The UK government unveiled a raft of proposals last week with the goal of meeting carbon budgets. Precision animal feeding and diverse livestock-linked methane emission reduction approaches form part of the plan.
The UK government unveiled a raft of proposals and policies last week with the goal of meeting carbon budgets. Precision animal feeding and diverse livestock-linked methane emission reduction approaches form part of the plan.
Precision feeding in swine, and methane emissions mitigation strategies in ruminants are just two of around 50 research projects occupying the experts based at the ForFarmers Nutrition Innovation Center (NIC).
We asked Ad van Wesel, director of the NIC, to give us a deeper dive on the team’s work and how it ties in with the manufacturer’s commercial feed production priorities.
The innovation center consists of four teams: one focused on swine, one on ruminant related projects, another charged with poultry research and a fourth team working across species.
“We have a lot of projects on the go – some of those are termed maintenance projects – these are smaller-scale initiatives aimed at keeping our nutritional systems up to date. You don’t really gain additional customers from that kind of work, but you can lose customers if you don’t do it right. Every year, we try to also carry out small, incremental projects such as making slight improvem