{"id":28481,"date":"2025-02-14T12:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T17:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=28481"},"modified":"2025-02-14T12:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T17:18:05","slug":"dr-darryl-ragland-named-as-purdue-veterinary-medicine-extension-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/dr-darryl-ragland-named-as-purdue-veterinary-medicine-extension-director.php","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Darryl Ragland Named as Purdue Veterinary Medicine Extension Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Purdue Professor of Food Animal Production Medicine Darryl Ragland has been selected as the director of extension for the College of Veterinary Medicine. In that role, he will oversee the activities of the college\u2019s extension service, which shares practical applications of Purdue research with livestock producers in Indiana and around the world, and enables Hoosier farmers to raise animals using healthy and sustainable livestock production practices.<br><br>Dr. Ragland is a longtime College of Veterinary Medicine faculty member, who earned his DVM degree at Tuskegee University before coming to Purdue to complete his residency in food animal medicine. He then continued on to earn his PhD and join the faculty in 1999. In addition to his faculty appointment, Dr. Ragland serves as head of the Production Medicine Section in the <a href=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Purdue University Veterinary Hospital<\/a>.<br><br>Dr. Ragland splits his time between clinical practice, teaching, and research. His research interests include antimicrobial resistance and alternatives to antimicrobials in swine production; nutrient digestibility and physiology (swine and poultry); swine lameness and locomotor diseases; and swine reproduction and physiology.<br><br>Dr. Ragland\u2019s educational responsibilities include teaching swine production medicine and nutrition to veterinary students. He also played a key role in creating a new food animal medicine course for which he is now instructor-of-record, and has been actively involved in animal husbandry courses.<br><br>The Purdue Veterinary Medicine Extension team includes specialists in equine, beef, swine, dairy, animal welfare and veterinary toxicology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/19pig_073-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Darryl Ragland is a professor of food animal production medicine and runs the Swine Field Service of the Purdue Farm Animal Hospital\" class=\"wp-image-28483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/19pig_073-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/19pig_073-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/19pig_073-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/19pig_073-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/19pig_073-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/19pig_073-1320x880.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/19pig_073-scaled.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Darryl Ragland is a professor of food animal production medicine and runs the Swine Field Service of the Purdue Farm Animal Hospital<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purdue Professor of Food Animal Production Medicine Darryl Ragland has been selected as the director of extension for the College of Veterinary Medicine.  In that role, he will oversee the activities of the college\u2019s extension service, which shares practical applications of Purdue research with livestock producers in Indiana and around the world, and enables Hoosier farmers to raise animals using healthy and sustainable livestock production practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,17,29],"tags":[620,56,2274],"class_list":["post-28481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-in-the-news","category-our-people","tag-darryl-ragland","tag-homepage","tag-purdue-extension"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28484,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28481\/revisions\/28484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}