Dr. Peter R. Ferket

is a Williams Neal Reynold’s Distinguished Professor of Nutrition and Biotechnology in the Prestage Department of Poultry Science at North Carolina State University. Dr. Ferket joined North Carolina State University in 1988, where he is responsible for research, extension education and outreach, and undergraduate and graduate teaching.

He has devoted much of his extension and research efforts on nutrition, feed formulation, and feed manufacturing factors that affect the growth and health of meat poultry. He is recognized for his work on perinatal nutrition and development, skeletal development and immune function, enteric health, pro-nutrient feed additives, nutritional factors that affect the yield and quality of meat, nutritional value of food industry co-products, and nutrient management. His teaching activities focus on vitamin metabolism, mineral metabolism, poultry nutrition, feed mill management, ingredient quality control, and feed formulation.

Dr. Ferket is a committee member of the team writing the new edition of the Nutrient Requirements for Poultry (National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Math), and serves on the modeling committee for the National Animal Nutrition Program. Dr. Ferket serves several international poultry production companies as a consulting nutritionist, he is a frequent speaker at animal and poultry conferences, and has authored over 550 publications and eight patents, one patent pending, and one software disclosure that estimates the value of a feed additive or formulation change on poultry production.