- Ag Leader Technology recently broke ground on a building expansion at their facility in Ames, Iowa. The 96,000 square foot addition will more than double the size of the current facility and create approximately 58 new jobs in the Ames area.
- Lew Lewis was recently promoted to Senior Key Account Manager for Kemin AgriFoods North America. In this role, Lew serves as the Kemin AgriFoods representative to Kemin customers in the areas of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. Lew joined Kemin in 1998 as a commercial sales team member. Prior to joining Kemin, he served as a plant controller and then as a buyer for Ralston-Purina Co.
- Downes-ONeill announced the agenda for its 2008 Outlook Conference, which will be focused largely on what some analysts are describing as a looming crisis in the production, pricing, and distribution of food supplies across the globe. The 5th Annual Outlook Conference is to be held June 18-19 in Chicago.
- Novus International Inc.,awarded the 2008 Novus Research Fellowship (NRF) last month. The recipient of the 2008 NRF award was Dr. Ma Deying from the Institute of Animal Nutrition, Northeast Agriculture University in Harbin, China. Dr. Deyings winning proposal is related to alternatives to in-feed antibiotics in commercial poultry operations.
