The author has had a general background in animal nutrition, specifically, with ruminant livestock and which started by coursework and research on the subject of this book at the University of New ...view moreThe author has had a general background in animal nutrition, specifically, with ruminant livestock and which started by coursework and research on the subject of this book at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney. He also spent some time at the U. of New England, Armidale, N.S.W. in Australia. where he resided internally and then left and remained externally as a doctoral candidate with the Australian Overseas Post-graduate Research Scholarship (OPRS) before eventually completing this compilation in a monograph several years later on. He has been nominated for an honorary doctoral degree from England in the U. K. in the past but chose to decline. He is listed in the Marquis Who's Who in the World 2014 in the U.S.A. This author has in the past published on ensilage, protein digestion and intake, rec-DNA applications to low-quality feeds utilization and the improvement of temperate and tropical ensilage and rumen digestion with biotechnology. The author is currently a web-based or Internet researcher and continues to research and publish, amongst others, in his area and specialty of low-quality feeds utilization and animal production. He now resides in the municipality of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.view less