Evans, Nikia
Cloward, Jennifer
Ward, Robert E.
van Wietmarschen, Herman A.
van Eekeren, Nick
Kronberg, Scott L.
Provenza, Frederick D.
van Vliet, Stephan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8992-555X
Article History
Received: 12 December 2023
Accepted: 23 August 2024
First Online: 30 August 2024
Competing interests
: S.V.V reports current and/or recent grant support from USDA (2020-38640-31521; 2021-67034-35118; USDA-2022-58-3064-2-007), the Turner Institute of Ecoagriculture, The National Cattlemen’s Association, Perdue Foods LLC, Applegate LLC, the Bionutrient Institute, and the Greenacres foundation. S.V.V also reports having received speaker fees and travel reimbursements for presentations linking food production systems to human nutrition. F.D.P. reports receiving honoraria for his talks about behavior-based management of livestock. All other authors reported no competing interests.
: This work evaluated general practices of a commercial ranch and feedlot with no intervention by the research team and animals were harvested in USDA-inspected facilities. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) approval was therefore not necessary.