Dr. David Zartman
Professor of Animal Sciences
The Ohio State University Senior Fellow

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

Professor of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University, 1984-present

EDUCATION

New Mexico State University, B.S. in Agriculture (Major: Dairy Husbandry), 1962

The Ohio State University, M.S. (Major subjects: Genetics, Animal Breeding, Physiology, and Statistical Design), 1966

The Ohio State University, Ph.D. (Major subjects: Genetics, Cytogenetics, Immunology, Physiology, and Animal Breeding), 1968

WORK EXPERIENCE

Zartman was reared on a progressive, irrigated, dairy farm in Albuquerque and was a Junior Partner with his father on the dairy farm from 1962-1964. From 1964-1968 he was a research assistant and associate in the Department of Dairy Science of The Ohio State University. From 1968 to 1971 he was an Assistant Professor in the Dairy Department at New Mexico State University, an Associate Professor of Animal Science at New Mexico State University from 1971-1979, and a Professor of Animal Science from 1979 until coming to The Ohio State University as Chairman of the Department of Dairy Science on August 1, 1984. Following a consolidation of the Departments of Animal, Dairy, and Poultry Science in 1994, he was selected as Chairman of the new Department of Animal Sciences. On June 15, 1999, he assumed a faculty assignment of full-time teaching with additional duties in research and Extension.

Other experiences include membership in Toastmasters International from 1969-1971. In 1973 he was a Special NIH Fellow at the Massey University Veterinary School, Palmerston North, New Zealand. In 1976 he was a Fulbright Hayes Lecturer in Malaysia. Other international experiences include external examiner for a Ph.D. candidate at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria and AID Consultant at Makerere University in Uganda. Zartman was part of a consulting team to Russia in 1992 regarding a model farm program developed by Texas A&M. He was team leader for the Farmer-to-Farmer dairy team sent to the Kyrgyz Republic in 1993. In 2004, he served as a consultant to MUCIA on an AID project in Egypt, which is designed to improve Egyptian educational and technological abilities for agriculture. From 1976 to 1984 he was President of the Mary K. Zartman farm corporation. He is a member of various honoraries including Phi Kappa Phi, AAAS Fellow, Alpha Zeta, Gamma Sigma Delta, Sigma Xi, and Outstanding Young Men of America. He completed The Ohio State University’s Management Development Program.

SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS

As a youth, he was a delegate to Boy’s State, a member of the National Honor Society, and received many, special recognitions as a 4-H member. He received his B.S. degree from New Mexico State University with Honors in 1962. He was named to the New Mexico regional Outstanding Young Farmer Award of the Jaycees in 1963 and Outstanding Agriculture Researcher of NMSU in 1984. The NMSU Chapter of Alpha Gamma Rho named him the first outstanding alumnus in 1985. As part of its centennial celebration, NMSU listed him among its top 100 agriculture graduates out of over 5,500 in the history of the university. The Ohio Poultry Association presented Zartman the Outstanding Service Award for 1999. In 2000, the Ohio FFA named him Honorary State Degree recipient. In 2001, he was named Master Grazier by the Great Lakes Grazing Conference. In 2004, he received the Jack Tucker Distinguished Service Award from the Ohio Forage and Grassland Council. The College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at the Ohio State University has presented him teaching and advising awards. He is a certified member of the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists.

Zartman has been active in dairy cattle judging contests and is very active in community and church activities. He has patents with NMSU on an intravaginal telemetry system, which monitors deep-body temperature in female mammals. His research thrusts have included fundamental cytogenetic studies of farm animals and the basic investigation of reproductive efficiency for livestock. For several years, his work has centered upon management intensive grazing and seasonal dairying as he strives to promote ecologically prudent agriculture. Currently, he is researching a novel dairy management concept he calls “Perennial Lactation”. He has authored many outstanding scientific and extension publications. While serving as department chairman for 15 years at The Ohio State University, he continued to contribute to research and teaching along with administrative duties. The group he led included 35 faculty members, 60 technical support staff, 14 clerical and civil service staff, about 430 undergraduate students and about 60 graduate students. Zartman was responsible for livestock operations located at Columbus and Wooster. Currently, Zartman is teaching a University-wide contemporary issues course entitled, “Animals and Their Use By Humans” and a course on Management Intensive Grazing. The contemporary issues course was awarded the Animals and Society Course Award by the Humane Society of the United States in 2002. This award considered over 20 nominations from across North America. Students in his grazing course have generated all the winning essays in the19-22 age group for both the Ohio Forage and Grasslands Council and the American Forage and Grasslands Council for several years.

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE