RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, March 23, 2010 – BASF Plant Science L.P. today announced Nick Weihs has joined the company as a NutriDense program manager. In this position, he will play a critical role in developing and managing the NutriDense Grain market in Iowa, eastern Nebraska and southern Minnesota.
“Nick brings a wealth of swine production knowledge and relationship-building expertise to our NutriDense team,” said Kyle McMillan, NutriDense sales manager. “He has a passion for animal agriculture and for helping producers increase their profitability.”
Weihs joins BASF Plant Science with extensive experience managing all aspects of hog production, including feed supply, budget management and customer relations. Prior to joining the NutriDense team, he served as a manager for AMVC Management Services and a career agent at Farm Bureau Financial Services. Weihs graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in Animal Science.
NutriDense is a nutritionally enhanced corn that contains a stacked set of output traits designed to enhance animal feed performance. Seed companies market the product through licensing agreements.
For swine and poultry producers, corn hybrids containing NutriDense Grain traits elevate ration energy content without adding fat, increase essential amino acid content and improve phosphorus availability. At the same time, NutriDense Grain reduces the amount of soybean meal in the ration, which increases digestibility. NutriDense Grain provides better animal nutrition that leads to greater profitability for producers. To learn more about NutriDense, visit www.nutridense.com or follow on Twitter at Twitter.com/NutriDense.
About BASF Plant Science
BASF is the world’s leading chemical company: The Chemical Company. Its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics and performance products to agricultural products, fine chemicals as well as oil and gas. BASF Plant Science – a BASF group company – is one of the world’s leading companies providing innovative plant biotechnology solutions for agriculture. Today, more than 750 employees are helping farmers meet the growing demand for improved agricultural productivity and healthier nutrition for humans and animals. BASF Plant Science has developed an unparalleled gene discovery platform focusing on yield and quality traits in crops such as corn, soybean and rice. Jointly with leading partners in the seed industry BASF Plant Science is commercializing its products. Current projects include higher yielding row crops, nutritionally-enhanced corn for animal feed or higher content of Omega-3’s in oil crops for preventing cardiovascular diseases. To find out more about BASF Plant Science, please visit www.basf.com/plantscience.
About BASF
BASF – The Chemical Company.
BASF Corporation, headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, is the North American affiliate of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF has approximately 16,000 employees in North America, and had sales of $13 billion in 2009. For more information about BASF’s North American operations, or to sign up to receive news releases by e-mail, visit www.basf.com/usa.
BASF is the world’s leading chemical company: The Chemical Company. Its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics and performance products to agricultural products, fine chemicals and oil and gas. As a reliable partner, BASF creates chemistry to help its customers in virtually all industries to be more successful. With its high-value products and intelligent solutions, BASF plays an important role in finding answers to global challenges, such as climate protection, energy efficiency, nutrition and mobility. BASF posted sales of more than €50 billion in 2009 and had approximately 105,000 employees as of the end of the year. Further information on BASF is available on the Internet at www.basf.com.
NutriDense is a registered trademark of BASF Plant Science L.P.
