Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus Celebrates 50 Years of Research and Excellence
Published: June 17, 2008
Source : Grain Net
The Innovation Campus has come a long way since its original move from Missouri to Elk River in 1958.
The campus had humble beginnings with a mere 20 employees, but Cargill officials say they always had aspirations for growth.
After a $2.4 million expansion in 2006, the Innovation Campus now sits on 900 acres and employs 100 people locally (with another 30 globally) including 26 Ph.D. nutritionists who specialize in species ranging from cattle and swine to domestic dogs and cats, and even fish and shrimp.
“For half a century, the dedicated employees at our Innovation Campus have been making amazing advances in nutrition and animal science,” said Mike Craig, technology director for both the Innovation Campus and Cargill’s Animal Science Technology Development Center.
“Over the years our researchers have shifted focus from production management techniques to exploration of nutrient values and metabolism.
"Now we’re exploring how developments in animal nutrition can be applied to human nutrition.”
The Cargill Innovation Campus is the main technology center for Cargill’s global animal nutrition businesses, which today operate in 26 countries.
In the past year alone, over 1,600 people toured the facility, journeying from as far away as Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia. One of the most recent additions to the campus came in 2006 with construction of an aquaculture facility.
Now, researchers in the land-locked Midwest can study aquatic species from all over the world to determine their nutritional requirements
Significant achievements over the years include pioneering the use of computers in animal agriculture.
Cargill scientists were using them as early as the 1960s to optimize diets for livestock and poultry.
They continue to innovate with computers today, most recently patenting a process for creating customized animal feed formulations.
Other advances include the development of AutoCalc™ technology to automatically calculate levels of energy, amino acids and other key nutrients in animal feed.
More recently the Innovation Campus developed OptiCook™, a patent-pending technology developed to assure optimum “cook” for Loyall™ pet food.
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16 de febrero de 2013
Very good work. Continue your research so that many can benefit from it. Maybe you can accomplish more in the years to come.
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