- BSc in Agriculture, Washington State University, 1951
- MSc in Agriculture, Washington State University, 1952
- PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1955
- ScD in honorem, University of Milan, Italy, 1992
- Member, Comparative Nutrition Society
- Fellow of the American Institute of Nutrition
Professor Peter J. Van Soest worked 13 years as a research chemist
for the Federal Government.
While at the USDA, Beltsville, MD he developed the ADF and NDF
methods for fiber, and the procedures for the determination of lignin
in forages.
Moving to Cornell in 1968 as Professor of Animal Nutrition, he
interfaced among ruminant nutrition, human nutrition, ecology, forage
agronomy, and international agriculture.
He has worked and/or lectured in 31 countries of the world, and
with graduate students from many of them. He is specialized in laboratory
procedures, laboratory and field evaluation of forages, browses
and other plants and their rates of digestion.
He is author of Nutritional Ecology of the Ruminant, Cornell University
Press, 1994, second edition. He and his students have been involved
in digestion balances, passage, and feeding behavior of more than
50 species of herbivores.
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