Greg Mantz

Research Assistant
Department of Wildland Resources
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-5230
gkmantz@cc.usu.edu

JQL 227

(620) 583-0248

I was raised on a crop/livestock farm in west-central Kansas.   Our principal enterprise was a grass-based dairy operation, which was converted to a beef operation in 1992.  We also a kept a few sheep and chickens and did some farming to provide forage for the livestock operation. I graduated with a Bachelors degree in Animal Science from Kansas State University in 1990 and completed a MS in Range Science at Utah State University in 1993.  From 1993 to 2003 I worked number of different jobs in the livestock industry working for ranches, experiment stations and commercial cattle feeding operations.  I am currently a Range Science Ph.D. student at Utah State University working under Fred Provenza.  My research involves using Polyethylene Glycol as a feed supplement to enhance cattle consumption of Sericea lespedeza in the Flint Hills of Kansas.  Sericea lespedeza is “miracle forage” that has turned into a “miracle weed” in the tall grass prairie of Kansas and Oklahoma.  My future plans are somewhat up in the air right now, but I am thinking about applying to Veterinary School.