J. P. Fontenot
Active Emeritus Faculty
Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0306

Education:

Dr. Fontenot's program focuses on research and teaching in animal nutrition. Research includes basic and applied aspects of ruminant nutrition. Research areas from which graduate students usually select thesis/dissertation research are nutritional value of underutilized by-products as feedstuffs, forage utilization, and mineral metabolism and utilization. Work on underutilized by-products includes research in processing and nutritional value of broiler litter, caged layer waste, swine waste, cattle waste, slaughterhouse waste and seafood processing waste. Research is conducted with low and high quality forages, emphasizing forage/livestock systems, including work on low input sustainable crop-livestock systems. In research on minerals, emphasis has been on magnesium requirement and metabolism, utilization of sulfur in sulfur fertilized forages and certain mineral interactions.

E-mail: cajunjoe@vt.edu
Phone:  (540) 231-5136
FAX:    (540) 231-3010
 

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