Kevin Gast

General Manager at Daybreak Foods, Inc.

Kevin Gast is a skilled production manager with extensive experience in the poultry industry. Currently serving as Production Manager at Daybreak Foods, Inc. since June 2021, Kevin previously held roles at Rose Acre Farms, including Pullet Manager and Pullet Farm Manager, where responsibilities included managing a farm that raised 400,000 pullets. Earlier experience as Training Manager at Sparboe Companies involved a role as Production Manager Trainee, focusing on a 1.5 million bird commercial layer facility. Kevin holds a degree in Animal Science with a Poultry Emphasis from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and a Poultry Science Emphasis through the Midwest Poultry Consortium's Center of Excellence Program. Additionally, Kevin completed Dale Carnegie Training in 2019 and is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, expected to be completed in November 2025.

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Madison, United States

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Daybreak Foods, Inc.

Daybreak Foods, Inc. is a family owned, family operated egg production and processing company headquartered in Lake Mills, Wisconsin. As a top-4 domestic egg producer with facilities located in six states across the Midwest, Daybreak is a major supplier of liquid and shell egg to the food processing and restaurant industries. Daybreak's operationally flexible, customer centered approach; along with our industry leading food safety and animal welfare practices, make us the supplier of choice for companies that want to deliver a safe, high quality product to the end consumer in the most sustainable manner possible. As our more than 1,000 employee stakeholders would attest, Daybreak Foods offers challenging and rewarding careers in entry and mid-level operations, industrial maintenance, supervision, operations management, quality systems and compliance, transportation, logistics, procurement, accounting, human resources, information technology, and executive management. Our innovative, industry standard Operations Management Associate Program provides new and recent college graduates with an opportunity to gain valuable experience within the Daybreak system through multi-disciplinary management rotations. Daybreak provides competitive compensation, along with a full range of employee benefit programs.