Today’s episode will cover the Importance of feed execution and how a production nutritionist values it.

“Our main goal, as swine nutritionists, is to get the right feed, to the right place, at the right time.” – Dr. Kyle Coble.

Our guest is Dr. Kyle Coble, another bright mind of the Global Swine Industry. Dr. Coble is a Swine Nutritionist for JBS, USA, and before that worked for New Fashion Pork in Jackson, MN. In 2010, he earned his B.S. in Animal Science at Oklahoma State University followed by a M.S. in Animal Science with an emphasis in Swine Nutrition in 2012. He graduated from Kansas State University with a Ph.D. in Swine Nutrition in 2015, investigating the effects of different by-product withdrawal strategies to decrease negative impacts on carcass yield and copper supplementation in finishing pigs. In 2014, Dr. Coble was awarded the International Ingredient Corporation Pinnacle Award for Outstanding Young Swine Nutrition Student. In 2015, he was selected as an American Society of Animal Science Young Scholar.

What you will learn:

• How he got involved in pig production and the development of his career;
• Definition of Feed Execution;
• The importance and the biggest challenges of Feed Execution;
• The value of feed execution;
• How to structure a nutrition department and the kind of team roles needed;
• How he gets the production staff on board with feed execution;
• What separates successful swine professionals from those that are not.

Kyle’s favorite swine-related book: Swine Nutrition (Lewis and Southern)

Kyle’s favorite book unrelated to swine: Grit

Edited by Lauro Faccin