DR.FERM  
Innovative Fermentation

Ronald Scholten, PhD., & Anikó Karsai

In 2010, Ronald Scholten founded Dr.FERM Kft. His partner, Anikó Karsai, is co-owner since 2019. Her task is to run smoothly the back-office activities. 

Since 2010, we have been working hard and with conviction to be the best know-how partner in microbial fermentation concepts for animals (pigs, poultry, calves, dairy, aqua, shrimps, insects). Ronald has 25+ years experience in microbial fermentation for animals. Ronald has a passion for practical innovation based on scientific insights. This combination of science and practice became evident in his education: Higher Agricultural College (4 years) and Wageningen  Agricultural University (3 years). His career is also marked by the combination of practice and science: starting at the Applied Research Centre for Pig Farming, he had extensive contact with pig farmers and the supply industry, and conducted practical experiments at the Experimental Pig Farms in The Netherlands. In conjunction with these experiments, he simultaneously conducted his PhD research at Agricultural University Wageningen: "Fermentation of Liquid Diets for Pigs". Ronald also spent over eight years as a co-shareholder and manager of various pig farms in Hungary. In 2010, he finally returned to his hobby "fermentation". Several large feed mills, like Nutreco, Hendrix Voeders, ForFarmers, hired Dr.FERM to develop a well-functioning fermentation concept for use on-farm or on-feed mill.