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<\/p>\nInstead of featuring an individual this week at the request of their leader, Adam Fahrenholz, we will celebrate the work of the Feed Mill Education Unit team.<\/p>\n
Animals must be fed, no matter what the circumstances. And the Feed Mill Education Unit is keeping university animals fed throughout the pandemic.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe entire team is exceptional, a word I don’t use lightly,\u201d Fahrenholz says. \u201cThey have stepped up and adapted throughout this situation without hesitation. A lot of folks (and animals) are lucky we have them working here.”<\/p>\n
Curious where the Feed Mill Education Unit is located? Like many other university research field labs it is just off Lake Wheeler Road in Raleigh. Traffic to the feed mill is typically low, which supports current distancing and tracing practices.<\/p>\n
Nine individuals keep the feed mill up and running, one of whom just started in May. (Welcome, Jennifer Harrison!)In March and April, the team reduced their operation to two days a week out of caution, while still manufacturing enough feed for NC State and North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services animal units.<\/p>\n
In March and April, the unit formed two separate teams, one for each day, to maintain a clear separation.<\/p>\n
In May, to meet increased feed demand, the facility began to operate three days per week with the full staff and a student temporary worker, with others remaining off-site to act as backups. In June, the facility returned to a five day-a-week schedule, with all Feed Mill Education Unit employees returning to the site as needed.<\/p>\n
\u201cCALS IT has worked with Dr. Adam Farenholz to ensure continuity of service by securely enabling remote desktop controls,\u201d says regular internal partner Jevon Smith, CALS IT service desk manager. \u201cDr. Fahrenholz was adamant about continuing the feed mill\u2019s important work while also balancing the safety of his staff during COVID operations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beyond keeping university animals fed, the feed mill team facilitates research through feed manufacturing for live-animal trials. The facility also serves external stakeholders through manufacturing research feeds, including some for time-sensitive trials.<\/p>\n\n
Early during the stay-at-home order, the team battled logistics. Previous methods for coordinating deliveries and shipments would no longer do. With reduced on-site operations it became a challenge to schedule deliveries based on limited time availability. However, as with other challenges, the team adapted and things are operating smoothly again.<\/p>\n
To stay safe, feed mill faculty, staff and students are masking up while inside and when it is impossible to be more than six feet apart. Frequent hand washing and cleaning is also a part of the daily routine.<\/p>\n
The feed mill is also a figurative island. No external visitors are allowed beyond those necessary for maintenance and repairs and no internal visitors except those dropping off materials and\/or research ingredients and picking up finished feeds.<\/p>\n
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The practice will go on for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n
\u201cAdam and the feed mill team have done an amazing job in keeping the feed mill up and running during the pandemic,\u201d says Patricia Curtis, professor and head of the Prestage Department of Poultry Science. \u201cTheir work has been crucial to ensure our research and teaching animals have feed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thank you, Feed Mill Education Unit!<\/p>\n
Sam Brown (Lead Research Technician)<\/strong> Have a coworker who is an essential employee and deserves recognition? Email cals_communications@ncsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"Instead of featuring an individual this week at the request of their leader, Adam Fahrenholz, we will celebrate the work of the Feed Mill Education Unit team.\r\n\r\nAnimals must be fed, no matter what the circumstances. And the Feed Mill Education Unit is keeping university animals fed throughout the pandemic.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe entire team is exceptional, a word I don't use lightly,\u201d Fahrenholz says. \u201cThey have stepped up and adapted throughout this situation without hesitation. A lot of folks (and animals) are lucky we have them working here.\"[pullquote align=\"right\" color=\"red\"]A lot of folks (and animals) are lucky we have them working here[\/pullquote]\r\n\r\nCurious where the Feed Mill Education Unit is located? Like many other university research field labs it is just off Lake Wheeler Road in Raleigh. Traffic to the feed mill is typically low, which supports current distancing and tracing practices.\r\n\r\nNine individuals keep the feed mill up and running, one of whom just started in May. (Welcome, Jennifer Harrison!)In March and April, the team reduced their operation to two days a week out of caution, while still manufacturing enough feed for NC State and North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services animal units.\r\n\r\nIn March and April, the unit formed two separate teams, one for each day, to maintain a clear separation. Although many of us are working from home, a few necessary people must physically stay on campus, or go out into their communities, to keep the CALS Community up and running. Check out our series Essentially CALS to learn more about our incredible coworkers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":46895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[277,316,276,367],"tags":[402],"class_list":["post-46893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admin","category-cals-communications","category-shout-out","category-covid-19","tag-essentially-cals"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46893"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46922,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46893\/revisions\/46922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMargaret Davis (Part Time Technician)<\/strong>
\nAdam Fahrenholz (Associate Professor, FMEU Faculty Liaison)<\/strong>
\nMarissa Herchler (EHRA Professional)<\/strong>
\nJennifer Harrison (Research Technician)<\/strong>
\nAndrea Rubio (Graduate Student)<\/strong>
\nNoah Starnes (Student Temporary)<\/strong>
\nCorey Wison (Part Time Technician and Graduate Student)<\/strong>
\nRachael Wood (Graduate Student Temporary)<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\r\nIn May, to meet increased feed demand, the facility began to operate three days per week with the full staff and a student temporary worker, with others remaining off-site to act as backups. In June, the facility returned to a five day-a-week schedule, with all Feed Mill Education Unit employees returning to the site as needed.\r\n\r\n\u201cCALS IT has worked with Dr. Adam Farenholz to ensure continuity of service by securely enabling remote desktop controls,\u201d says regular internal partner Jevon Smith, CALS IT service desk manager. \u201cDr. Fahrenholz was adamant about continuing the feed mill\u2019s important work while also balancing the safety of his staff during COVID operations.\u201d\r\n\r\nBeyond keeping university animals fed, the feed mill team facilitates research through feed manufacturing for live-animal trials. The facility also serves external stakeholders through manufacturing research feeds, including some for time-sensitive trials.\r\n\r\n[pullquote align=\"right\" color=\"red\"]Their work has been crucial to ensure our research and teaching animals have feed.[\/pullquote]\r\n\r\nEarly during the stay-at-home order, the team battled logistics. Previous methods for coordinating deliveries and shipments would no longer do. With reduced on-site operations it became a challenge to schedule deliveries based on limited time availability. However, as with other challenges, the team adapted and things are operating smoothly again.\r\n\r\nTo stay safe, feed mill faculty, staff and students are masking up while inside and when it is impossible to be more than six feet apart. Frequent hand washing and cleaning is also a part of the daily routine.\r\n\r\nThe feed mill is also a figurative island. No external visitors are allowed beyond those necessary for maintenance and repairs and no internal visitors except those dropping off materials and\/or research ingredients and picking up finished feeds.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe practice will go on for the foreseeable future.\r\n\r\n\u201cAdam and the feed mill team have done an amazing job in keeping the feed mill up and running during the pandemic,\u201d says Patricia Curtis, professor and head of the Prestage Department of Poultry Science. \u201cTheir work has been crucial to ensure our research and teaching animals have feed.\u201d\r\n\r\nThank you, Feed Mill Education Unit!\r\n\r\nSam Brown (Lead Research Technician)<\/strong>\r\nMargaret Davis (Part Time Technician)<\/strong>\r\nAdam Fahrenholz (Associate Professor, FMEU Faculty Liaison)<\/strong>\r\nMarissa Herchler (EHRA Professional)<\/strong>\r\nJennifer Harrison (Research Technician)<\/strong>\r\nAndrea Rubio (Graduate Student)<\/strong>\r\nNoah Starnes (Student Temporary)<\/strong>\r\nCorey Wison (Part Time Technician and Graduate Student)<\/strong>\r\nRachael Wood (Graduate Student Temporary)<\/strong>\r\n\r\nHave a coworker who is an essential employee and deserves recognition? Email cals_communications@ncsu.edu<\/a>."},"excerpt":{"rendered":"