Blake Van Denburgh

Biography

He got interested in the poultry industry when He was 14 years old involved in 4-H.He attended the University of Minnesota studying Animal Science Production with a Poultry Science Certificate obtained from the University of Madison Wisconsin through a two year summer program called the Midwest Poultry Consortium. He started as a Live Production Manager eventually having responsibility of over 4 million chickens. Progressed to a Complex Manager of a 2.2 million offline production facility. Went to work at Daybreak Foods as their Pullet Manager, and assisted with the Avian Influenza disaster of 2015. He transitioned from management to sales after joining Trouw Nutrition. He have gone full circle and am now the Regional Account Manager at Zoetis doing what He did when he interned back in college. It has taken me many years but he have experience in all aspects from a inline liquid plant, offline graded eggs, production of many millions, construction, poultry nutrition, vaccination and pullet rearing.

Research Interest

Poultry, Nutrition