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Kansas Profile – Now That’s Rural: Tim Brown, nutritional consultant

Let’s go to Inner Mongolia in China. A dairy operation is seeking to upgrade its nutrition program so as to improve milk production, production efficiency, and cow health. The expert who is here to help is a dairy feed nutrition consultant from halfway around the globe in rural Kansas.

Livestock nutrition consultant, Tim Brown is based in Westmoreland, Kansas, but has clients all over the world. Pictured are Brown (at left) and clients in Saudi Arabia.

Tim Brown is this nutritional consultant. He grew up in suburban Virginia with loose connections to production agriculture. He studied animal science at Virginia Tech and then considered graduate school.

“I was looking for a graduate program somewhere far away, at a university with a solid reputation,” Tim Brown said. Ultimately, he chose Kansas State.

Tim moved to Manhattan and studied ruminant nutrition under K-State animal sciences professor Ben Brent. Tim wanted to live out in the country, so he borrowed Dr. Brent’s car and went driving through the countryside looking for a place to rent. “When I would see an apparent vacant house, I stopped in nearby to inquire about it and people would tell me who might have a house to rent,” Tim said. “On more than one occasion, I was told, `We’re getting ready to sit down for a meal. Why don’t you join us?’ To myself I was thinking, `Boy, these Kansans are nice people,’” he said.

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