title: From the Feed Trough: Essays and Insights on Livestock Nutrition in a Complex World
author: Woody Lane Ph.D.
description: Woody Lane, PhD, is a nationally-known livestock nutritionist and forage specialist who owns the independent consulting firm, Lane Livestock Services. He is an expert on sheep and beef cattle nutrition, pasture management, and grazing techniques. He teaches courses in livestock nutrition and forage management to ranchers in western Oregon and facilitates a number of rancher study groups. He also helped to develop the classic <i>SID Sheep Production Handbook</i>, served as the operations manager for the American <i>National Sheep Improvement Program</i>, and created the instructional videos <i>Lambing Time Management</i> with veterinarian Don Bailey. Lane earned his doctorate and masters degrees in animal nutrition at Cornell University and has published more than twenty-five research articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He writes the popular monthly column From the Feed Trough . . . for <i>The Shepherd</i> magazine. He currently lives in Roseburg, Oregon, with his wife, Jeri Frank.
zlib_text: nutrients
  Article
  Cropland Footprints of Australian Dietary Choices
  Bradley Ridoutt 1,2,*
  , Kim Anastasiou 3, Danielle Baird 3, Javier Navarro Garcia 4
  and
  Gilly Hendrie 3
  1
  Commonwealth Scientiﬁc and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Agriculture and Food,
  Clayton South, Victoria 3168, Australia
  2
  Department of Agricultural Economics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
  3
  CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia; kim.anastasiou@csiro.au (K.A.);
  danielle.baird@csiro.au (D.B.); gilly.hendrie@csiro.au (G.H.)
  4
  CSIRO Agriculture and Food, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland 4067, Australia; javi.navarro@csiro.au
  *
  Correspondence: brad.ridoutt@csiro.au; Tel.: +61-3-9545-2159
  Received: 17 March 2020; Accepted: 23 April 2020; Published: 25 April 2020
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  Abstract:
  Food systems vitally depend on croplands, which are a scarce natural resource.
  Croplands are also heterogeneous, diﬀering in productive capability and in env