Award:
Outstanding Early Career Agribusiness Award
Univeristy:
JBS Live Pork LLC
Year:
2021
Section Awarded:
Midwest
Kyle F. Coble, Outstanding Early Career Agribusiness Award
Sponsored by: BASF
Dr. Kyle F. Coble is the Director of Nutritional Services for JBS Live Pork, Greeley, CO. In his role, Dr. Coble is responsible for all aspects of nutrition for 165,000 sows and 3.8 Million market pigs, annually. He provides leadership for a team of 50 employees that develop and implement nutrition programs, oversee internal and external feed milling operations for more than 1.5M tons of feed, manage feed ordering and delivery, complete internal R & D efforts, establish ingredient specifications for procurement and other related activities. The robust research program that Dr. Coble and his team at JBS Live Pork have developed works with multiple universities such as Kansas State, Iowa State, and University of Arkansas, while also working with private industry leaders in technology such as Amazon, Tensor IoT, and SixGill. Dr. Coble is an adjunct professor in the Animal Science Department at Kansas State University and has also provided nutrition and research consultation for production systems across the globe. Originally from Arkansas City, KS, Dr. Coble graduated from Oklahoma State University in 2010 and 2012 with a B.S. and M.S degree in Animal Science and K-State in 2015 with his Ph.D. in Swine Nutrition. After completing his Ph.D., he joined New Fashion Pork, Jackson, MN as a Nutritionist, Research Manager, and Production Specialist where he completed more than 150 research projects with over 300,000 pigs. In 2018, he was hired by JBS Live Pork, as the Director of Nutritional Services, to internalize and develop their internal nutritional services department that he leads today.