Emily Stackhouse is a research manager in livestock and environment at Alltech. Growing up on a beef and sheep ranch in Northern California developed her interest in livestock industry research. Dr. Stackhouse earned bachelor's and master's degrees in animal science from Oklahoma State University, and she earned a Ph.D. from UC Davis, specializing in beef systems management and ruminant nutrition. Her interests focus on measures of beef sustainability that can broaden the discussion for beef’s place in the diet, such as feed efficiency, water use, human-edible feed conversions, protein quality and GHG emissions.