Industry, education converge at ISU complex

Feed and grain industry partners fund $30-million-complex to educate next generation of commercial agro-industrial talent.

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Elise Schafer
December 30, 2022
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Most feed mills measure productivity by tons of feed output, but Anthony Ewing, associate director and operations manager of theIowa State UniversityKent Feed Mill and Grain Science Complex, said people are his main product.

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