Animal Research / Nutritional Experience

Ruminant

  • Thirty-five year involvement with milk replacers for dairy calves, calf starters and growing heifer programs.
  • Led dairy program during which rumen escape nutritent products were developed and marketed.
  • Early career centered around beef cattle feeding / dairy beef products and programs.
  • Developed several different milk replacer and feed products for sheep and goats.

Swine

  • Led a leading swine research program for many years.
  • Developed a considerable number of early life products for swine (several patents issued).
  • Conducted g/f pivotal studies for FDA sumission and many sow research studies.

Feed

  • Successful in developing testing procedures and ultimately feed products with improved acceptance.
  • Products impacted included milk replacers, calf starters, swine starters, sheep feeds, and honeybee supplements.

Other

  • Led a feed research program designed to enhance egg quality / owner experience.
  • Devised honeybee research program that led to the deveopment and marketing of a generation of bee supplements (three patent applications filed).
  • Led a yeast product research project with the goal of identifying new yeast / yeast component products.
  • Conducted research that indentified new attributes to direct fed micro-organisms.
  • Developed marketing approaches.