Imagining, developing the feed industry’s future workforce [VIDEO]

Watch Dr. Adam Fahrenholz, associate professor of feed milling at North Carolina State University, offer his thoughts on how feed producers can secure the industry's next generation of leaders at the 2023 Feed Mill of the Future Conference.

Jackie Roembke
September 6, 2023
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Labor shortages are an evergreen challenge for the feed industry. Realizing that finding reliable, capable and eager feed mill employees today is especially difficult, what is your company’s plan for meeting its employment needs in the future? What specialized skill sets will feed production require? How will new technologies affect the types of employees that can and should be hired?

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