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Each year, we spend a lot of time talking with people working throughout pork production. Compensation is always part of those conversations, but salary alone does not tell the whole story. Our 2026 Swine Live Production Salary Survey received 136 responses. The results were reviewed before analysis, with incomplete or unreliable responses excluded from the [...]
R&D and Product Development positions can look similar on paper and operate very differently inside the company. Our 2026 Animal Health & Nutrition Technical Professional Salary Survey included 10 respondents working in research, product development, R&D, and related technical development functions. They came from Animal Health and Nutrition suppliers, genetics and breeding companies, animal [...]
Beef employers often assume that experienced managers are difficult to recruit because most of them are not actively looking. That is usually true. It does not mean they are unwilling to listen. Our 2026 Animal Health & Nutrition Technical Professional Salary Survey included 19 Beef respondents within Technical/Sales Support: nine solo contributors and 10 [...]
Some feed and grain companies assume a hard-to-fill mill manager role is just a market problem. Sometimes it is. The candidate pool is tight. Strong mill managers are usually employed. Many are not actively looking. Relocation is harder than it used to be. Compensation expectations have changed. Rural locations can quickly narrow the field. All [...]
One thing we see quite often is that companies spend most of the interview deciding whether they like the candidate. Sometimes they forget that the candidate is making the same decision about them. That matters, especially when the interviewee is already employed and doing well. They may not be actively looking for another job. [...]
Feed and pet food nutrition roles are often grouped when companies discuss compensation. The work inside those positions can be very different. Our 2026 Animal Health & Nutrition Technical Professional Salary Survey included 14 Feed & Pet Food Nutritionists and Formulators. Five primarily focused on Dairy, three on Poultry, two on Swine, two on Equine/Pet/Companion [...]
Hiring an experienced dairy technical or commercial professional can feel difficult even when there appear to be plenty of people working in the market. Part of the reason is visibility. Our 2026 Animal Health & Nutrition Technical Professional Salary Survey included 47 respondents whose primary species focus was Dairy, making Dairy the largest species group [...]
Compensation problems often appear late in a search. Let’s change that and save everyone time. A company identifies a strong candidate, spends several weeks interviewing, gets everyone comfortable with the fit, and then discovers the financial expectations on both sides are farther apart than anyone realized. By that point, a lot of time has been [...]
There is a leadership problem brewing in the feed and grain industry, and most companies feel it before they talk about it.It shows up when a mill manager retires, and no one is ready to step in.It shows up when an assistant manager is dependable but not prepared to run the whole operation.It shows up [...]
Every few years, I share the same interview question. Not because I ran out of ideas. Though some days, that would be a fair accusation. I keep coming back to it because after 35 years in recruiting, I still believe it is the best interview question I know. The question comes from Lou Adler, [...]
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