Leonard Lauriault

Scientist
Plant and Environmental Sciences
New Mexico State University
Mexico

Biography

Education: M.S. in Crop Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. May 1989. Thesis: The effect of thiamin supplementation on the ingestive behavior of beef cattle grazing endophyte-infected tall fescue. B.S. in Agriculture, Berea College, Berea, KY. May 1980. Employment Record: Forage Crop Management Scientist and Superintendent of the Agricultural Science Center at Tucumcari (since July 2012). College Professor, July 2009 to Present. College Associate Professor, July 2004 to June 2009. College Assistant Professor, January 2002 to June 2004 Agricultural Science Specialist, January 1997 to December 2001. New Mexico State University College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences. Las Cruces, NM.

Research Intrest

Forage; general agronomy, Irrigated hay and pastures, alfalfa and other forages, grazing

List of Publications
Lauriault, L.M., M.A. Marsalis, and S. Angadi. 2011. Soil type affected cowpea forage nutritive value. Forage and Grazinglands. (http://www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/sub/fg/brief/2011/cowpea). Contreras-Govea, F.E., M.A. Marsalis, L.M. Lauriault, and B.W. Bean. 2010. Forage sorghum nutritive value: A review. Forage and Grazinglands. doi: 10.1094/FG-2010-0125-01-RV.
Lauriault, L.M., M.A. Marsalis, and D.M. VanLeeuwen. 2012. Planting date affects rainfed sorghum forage yields in semiarid, subtropical environments. Forage and Grazinglands.
Macolino, S., Lauriault, L.M., Rimi, F., Ziliotto, U. (2013). Phosphorus and potassium fertilizer effects on alfalfa and soil in a non-limited soil. Agronomy Journal, 105, 1613-1618.
Schutte, B. J., Lauriault, L.M. (2015). Nutritive value of field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) roots as a potential livestock feed and the effect of Aceria malherbae on root components. Weed Technology, 29, 329-334.
Angadi, S., Umesh, M. R., Contreras-Govea, F., Annadurai, K., Begna, S. B., Marsalis, M. A., Cole, A., Gowda, P. H., Hagevoort, G. R., Lauriault, L.M.* (2016). In search of annual legumes to improve forage sorghum yield and nutritive value in the Southern High Plains. Crop, Forage, & Turfgrass Management. https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/cftm/pdfs/2/1/cftm2015.0182.