Dr. Matthew Lucy is Professor of Animal Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia.  He received a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.S. from Kansas State University, and a Ph.D form the University of Florida. He was a postdoc at Monsanto (St. Louis, Missouri) before accepting a faculty position at the University of Missouri in 1994. Dr. Lucy’s current research program examines the metabolic processes regulating the endocrinology and fertility of dairy cows and explores practical methods that evolve from this research. He is a recipient of the ADSA Pfizer Animal Health Physiology Award (2003) and the ASAS Animal Physiology and Endocrinology Award (2010). Dr. Lucy served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Dairy Science from 2014 to 2019 and was the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of JDS Communications (2020 to 2023). Lucy became a Fellow of the ADSA in 2019 and received the ADSA Award of Honor in 2020. He currently serves as the host of the ADSA podcast “Dairy Digressions”.