R. Dean Boyd is the former technical director and nutrition leader for the Hanor Company and its Triumph Foods group (2002–2020). His team managed the nutrition program for 85,000 sows and 2.35 MIL pigs. He is an adjunct professor at North Carolina State and Iowa State Universities in animal nutrition.

Aaron Gaines completed his bachelor’s in agriculture, and his masters and doctorate in animal science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has worked in the livestock feed industry for nearly 20 years and as a managing partner of Ani-Tek, he is responsible for product development and providing technical support to customers on new product technologies for livestock.

Bart Borg leads the feed manufacturing and nutrition team supporting Passel Farms production. He received his degrees from Iowa State University (B.S.) in 1982 and South Dakota State University in 1988 (M.S. and Ph.D.). Bart manages a family farming business in northern Iowa that includes 16,000 contract finishing spaces along with a few row crop acres.

Sarah Muirhead is managing director of the Farm Progress Livestock Group, which brings together BEEF magazine, National Hog Farmer and Feedstuffs. She has more than 40 years of editorial and communication experience in the feed industry and animal agriculture. Sarah grew up directly involved in her family’s seed and pork production operation.