Dr. Gary L. Allee has been a director of the Company since May 1998. Dr. Allee is a professor of Swine Nutrition at the University of Missouri. Dr. Allee has served as President and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Midwest Section of the American Society of Animal Science. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Animal Husbandry and Swine Nutrition from the University of Missouri and a Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Illinois.