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CarnivoryCon 2019: Peter J. Ballerstedt — “Reading the Environmental Hoofprints“

Dr. Ballerstedt earned his bachelors and masters degrees at the University of Georgia and his doctorate at the University of Kentucky. He has an extensive background in forage production, utilization and forage-based livestock production systems and was the forage extension specialist at Oregon State University from 1986 until 1992. Dr. Ballerstedt communicates the messages that the optimal human diet health is grass-based not grain-based, and that the only truly sustainable form of agriculture is the production of livestock products from grazed forages. He is a transition agent standing between consumers and producers, hoping to: help them improve their health; change how they each think about nutrition; help producers make changes in their production practices; help Oregon become a lead…