
The following month, the Kent Nutrition Group opened a new swine research facility at their 800-acre Product Development Center in Muscatine County. It broke ground on the expansion in September 2017. In June 2017, the company announced a $37-million expansion of the Deluxe Feeds plant in Sheldon, Iowa. The assets in the deal included Deluxe Feeds' retail stores, feed mills, and its Midwest EnRG Flakes operations. In 2016, the company acquired Deluxe Feeds, another Iowa-based feed company. The original president, Rich Dwyer, led the feed division for its first year of operations and in 2011, John Thorpe become the president of Kent Nutrition Group.


Kent Nutrition Group was founded in 2010 in a corporate consolidation of two separate regional nutrition companies - Kent (established in 1927) and Blue Seal (established in 1868) - under the Kent Corporation. It operates under the brands Kent and Blue Seal and is a subsidiary of the Kent Corporation. The Kent Nutrition Group is an animal nutrition company based in Muscatine, Iowa.
