NutriQuest Welcomes New Nutritionist

Jan 12, 2016

From www.AgPR.com for NutriQuest

Josh Flohr, Ph.D., has joined NutriQuest as a Nutritionist serving the Midwest region.

He will be responsible for assisting clients in enhancing and maintaining nutrition programs for their swine herds with the goal of helping them accomplish their production objectives. Dr. Flohr received his PhD in swine nutrition this fall from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. He is originally from Maryland but has spent the better part of the last decade in Texas and Kansas earning his collegiate degrees in agriculture and animal sciences. Josh currently resides in Waukee, Iowa with his wife, Sara.

NutriQuest

NutriQuest, headquartered in Mason City, Iowa, USA, delivers targeted breakthrough solutions to animal producers via nutritional and non-nutritional products, services, and technologies. Our industry-leading animal nutrition and production experts scrutinize products and technologies to ensure that all NutriQuest solutions meet or exceed our rigorous standards for efficacy, cost justification and practicality. At NutriQuest, our success comes from helping producers realize improved profitability through optimized technologies and efficient operation based on strategic production goals.

For more information contact NutriQuest at (641) 424-4798 or on the web at

http://www.nutriquest.com.

Source: AGPR

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