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Midwestern Section ASAS 1985 Younger Animal Scientist Research Award

The 1985 recipient of the Midwestern Section Younger Animal Scientist Research Award is Dr. J. Joe Ford. He was born September 3, 1944, and grew up on a general livestock and grain farm near Orient, Iowa. He received his B.S. degree in Animal Science in 1966 from Iowa State University and served in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1969. After completion of his Ph.D. degree in reproductive physiology from Iowa State University (1972), he was awarded a National Institute of Health postdoctoral fellowship and spent two years at the Laboratory of Human Reproduction and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School. Since 1974 he has been a research physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service at the Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, Nebraska.

Dr. Ford's research program is directed primarily at understanding the processes of sexual development in swine. From his studies he has identified the pig as a species unique from any other mammal investigated so far relative to the timing of differentiation of reproductive behavior.