 million. Glenn’s extensive service to the Western Section of ASAS includes terms as President and Section Director. At the national level of ASAS, he recently served as President-Elect, President, and Past-President. Glenn is active in his community through leadership of the Rotary Club and other organizations. Glenn and Donna Knudson have a farm south of Clayton. Their son, Tim, resides in Santa Fe, NM.
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Dr. Glenn C. Duff
New Mexico State University |
