The number of researchers moving directly from universities to jobs in the dairy industry via a Dairy West-administered program could double in the next several years.
Food researcher Eric Bastian is Dairy West’s vice president of innovation partnerships. In 2017 he got the organization’s Building University and Industry Linkages for Learning and Discovery program — known by the acronym BUILD Dairy — up and running. It aims to help the industry boost the supply of research scientists who want to stay in the West
