Faccin joins Alltech's U.S. pork team

Alltech is pleased to announce that Jamil Faccin has joined the U.S. pork team as a swine technical and nutrition specialist. Faccin joins Alltech following successful completion of his Ph.D. and postdoctoral programs at Kansas State University.

Faccin is originally from southern Brazil and currently lives with his wife Paula in Manhattan, Kansas. He is passionate about swine nutrition, production, research, technology and innovation. He obtained his degree in veterinary medicine at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. As an undergraduate, he conducted reproduction research on gilt and sow management and boar semen analysis in commercial swine operations. After obtaining his degree, he spent four years at BRF–Brasil Foods. His primary roles involved health and management assistance for sow farms, GDUs, nurseries and finishers.

In 2017, he obtained a master’s degree at UFRGS under Fernando Bortolozzo. Wanting to help nursery farmers, he led a partnership between academia and a production company to build and run nursery trials in commercial scenarios. His research during that time focused on nursery management and feeding strategies.

In 2020, he obtained his Ph.D. at UFRGS and K-State Applied Swine Nutrition under Mike Tokach, conducting on-site trials involving more than 3,600 pigs at Master Agroindustrial, Brazil, and Holden Farms of Minnesota. There, he focused on management and nutrition of pigs with different weaning ages. He also studied the effects of the first week in the nursery on future pig performance.

In 2021, Faccin joined K-State as a postdoc researcher, engaging in all aspects of nutrition research, teaching, diet formulation, experimental design, protocol planning and implementation, data management and literature reviews. His recent publications have focused on soybean meal inclusion levels for nursery and finishing pigs, feed additives and low ABC-4 as an alternative to high zinc oxide, a national swine industry VTM survey, a review in gilt development nutrition and others. He also taught a Topics in Swine Nutrition class and led the Biosecure Ingredient Imports plan with the U.S. Swine Health Improvement Plan.

Faccin has also hosted hundreds of episodes of SuinoCast, the first Brazilian podcast for the swine industry. He is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

“We are pleased to welcome Dr. Jamil Faccin to the Alltech U.S. Pork team,” said Mark Hulsebus, sales and portfolio director at Alltech. “His knowledge and experience will enable our team to deliver even more value for our customers by providing in-depth knowledge of the species and its nutritional needs, as well as providing an additional technical production resource.”