[1] ASAS members are involved in university research, education, and extension as well as in the feed, pharmaceutical, and other animal-related industries.
"[1] Organizing ASAS (originally called the American Society of Animal Nutrition) began on July 28, 1908, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
A committee of animal nutritionists decided to present a plan for the new society during the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago that fall.
When the society first officially gathered on November 26, 1908, 33 charter members represented 17 state experiment stations, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Canada.
[1] Since 1998, ASAS been holding their annual meetings in convention centers jointly with the American Dairy Science Association (ASDA).
ASAS regularly supports speaker exchanges with the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP).
[7] ASAS also supports the USDA National Agricultural Library's Animal Science Image Gallery.