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Gary has recently joined Kent Nutrition Group Sales as a Business Development Manager within our Innovative Solutions team. We are excited to have Gary’s vast industry experience and knowledge to promote animal health and performance through nutrition. Gary will be instrumental in supporting our industries that are producing safe, sustainable animal derived protein while improving …
Mike Speaker – Territory Sales Manager — Mike Speaker worked on his grandfather’s hog farm when he was 12 years old, riding his bike a half-mile to help tend to the 100 Hampshires that they were raising in Southern Indiana. Today Speaker lives on that same property, in his grandparents’ old farm house, which has …
Growing up, Dr. Smith owned and showed pigs from his grandparent’s farm in Indiana. Now, as Kent’s Senior Technical Swine Nutritionist, he works with producers to formulate customized feeding programs that improve their profitability. Read the full article to find out how.
Who knew that an organic material that’s millions of years old and found in the Southwest, namely New Mexico, would completely transform animal nutrition by helping to reduce stress, improve health and maximize performance? We did. Or at least, we figured it out. For 13 years, Kent Nutrition Group has been researching a black, natural …
Dr. Michael Edmonds, VP Swine Nutrition Michael Edmonds has been studying swine nutrition pretty much his whole life. For the last 30 years, he has conducted research on farm (and from a strategically-cluttered desk) at Kent Nutrition Group. All of his work – the tests, trials and analysis – are directed toward one main objective: …
October is National Pork Month — Before he ever went to work in the feed industry, Randel Raub studied animal science. A lot. Finding nutritional physiology particularly interesting, he earned his Ph.D. in animal science and went on to teach the subject for 12 years at Kansas State University. And then he made a big …
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Tara Howell – Senior Manager, Sales Support As a member of the sales support team at Kent Nutrition Group, Tara Howell works cross-functionally with departments throughout the company. Her team is responsible for employee and dealer training, locating stores where customers can purchase products, providing recommendations for particular lines of feed, commodity ingredient sales and …
Bill Warnstaff – Fulfillment Services Coordinator When he first started working for Kent Nutrition Group 21 years ago, Bill Warnstaff’s job was to maintain one of the biggest visual identifiers for Kent Feeds: its familiar black, red and yellow signs. “I was on the sign truck that went all around the Midwest and I put …
Meet Kent Heckman – KNG Pricing Manager Figuring out the best price to charge for quality products can be a tricky business. Kent Heckman calls it “a balancing act” that can make or break a company’s bottom line just as easily as it can attract or alienate valued customers. Heckman is well-aware of this. As …
Jason Lents – Senior Director of Operations Jason Lents grew up raising cattle and showing livestock in Southwest Iowa, using Kent feed because he always appreciated the quality that came with it. But until he went to work for the company as an engineer five years ago, he didn’t fully appreciate the level of attention …