1. Supporting sustainable production enabled  by technology:

Farmers remain critical to the food sector’s ability to feed the world, but they are under enormous pressures. They need to achieve strong animal performance to be profitable while also reducing antibiotic use without failing to curb diseases, improving animal welfare standards and reducing their environmental footprint. We can support them in facing these challenges.

We want to be the partner of choice that farmers trust to provide animal nutrition solutions based on science that help them operate more efficiently and sustainably – regardless of whether they are smallholders farming shrimp in Asia or North American vertically-integrated meat corporations. 

We will do this by becoming a farm-focused solutions provider, using the latest technology to facilitate our solutions and take the guesswork out of sustainable farming for our customers.

3. Sourcing & developing future protein ingredients:

How we source feed ingredients today will not work in the future. Feed ingredient production accounts for 45% of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock. Instead of tapping precious resources such as wild fish, or farming feed crops to the detriment of natural ecosystems, we can produce feed ingredients sustainably.

And we can use co-products of the food industry that would otherwise be wasted, as well as novel ingredients such as insect protein, in feed formulation optimized to meet the needs of animals. Nutreco is working to drive this forward in our industry. 

While we remain fully committed to supporting animal farmers, we know that our industry will have to maximize all sources of protein to feed the growing global population and make our feed production chain more resilient, so we see alternative proteins as another emerging solution in addition to farming. 

It is not a question of “either/or” when we look at feeding 10 billion people in 2050 but “and/and.”