Ronald P Lemenager

Professor of Animal Sciences

Department: Animal Sciences
Phone: 765.494.4817
Fax: 765.494.9346
Office: LILY 3-108
E-mail: rpl@purdue.edu

Area of Expertise: Ruminant Nutrition and Management, Beef

Education: B.S., University of Illinois; M.S. and Ph.D., Oklahoma State University

Research Program

Beef cow-calf nutrition and management

Energy and protein requirements of gestating and lactating cows
Nutrition x reproduction interaction

Beef feedlot nutrition and management

Nutritional and management factors affecting beef marbling and tenderness
Nutritional and management factors affecting muscle and adipose accretion

Teaching

ANSC 39300 - Animal Industry Travel Course
ANSC 44100 - Beef Management
Member of Purdue Teaching Academy and the Purdue Book of Great Teachers.
Received both the Purdue University Outstanding Teacher and Counselor Awards in addition to the American Society of Animal Science Midwest Section Teaching Award.

Extension Program

Development of beef production and marketing systems that will consistently meet consumer expectations for high quality beef and increase producer profits
IQ+Beef (an advanced Beef Quality Assurance program)
Indiana Farm Fresh Beef (a certified freezer beef program)
Beef Ventures Group (a producer driven group evaluating new beef business opportunities)
Working with producers to fine-tune nutrition and management

- Recent Publications

Gunn, P. J., R. P. Lemenager, M. C. Claeys, & S. L. Lake (2008). Effects of distiller’s dried grains with soluble and crude glycerin on performance and carcass characteristics in early weaned beef calves. J. Anim. Sci, 59:290-293.

Richardson, M., S. Lake, R. P. Lemenager, & N. Pyatt (2008). Natural source vitamin E supplementation and reproductive efficiency in beef cows. J. Anim. Sci., 59:339-342.

Musselman, A. F., M. L. VanEmon, P. J. Gunn, C. P. Rusk, M. K. Neary, R. P. Lemenager, & S. L. Lake (2008). Effects of crude glycerin on feedlot performance and carcass characteristics of market lambs. J. Anim. Sci., 59:353-355.

Arias, R. P., R. P. Lemenager, L. J. Snyder, & S. L. Lake (2008). The effects of co-ensiling wet distiller’s grains plus solubles with corn silage on growth performance of bred beef heifers during late pregnancy. J. Anim. Sci., 59:350-352.

VanEmon, M. L., A. F. Musselman, P. J. Gunn, M. K. Neary, R. P. Lemenager, E. J. Scholljegerdes, & S. L. Lake (2008). Effects of added dietary protein and fat on subcutaneous adipose tissue of finsishing lambs when fed differing levels of dried distiller’s grains with solubles. J. anim. Sci., 59:299-304.

Lemenager, R. P. (2006). Where Have We Been? – Where Are We Going?. 13th Annual Totusek Lectureship.

Lemenager, R. P. (2006). The Evloving Beef Industry. Beef Focus.

Lemenager, R. P. (2005). Value Added Production and Marketing. 13th Annual Totusek Lectureship.

Lemenager, R. P. (2005). Indiana Producers Should Be Alert for Grass Tetany. eHay Weekly.