Dr. Robbi Pritchard, noted feedlot nutrition and management professor from South Dakota State University, has been contracted to help guide the University of Nebraska Panhandle Research Feedlot north of Scottsbluff until a replacement is hired for Dr. Mat
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SCOTTSBLUFF – Dr. Robbi Pritchard, noted feedlot nutrition and management professor from South Dakota State University, has been contracted to help guide the University of Nebraska Panhandle Research Feedlot north of Scottsbluff until a replacement is hired for Dr. Matt Luebbe, who recently resigned as feedlot management and nutrition specialist.
The arrangement was announced by Dr. Jack Whittier, Research and Extension Director for the Panhandle Center. Whittier said Pritchard will provide scientific, research and management guidance to the research feedlot and assist in research and operational activities on a consulting basis.
He said, “Dr. Pritchard’s role will be to serve as a bridge between Matt Luebbe’s departure and the time it takes in the university system to recruit, interview, and relocate a new specialist.”
During this roughly one-year agreement period, Pritchard will communicate closely with Whittier and Clint Krehbiel, Head of the UNL Department of Animal Science, as well as Panhandle feedlot personnel and appropriate faculty both in Lincoln and Scottsbluff, pertaining to the research and extension activities at the Panhandle Feedlot, according to Whittier. “We have a very skilled feedlot crew at the Panhandle feedlot who are capable of handling the day-to-day operations. Robbi’s role will be to help guide the research and use the amazing feedlot research capacity of the feedlot to its fullest during the transition.”