Jason Smith

Jason is a native of northern Virginia, where he developed a passion for beef cattle at an early age. He received his B.S. with a focus in beef cattle management and M.S. with a focus in ruminant nutrition and feed manufacturing from West Virginia University before spending 2 years as a Ruminant Nutritionist and Biologist for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Medicated Feeds Team. Jason then received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech with a focus in applied nutritional management of beef cattle before spending 4 years as an Extension Beef Cattle Specialist for the University of Tennessee. Jason currently serves as an Extension Beef Cattle Specialist for Texas A&M AgriLife Extension in Amarillo, TX where his efforts are focused toward developing and supporting educational programs that benefit beef cattle producers and other industry stakeholders. Jason also works to conduct applied and demonstrational research in beef cattle nutrition in order to link fundamental discovery to application in the field, and answer production-relevant questions that would otherwise remain unanswered.