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Grant will prepare NutraMaize Orange Corn for use in commercial poultry feed

Purdue University GoDaddy photo/Kelly Ngo Evan Rocheford, left, and his father, Torbert Rocheford, the Patterson Endowed Chair and a professor of agronomy in Purdue University’s College of Agriculture, founded the company NutraMaize to bring the benefits of antioxidant-rich orange corn to the United States.

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — NutraMaize, an agriculture company whose nutritionally enhanced orange corn is currently marketed through a line of premium milled products under the brand Professor Torbert’s Orange Corn, has received a two-year, $650,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the USDA to demonstrate the health and pigmentation benefits of feeding orange corn to poultry on a commercial scale.

NutraMaize CEO Evan Rocheford said a previous Phase I SBIR grant from the USDA funded proof-of-concept studies that showed NutraMaize Orange Corn improves outcomes in poultry health and egg yolk pigmentation. The results were. . .

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