Brett Ramirez has been appointed interim director of the Egg Industry Center at Iowa State University.
Ramirez has served as the center’s assistant director since April 2023, leading alongside former EIC director Richard Gates, who passed away in November 2023.
Ramirez, who joined Iowa State’s faculty in 2018, is also an associate professor with research and extension appointments in Iowa State’s Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering.
“Brett has made tremendous impacts within the poultry and livestock industries in his professional career,” said Daniel J. Robison, endowed dean’s chair of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. “I am confident he will successfully lead the Egg Industry Center in building upon its programs to help North American egg producers continue to provide this wonderful food source.”
Ramirez’s research spans several areas critical to the egg industry, including livestock housing and ventilation systems, environmental control, natural resource and energy efficiencies and precision livestock farming.
Through his extension appointment, Ramirez collaborates with industry members to address engineering, design, management and troubleshooting of livestock and poultry facilities. He has presented many ventilation workshops aimed at production employees and allied industry members.
His involvement with the Egg Industry Center has included his role in the EIC’s 2022 Environmental Protection Agency draft emissions model critical evaluation that considered ways to improve air emissions models applicable to the egg industry. He also has completed studies quantifying the energy usage of poultry operations’ manure handling systems.
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