The Meet Your Herdmates Sodcast

26 - Frank Mitloehner, PhD

Frank is Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Animal Science of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at University of California, Davis

Frank on twitter - @GHGGuru

CLEAR Center on twitter - @UCDavisCLEAR

CLEAR Center on facebook - https://www.facebook.com/UCDavisCLEAR/

CLEAR Center website (look for "Rethinking Methane")- https://clear.ucdavis.edu/

White, R.R., M.B. Hall. 2017. Nutritional and greenhouse gas impacts of removing animals from US agriculture. http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/11/15/1707322114.full.pdf

EPA Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks  https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks

IPCC Sources and Sinks - https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/05/ipcc_wg_I_1992_suppl_report_section_a1.pdf

25 - Pedro Nunes, PhD

Pedro is currently working in the Department of Forage Plants and Agrometeorology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. He grew up on a cattle and sheep ranch in the natural grassland ecosystem (Pampa) in southern Brazil.
His research has examined the effects of different grazing intensities and stocking rate on pastoral ecosystems, focusing on details of grazing cattle within integrated crop-livestock systems, particularly soybean-beef cattle systems typical of southern Brazil. As the leader of a long-term experiment started in 2001, he studied the effect of different grazing intensities by beef steers on mixed Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) and black oat (Avena strigosa) pastures during the winter period, evaluating forage and animal responses to different defoliation intensities, and the subsequent effects on soybean yields.
Pedro is on twitter @PedroAANunes 
His ResearchGate - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pedro_Arthur_De_Albuquerque_Nunes

The paper we mentioned - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13593-020-00643-2
His major professor's (Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho, PhD) ResearchGate - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paulo_De_Faccio_Carvalho2

24 - Paul Beck, PhD

Paul Beck was born in Guthrie, OK and raised on a wheat and livestock farm. 
He received a B. S. and M. S. degrees in Animal Science from Oklahoma State University in 1990 and 1993, respectively. 

Afterwards, Paul returned to manage the 1,600-acre wheat, stocker cattle, and cow-calf farm. 
In 1997, Paul became a herdsman managing the cow-calf and stocker cattle research at the University of Arkansas Southwest Research & Extension Center (SWREC) and received his Ph.D. in Animal Science in May 2003, joining the faculty of the University of Arkansas at the SWREC in July of 2004 with a 60% research and 40% Extension appointment. 

Paul was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008 and Professor in 2012. His research has focused on the study of integrated grazing systems for sustainable, economical, and environmentally sound forage and beef production. This research includes forage-based systems for cow-calf and stocker cattle operations in the Southeastern United States, backgrounding diets for growing cattle, the effects of pre-feeding management on carcass quality, and the environmental impact of livestock production. 

Paul moved to the Oklahoma State University Department of Animal and Food Sciences in August 2018 and is currently the state extension beef cattle specialist stocker-feedlot nutrition, and the Dennis and Marta White Endowed Chair.

23 - Dr. Brian Lenzkes, MD

Dr. Brian Lenzkes, MD

Brian has been practicing Internal Medicine since 2003. In July of 2020 he relocated to San Diego Christian College and started a Direct Primary Care and metabolic health clinic.  He’s been using lifestyle changes to help patients improve their health and reduce their medications.  He also hosts two podcasts (Low Carb MD and Life's Best Medicine) which are focused on helping people to live healthier and happier lives.  His main focus has been on disease prevention and reversal through diet and lifestyle changes. 

Low Carb MD podcast - https://lowcarbmd.com/
Life's Best Medicine podcast - https://lifesbestmedicine.com/

22 - Fred Hahn

Fred Hahn

Fred has been involved with exercise ever since he became a member of The Charles Atlas Club when he was 10 years old. He is professionally certified by the American Council on Exercise as a personal trainer since 1993.

He began training clients in the early 1980s at several of NYC's leading health clubs, including the Equinox and New York Health and Racquet Club. Fred began developing his Slow Burn system as a physical therapy aide at the Hospital for Joint Diseases Sports Medicine Center in NYC. In 1994, Fred co-founded a private physical therapy clinic located at New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. As Director of clinical exercise, Fred ran the clinic until 1996. In June of 1998, after nearly 10 years of continuous refinements and application, Fred founded and established Serious Strength, a Slow Burn personal training and rehabilitative exercise center in New York City.

In an effort to provide the best nutritional guidance possible for his clients, Fred initiated an intellectual partnership with the authors of the New York Times bestselling book Protein Power, Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades and together authored The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution (Jan. 2003, Random House). It is currently in its ninth printing and is one of the bestselling fitness books in Random House history. His new book Strong Kids Healthy Kids teaches parents and their children how to lift weights safely and eat healthfully.

He co-authored (with Drs. Michael R. and Mary Dan Eades) “The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution” (2003). In 2008 his second book “Strong Kids, Healthy Kids” was published.

https://www.slowburnpersonaltraining.com/

YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/slowburntraining

21 - Jimmy Henning, PhD

Extension Forage Specialist, University of Kentucky.
Academic brother. Fellow forage geek. Photographer.

What are "Land Grant" Universities?
What's the Cooperative Extension Service?

"You're a lot smarter if you listen a lot more than you talk." (I wonder what he meant by THAT? ;-) )
"When we've got an answer and nobody's doin' it, then you better ask 'Why?'."

Jimmy Henning is Extension Professor and Extension Forage Specialist in the Department of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Kentucky. His extension program focuses on hay and haylage production and nutritional quality as well as pasture establishment and management. He is a co-founder of the Kentucky Grazing Schools and the UK Forage Variety Testing program. He led in the implementation of forage variety trials for grazing tolerance to cattle and for preference by horses. He is part of a forage team that is actively serving the Kentucky horse industry through the Equine Pasture Evaluation program. Dr. Henning is a graduate of the University of Georgia and the University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture.

Jim Gerrish, American GrazingLands Services - https://www.americangrazinglands.com/

KY Forages YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/VTForages

Hay Kings facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/237012536788906
Regenerative Grazing facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/RegenerativeGrazing

Jimmy's Etsy store - https://www.etsy.com/shop/JCHPhoto

20 - L Amber O'Hearn

"Eat Meat, Not Too Little, Mostly Fat"

L. Amber O’Hearn, Sodsister and polymath
Amber has an eclectic background, with academic publications in several fields including theoretical mathematics, cognitive psychology, computational linguistics, and more recently, evolutionary nutrition and biology. She has been studying and experimenting with low-carb, ketogenic diets since 1997, and is particularly interested in evolutionary constraints and interspecies differences. Amber has been eating a nearly plant-free diet since 2009. 
Amber's book - https://facultativecarnivore.com/
Amber on twitter - @KetoCarnivore
"Survival of the Fattest" by Stephen C. Cunnane - https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/5769
AHS12 Georgia Ede MD, "Little Shop of Horrors? The Risks and Benefits of Eating Plants" - https://youtu.be/YdRBFiBWQZQ

19 - Ævar Austfjörð

Why can't food without a label be nourishing? 
We can all be an agent for change.

Meet Ævar Austfjörð, butcher, cook, and soon a farmer!

Ævar was born in the small town of Húsavík in northern Iceland.  He lived there until he moved away to learn to be a butcher. After 10 years or so, he switched to cooking. He worked mostly in steakhouses until he got into hospital cooking along with studying "special needs cooking." Ævar is qualified as a diet cook. Ævar got into the low carb living in 2012 following a stroke when he was only offered pills to recover but he decided to do his own research.

Ævar is married to Ása Sif and they have 4 children, two grandchildren, and two dogs. Soon they will have a few cattle chickens and goats!

Iceland Carnivore Tribe-Kjötætur - https://www.facebook.com/groups/149116042507997

18 - Rob Cook

Rob Cook, Vice Chair of National Grazing Lands Coalition

Rob grew up in a small ranching and farming community in the Texas Panhandle. He received a B.S. and a M.S. in Range and Wildlife Management from Angelo State University. After graduation Rob spent 15 years consulting land managers on improving/maintaining ecological function on grazing lands across the Southern Great Plains.

Currently, Rob is the Director for Business Development for Bamert Seed Company where he is responsible for developing the strategic plan to deliver high quality native grass, forb, and legume seeds to the agriculture and reclamation industries.

Rob and his wife Landri raise their 2 children in Farwell, Texas. He helps to manage the grazing plans for the stocker operation on the Bamert Seed farms. The Bamerts graze stockers on their farm of over 4,000 acres with the goal of diversifying the operation while improving soil structure, biotic function, and minimizing erosion. He and his wife are also involved in the management of her family’s dry-land farming and stocker operations in Eastern New Mexico.

Bamert Seed Company https://bamertseed.com/

The National Grazing Lands Coalition https://www.grazinglands.org/
Find a coalition near you https://www.grazinglands.org/find-a-coalition/
Society for Range Management https://rangelands.org/

17 - Belinda Fettke

"It's not about the science."

Belinda Fettke is a former Registered Nurse, photographer and the proud co-founder of 'Nutrition For Life' in Launceston which provides medically based nutritional care around Tasmania and Australia. 

Belinda is also a staunch supporter of the health benefits of Low Carb, Healthy Fat eating and in recent years has taken a more central role in advocating LCHF following the investigation of her husband, Dr. Gary Fettke, by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). The investigation focused on Gary’s qualifications to give nutritional advice.

This investigation (which lasted for more than two years) resulted in Gary being issued a ‘caution’ and being advised; ”In particular, that he does not provide specific advice or recommendations on the subject of nutrition and how it relates to the management of diabetes or the treatment and/or prevention of cancer.” Gary was later cleared of all charges and issued a formal apology from AHPRA.

Belinda’s site - https://isupportgary.com/

Belinda’s 2019 Low Carb Down Under presentation - 'Nutrition Science: How did we get here?' https://youtu.be/FTe-eitOJGA

Banta, J. E., Lee, J. W., Hodgkin, G., Yi, Z., Fanica, A., & Sabate, J. (2018). The global influence of the Seventh-day Adventist Church on diet. Religions, 9(9), 251. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/9/251