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Mr. Philippe Monvoisin has been appointed to Cooperative Research Farms Board of Directors, representing CRF member MiXscience. Philippe joined MiXscience six years ago and is currently the Export Manager for North America / Latin America. He comes from a French family of dairy farmers and has always worked in the agricultural sector since graduating as an agricultural engineer from the Ecole supérieure at d'Angers, France, specializing in dairy cattle breeding. Phillipe first worked as a Dairy Farm Manager / Administrator in Latin America (Chile, Ecuador) for three years, and then after moving back to France he worked for an agricultural international business, specializing in animal feed additives, for more than ten years. He also has five years of experience as an Animal Husbandry educator. Mr. Monvoisin will be replacing Mr. Michel Layus who is retiring from his current position. Mr. Layus had served on the Board of Directors since 2021, when MiXscience became a member of the CRF organization.

CRF is a multi-national organization of feed manufacturers in North America and Europe. For seventy years, CRF members have worked together conducting more than 3,300 nutrition and management related research trials for the benefit of their customers. The members of CRF include Kalmbach Feeds, Inc., Upper Sandusky, Ohio; MiXscience, Bruz, France; Sollio Agriculture, Montreal, Quebec, and Tennessee Farmers Cooperative, LaVergne, Tennessee. The combined scope of the CRF membership represents 12.3 million metric tons of final feed equivalent tons, 42-member owned feed mills manufacturing feeds of the highest quality, 1,564 employees working to provide superior animal nutrition products and 91 highly skilled individuals employed in research, development, and technical support.

For more information regarding CRF contact David Ott, General Manager, Cooperative Research Farms at (804)-897-8612 or visit the CRF website at www.crfarms.org.