BioZyme® Inc., Offers a Variety of Career Opportunities & Feed Industry Jobs

Do you love animals? Do you care about people? Do you want to ensure a safe and wholesome food supply for the world?

If you answered yes to these questions and are looking for a rewarding and challenging career, BioZyme® Inc. is hiring. BioZyme, headquartered in Saint Joseph, Missouri, is a global leader in the animal health and nutrition industry.

Our People

“Care that comes full circle” is the company motto, and that care is spread throughout the world, starting with its people. That is what motivates 28-year employee Kevin Glaubius every day in his role.

BioZyme has a different business model that focuses on quality and consistency, and in the feed industry that is a rarity. I can feel confident that if I help a dealer get a customer on a product or program, they are going to experience the same performance time after time because our products do what we say they do,” said Glaubius, Area Sales Manager in Nebraska.

Available Feed Industry Jobs

Currently, there are positions available on the career listing in several interest and skill areas, including:

  • Administration
  • Fermentation
  • Marketing
  • Sales

“We encourage those people interested in working at BioZyme to watch the website, as we continually update the careers page. Applying is easy, and we also rely heavily on the Culture Index to ensure that we place the qualified candidates in the positions that they are most comfortable in,” said Caity Norton, Senior Manager of Human Resources.

BioZyme Benefits

Glaubius added that in addition to helping people and their animals, he enjoys the benefits that BioZyme offers its employees.

As an employee-owned company, each employee has the opportunity to buy into BioZyme. He has also witnessed the opportunities that employees have gained in their skills with the growth over nearly three decades.

“When I started, there was one sales manager, one marketing person. Now, there are opportunities to gain experience and new skills or work in a variety of roles if you already have those skills. We have our own lab and testing facilities and are committed to improving the facilities when we can,” he said.

Join The Biozyme Family

If you are interested in feed industry jobs or joining the BioZyme family—or you know someone who would make an ideal team member—please visit BioZyme Careers.

A Day in the Life of a BioZyme® Employee Morgan Weinrich

Title: Missouri Area Sales Manager (ASM)

Morgan Weinrich

Number of Years at BioZyme: 1 year & 9 months

Describe a “typical” day in your job: As an Area Sales Manager, no day is ever the same. It can vary from an office day working from home, traveling to see dealers & their customers, or working at a trade show. Most of my weeks are filled with dealer face-to-face visits.

As an ASM, I am the dealer’s go-to for BioZyme products. Each day can change from listening to dealers’ challenges, helping them decide what products to suggest for one of their customers or educating them on new products.

What is the most interesting thing you have ever done at BioZyme: My second interview for my position with BioZyme was held at the Centennial Airport. Alan Lee had asked me to meet him there for an in-person interview. Unbeknownst to me, I’d also be walking in to meet the then CEO of the company, Bob Norton.

Share a funny story about one of your days at work: I have a few memories from my time in CO, WY & UT instead of a funny story.

One of my first visits with Keith Micke was to Scott Ranches in Douglas, Wyoming. The winds were easily blowing 50-60 MPH that day. Keith made sure that it was my job to open and close all the gates that day.

In Fall 2022, I was determined to make a trip to see Johnson Grain in Afton, WY. Mind you, this trip takes 8 hours to get to. I beat it down the road late one night to make it halfway and drive the other half the next day. Pure luck that I woke up to a few inches of snow on the ground, and the pass to Afton CLOSED. My only decision was to bust it back to Laramie before I got stuck on I-80 in a snowstorm.

I always have great memories of sales meetings with our BioZyme family, Superior Sales, the Wyoming & Colorado State fairs, and getting to know all of my dealers on a personal level.

What has been one of the biggest challenges: Hands down, the biggest challenge I have is traveling efficiently. As an ASM, we are pulled in many different directions to be in many different places at once.

For the last year and a half, I covered Colorado, Wyoming & Utah for BioZyme. Dealerships in Wyoming are spread across the state, and it takes a 1,400-mile trip to see all of them. This is a challenge that I will continue to work through as the Missouri ASM as well.

Why is care that comes full circle important to what you do?  When I stepped into the role of Colorado, Wyoming & Utah Area Sales Manager, I never imagined the kind of personal relationships an ASM develops with their dealers.

In March of this year, I was offered the position as the Missouri Area Sales Manager. One of the toughest phone calls I had to make was to Keith Micke, a dealer in Wyoming. In typical Keith fashion, he replied, “well, I love you like a daughter, so I wouldn’t want anything else for you.” To me, that’s care that comes full circle.

What is something you enjoy doing outside of the office? Golfing, attending livestock shows and spending time with my family & friends.

Bear Creek Country Stores Maximizes Marketing Potential

“If a customer can’t see it, they won’t buy it.”

This simple sentiment by Bear Creek Country Store Manager Drew Tolbert summarizes why he puts so much strategy in their stores’ retail merchandise displays. With two locations, in Leonard and Bells, Texas, Tolbert said the retail displays their stores create are vital to product awareness and education.

The Bear Creek Strategy

With so much experience serving his community and marketing to their needs, we couldn’t help but ask Drew for some tips and tricks. Here’s what he had to say.

It’s All About Timing

At Bear Creek, end caps are rotated about every two weeks; however, they feature one brand for the entire month. Their featured brand has a prime display location, and that display is left for the month before it is returned to its regular shelf or warehouse location.

Tolbert said, after a month of being featured, customers will know to look for it or feel comfortable asking for that particular product line.

Displays are made based on timing and scenarios that are happening. For instance, during chick days, poultry products are featured. During the recent local “picnic weekend” pet food and poultry products were featured and on sale.

Signage Is Key

Tolbert said posting big “featured price” signs on products draw customers in. Even if the prices are regular retail prices, customers will still feel good about purchasing a featured product, regardless of price.

Prioritize Detail

“When we put the products in front of the customers, they are likely to ask more questions. Some will just be satisfied with the price. Others will want more information,” Tolbert said.

That is where information like sell sheets and product guides can come in useful for a display. Typically, he likes to post just the price, and have the customer interact with him or his staff so they can ask questions and perhaps cross sell or upsell.

Use ODC as a Resource

Tolbert said he learned during the recent Dealer Retreat the value of the Online Dealer Center (ODC) for materials to liven up his in-store displays. He can access brand logos, sell sheets, product brochures and more to print from the ODC, and he adds these to his displays.

Partnerships Matter

Bear Creek Country Store is an ag retailer. It is also a family-owned and operated store in two rural communities. That is why it has partnered with the local chambers of commerce.

“We try to have informative and friendly events to try to promote products, interact with customers and build our brand,” Tolbert adds.

Tolbert says a partnership like this helps get feet in the door, and helps the local customers realize that they are more than just a feed store. They run promotions through the chamber, and when the chamber of commerce has a big event like Picnic Days that draws a crowd, they see the benefit, too.

Another partnership Tolbert encourages is with the Area Sales Manager. He said his ASM Chris Kyle is another great resource who he can bounce ideas with. Chris sees a lot of different stores. In addition to sharing product knowledge, he also can share marketing ideas with Tolbert.

For More Information About Profitable Partnerships, Turn to BioZyme

From retail displays to online marketing and texting, Bear Creek Country Store is mastering its marketing efforts. Thanks for sharing your marketing advice with us, Drew. We count ourselves lucky to benefit from a partner so committed to care that comes full circle!

If you’re looking to partner with BioZyme for marketing support or resources, learn more about marketing tools we have available.

Improving Egg Production with a Novel Postbiotic

By César Ocasio Vega, Ph.D. 

Recently, a novel category of feed additives has been introduced: postbiotics. The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) defined postbiotics as a “preparation of inanimate microorganisms and/or their components that confer a health benefit on the host.”  

All over the world, egg production is gaining popularity and importance, mainly fueled by increasing egg consumption. Therefore, there are some challenges that producers need to overcome to fulfil consumer demands. The most urgent challenges are related to eggshell quality and hen life span. Maintaining normal physiology and good health of the laying hen is essential to produce high-quality eggs for longer periods of time. Dietary interventions like the feeding of fermented feeds, fiber, probiotics, prebiotics and postbiotics are acceptable means for influencing the gut microbiota and its metabolic activity. In laying hens, inclusion of postbiotics in the diet to maintain/improve productivity and egg quality has been researched and has led to the development and commercialization of a new feed additive, AO-Biotics® EQE (Egg Quality Enhancer).  

AO-Biotics® EQE is a fungal postbiotic produced using patent pending technology and specifically indicated to improve the number of sellable eggs, egg mass, and productive lifespan of laying hens. De Juan et. al. (2021) studied the effects of the dietary inclusion of 50 grams of EQE per metric ton of feed on the performance and egg quality traits of hens from 15 to 43 weeks of age. In this study, the addition of EQE significantly reduced the incidence of shell-less eggs. In addition, from 15 to 21 weeks of age, the feeding of EQE increased egg production by 9% and improved feed conversion ratio (FCR) by 8%. Motivated by these results, de Juan et. al. (2022) performed a second study extending the laying period of hens to 65 weeks of age. In agreement with previous observations, the inclusion of EQE improved all major production traits at the peak of production, including increasing egg mass by 2%, egg production and egg weight by 1%, and FCR by 2%.  

Several field trials have subsequently evaluated the inclusion of EQE in the diets of commercial laying hens. In agreement with findings reported by de Juan et. al. (2021 and 2022), the inclusion of EQE under commercial conditions improved egg mass, the number of sellable eggs per hen and the productive lifespan of the flock. In eight field trials involving more than 400,000 laying hens, the supplementation of the AO-derived postbiotic resulted in approximately 2% more egg mass, 3% improvement in egg production and 3% more sellable egg per hen. On average, a reduction of 24% in the mortality of the flocks was also observed, demonstrating that EQE improved the productive lifespan of the laying hens. Overall, field trial results were in line with findings found by de Juan et. al. (2021 and 2022) in controlled studies and support the proposition that EQE can contribute to improving eggshell quality, egg mass and productive life span of laying hens.

BioZyme® Inc., Offers a Variety of Career Opportunities & Feed Industry Jobs

Do you love animals? Do you care about people? Do you want to ensure a safe and wholesome food supply for the world?

If you answered yes to these questions and are looking for a rewarding and challenging career, BioZyme® Inc. is hiring. BioZyme, headquartered in Saint Joseph, Missouri, is a global leader in the animal health and nutrition industry.

Our People

“Care that comes full circle” is the company motto, and that care is spread throughout the world, starting with its people. That is what motivates 28-year employee Kevin Glaubius every day in his role.

BioZyme has a different business model that focuses on quality and consistency, and in the feed industry that is a rarity. I can feel confident that if I help a dealer get a customer on a product or program, they are going to experience the same performance time after time because our products do what we say they do,” said Glaubius, Area Sales Manager in Nebraska.

Available Feed Industry Jobs

Currently, there are positions available on the career listing in several interest and skill areas, including:

  • Administration
  • Business Development
  • Fermentation
  • Marketing
  • Outreach (Call Center)
  • Sales

“We encourage those people interested in working at BioZyme to watch the website, as we continually update the careers page. Applying is easy, and we also rely heavily on the Culture Index to ensure that we place the qualified candidates in the positions that they are most comfortable in,” said Caity Norton, Senior Manager of Human Resources.

BioZyme Benefits

Glaubius added that in addition to helping people and their animals, he enjoys the benefits that BioZyme offers its employees.

As an employee-owned company, each employee has the opportunity to buy into BioZyme. He has also witnessed the opportunities that employees have gained in their skills with the growth over nearly three decades.

“When I started, there was one sales manager, one marketing person. Now, there are opportunities to gain experience and new skills or work in a variety of roles if you already have those skills. We have our own lab and testing facilities and are committed to improving the facilities when we can,” he said.

Join The Biozyme Family

If you are interested in feed industry jobs or joining the BioZyme family—or you know someone who would make an ideal team member—please visit https://biozymeinc.com/careers.

Dealer Emphasizes Sustainability, Sells Stacks of Empty Orange Tubs

What started as a family tour around Dr. Bob Black’s ranch landed as an opportunity and an idea for sustainability. Bob, DVM and cattle rancher, and his wife, Shirley, had “massive stacks” of the empty VitaFerm® and Vita Charge® tubs around their ranch, when family toured last Thanksgiving. At the suggestion of a sister-in-law from Texas who said that someone could surely use these empty tubs, Bob decided to start offering them for sale on the popular Facebook Marketplace starting in spring 2023.

“My goal is to see an orange tub in every yard in Wichita,” chuckled Katie, Black’s daughter, who works full-time at the Elk County Vet Clinic where Dr. Black practices, while she also studies nursing.

Katie said their family lives about an hour from Wichita, and that is where a majority of tubs end up. With her grandmother and an aunt living in Wichita, those driveways often serve as the pick-up point for the tubs that get used for starter gardens, storage bins, water recycling vestibules, cleaning yards of sticks and leaves and more.

“My dad does most of the Facebook postings, listings and monitors all of that,” Katie said. “Some people will come to the clinic or contact him directly because they have heard about all these tubs.”

Dr. Black shared that he enjoys recycling the tubs.

“Having a second or third use for the plastic tubs is great and helps recycle a product that otherwise might not be used,” said Dr. Black.

BioZyme dealer Bob Black is creating sustainable uses for empty tubs and providing new customers a product that they can readily use. That’s care that comes full circle.

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BioZyme® Dealers Grow Animal Health and Supplement Businesses to Earn Achievements

BioZyme® Inc. recognized the following dealers for their outstanding sales, action, years of business and diversification in 2022 at the BioZyme Dealer Retreat June 6-7, 2023, in St. Joseph, Missouri. These awards recognize dealers that are taking action to grow their animal health and supplement businesses. BioZyme was thankful to bring the Dealer Retreat back in-person for 2023 to recognize these “out of this world” dealers on their 2022 achievements.

Central Farm Supply of Kentucky – Kentucky

  • Top Overall Dealer
  • Second Place VitaFerm® Dealer 
  • Second Place Gain Smart® Dealer 
  • Second Place Backyard Boost® Dealer 

K Triangle Feed – Wyoming

  • Second Place Overall 
  • Second Place Action Dealer 
  • Second Place Overall Individual

Basore Cattle Company – Missouri 

  • Top VitaFerm® Dealer 

Twin Rivers Vet Supply – Texas

  • Top Gain Smart Dealer 

Associated Feed & Supply Co – California

  • Top Sure Champ® Dealer
  • Top DuraFerm® Dealer 

Cowell Ag – Illinois 

  • Second Place Sure Champ® Dealer 

Sullivan Supply, Inc – Iowa

  • Top Vita Charge® Dealer 

Stockmen’s Feed Bunk Inc Texas

  • Second Place Vita Charge® Dealer 

FarmVet.com, Inc – Tennessee

  • Top Vitalize® Dealer 

Surrey International – New Jersey

  • Top Backyard Boost® Dealer 
  • Second Place Vitalize® Dealer 

Heritage Cooperative Ohio

  • Second Place DuraFerm® Dealer

Boyce Feed and Grain – Texas

  • Top Action Dealer

Jeff Cluxton & Sons Ohio

  • BioZyme Dealer for 50 years 

Hess Ranch – Louisiana

  • BioZyme Dealer for 52 years

Cottor Farms Wisconsin

  • Family of Brands Diversification Award

Producers Coop Texas

  • Second Place Family of Brands Diversification Award 

The BioZyme network is comprised of more than 2,000 independent dealers from coast-to-coast who provide access to the BioZyme family of brands, including VitaFerm, Gain Smart, DuraFerm, Vita Charge, Sure Champ, Vitalize, and Backyard Boost. To locate a dealer near you, visit: https://biozymeinc.com/find-a-dealer/

Central Farm Supply of Kentucky
K Triangle Feed
Basore Cattle Company
Associated Feed
Heritage Cooperative
Cluxton Family
Missy Hess
Cottor Farms

A Day in the Life of a BioZyme® Employee Mike Wadle

Title: Additive Territory Manager

Number of Years at BioZyme: 14+

Describe a “typical” day in your job: The beauty of the job is that there is no typical day; one day I am flying all day to get to appointments on either coast, the next day driving to meet with prospects/customers, and then the following day being stuck in a hotel room because of the weather working on the computer. 

What is the most interesting thing you have ever done at BioZyme: When starting to work at BioZyme, having to travel without all the technology of today and trying to find ranchers, farmers, customers and business prospects using a plat map and road atlas.

Share a funny story about one of your days at work: Traveling 2 hours to the airport for a 10 am flight and then going through security and realizing it was a 10 pm flight. It pays to double and triple check schedules!!!

What has been one of the biggest challenges: Working the territory because they are usually big and then not getting down when the word “NO” is heard more than “YES” when asking for the order.  There are so many opportunities in a territory and never giving up.

Why is care that comes full circle important to what you do? Understanding what the prospect/customer/distributor wants and needs and helping them fulfil that request. I have always said we help them; they will help us and as we need more boots on the ground it has worked out

What is something you enjoy doing outside of the office? It has been watching kids compete as that phase of life is moving onto being a Grandpa and working around the family farm with the cattle.

Dealer Spotlight: Cottor Farms Excels in Diversification

“We wish we would have gotten started with BioZyme® products sooner,” said Leo Sanftner, of Cottor Farms, Osceola, Wisconsin.

That’s a pretty strong sentiment from an 11-year veteran dealer who sells everything from VitaFerm® Concept•Aid® for breeding success to Vita Charge® Liquid Boost® to show rabbit customers, and even mixes AO-Biotics® Amaferm® into their own custom layer feed.

Sanftner, long-time employee of Cottor Farms, said he was first introduced to the BioZyme family of brands by former ASM Dorothy Orts at a bull sale when she recommended the Vita Charge tubes to jump start newborn calves. As they say, the rest is history.

According to Sanftner, once they saw how well the calves responded to the Amaferm in the Vita Charge, they started expanding their product offering to other BioZyme brands. Today, he said they have a majority of their customers on the fly control mineral for the summer. Cottor Farms mixes their own feed and serves both Wisconsin and Minnesota, being so close to the state line. They will average three tons of layer feed per week that includes Amaferm.

“We have very few dairy cows up here. Most of our customers have beef cattle, hogs and chickens. We cater to the smaller customers. We are smaller; they trust us,” Sanftner said.

Their mission is to go above and beyond when it comes to customer care. Sanftner said he will deliver feed up to 100 miles away for customers who need it, primarily larger customers and those who have show animals. They have also created signs for their show livestock and show rabbit families with the same statement: “Go above and beyond with Cottor Farms.”

Cottor Farms also supplies Maple Hill Feed & Farm Supply in Maple, Wisconsin, with their BioZyme products, including Backyard Boost® products and layer feed they needed for a recent Chick Days event. He said they will also conduct horse and beef clinics at the store; however, most of the promotion and education comes from him visiting personally with customers or through their social media. A new website is in development to be launched early this summer.

From chickens, rabbits and hogs to cattle and horses, there are no customers too big or small for Cottor Farms when it comes to showing care that comes full circle. Thank you for being leaders in species and brand diversification and hitting the target on one of BioZyme’s core goals!

2023 A Day in the Life of a BioZyme® Employee Samantha Albers

Title: Marketing Brand Manager – DuraFerm® & Backyard Boost®

Number of Years at BioZyme: 1

Describe a “typical” day in your job: A typical day in my job is starting my day by checking my daily to-do’s and emails, then starting in on tasks that are more time-sensitive to marketing projects. I also go through each of the social media accounts for DuraFerm and Backyard Boost, replying to comments, direct messages and then scheduling content either for that day or for later. Along with reviewing social media content, I also look at Facebook and Google campaign ads that are performing well and look at the metrics of those. My typical day is heavily in Asana for managing projects and tasks and looking at timelines of planning upcoming events for both DuraFerm and Backyard Boost.

What is the most interesting thing you ever have done at BioZyme: Organizing and putting together a campaign for the first Chick Days since I started at BioZyme. This was really fun to put together and create the various marketing materials surrounding Chick Days, and then seeing the sales team push these pieces out to our dealer network was really amazing to see all come together.

What has been one of the biggest challenges: One of the biggest challenges has been keeping up with marketing trends, specifically with retail merchandising, and challenging myself to think of the out-of-the-box ideas to implement for Backyard Boost and DuraFerm products through the BioZyme distribution and dealer network.

Why is care that comes full circle important to what you do? I love talking with people about how BioZyme products have helped them succeed in their livestock operations. I showed livestock through 4-H and FFA and we fed Sure Champ® products to our show animals, and now with marketing the BioZyme Family of Brands to livestock producers and being on the other side of that relationship with producers is really amazing to experience the care that comes full circle.

What is something you enjoy doing outside of the office? I love photography, visiting family and friends, going to a good coffee shop or winery and traveling.