Dr. Joe D. Hancock was born in 1956 and raised on a dry-land cotton farm in West Texas. He earned a B.S. degree in Agricultural Education and a M.S. degree in Animal Science from Texas Tech Univ. and then completed a Ph.D. in Swine Nutrition in 1987 at the University of Nebraska. He has been on the faculty at KSU since that time.

Dr. Hancock’s assignment is 50% teaching and 50% research. He teaches nutrition classes, councils students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and currently is advisor to the Block and Bridle Club and APO (a campus-wide service fraternity). His research activities have centered on factors that limit fat, protein, and carbohydrate utilization in weanling pigs and processing techniques to maximize nutrient utilization and minimize nutrient excretion in finishing pigs and sows. These activities have resulted in publication of more than 350 abstracts, technical reports, symposia proceedings, journal articles, and book chapters. These publications have resulted in invited presentations in 26 countries in Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, Central America, and Canada.