Becca earned her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, Urbana and joined the KWS Cereals group in 2018. She began her career as Agricultural Product Developer (Feeding Nutritionist) at KWS focused on hybrid rye. Brattain is a significant contributor in the development feeding strategies for promoting and marketing hybrid rye for the animal feeding sector. Since joining KWS she has introduced hybrid rye feeding options to numerous commercial swine and cattle producers across the United States.