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Optimizing your production to meet increasing consumer demand for sustainable pork starts with feed. As one of the biggest costs of production, improving feed efficiency can not only reduce farm footprint, but also lower input costs.
Downstream players, such as consumers and retailers, significantly influence the global pork value chain. Most significantly they establish targets for upstream players, such as farmers, to meet. Many new targets are around sustainability, and yield.
With the global population expected to reach 9-10 billion people by 2050, there is a growing need to increase the supply of animal protein by 60%, while remaining sustainable.
Our experts can help you with practical advice to reduce your farm’s footprint.
Initiatives like the EU Green Deal and the 2030 Farm to Fork strategy are reshaping the agricultural landscape. The sector is adapting, with companies committing to Science Based Targets (SBT) initiatives to achieve reductions in Scope 3 emissions and other sustainability targets in the medium to long term.
Consumer buying behavior is shaped by key global trends - but which trends take priority varies across the world
To reduce carbon footprint on-farm, strategies include increasing feed conversion ratio, increasing overall animal health and welfare, minimizing reliance on soy from deforested land, and lowering overall soy usage. Additionally, lowering crude protein content and using synthetic amino acids can both reduce protein needs, and nitrogen emissions.
Feed contributes significantly to the carbon footprint of pork production, with cereals and protein meals being major contributors. Soybean meal, a common protein source, has environmental impacts, especially if linked to deforestation.
Incorporating alternative local raw materials, like sunflower or insect meal, diversifies European pig diets but introduces complexities such as fiber and mycotoxins.
For support on creating a diverse diet that lowers the footprint of your feed inputs, dsm-firmenich can help. Our nutritional approaches enhance raw material digestion, minimize nitrogen emissions, and manage mycotoxin risks.
The eubiotics portfolio and special nutrients support pig performance.
The Sustell™ service offers precise environmental footprint calculations, helping measure and reduce environmental impact with expert guidance and a comprehensive solution portfolio.
Watch our webinar on “Unlocking the value of sustainable swine production”. Experts will discuss from global trends in food production to practical approaches to shape sustainable swine production.
Collaborate with our on-site experts to embark on a transformative journey for your business. Through a comprehensive life cycle assessment, we lay the foundation for a roadmap that turns challenges into opportunities. Sustell™ is the leading life cycle assessment platform designed to unlock the true value of sustainability, empowering you to achieve your business objectives.
We specialize in maximizing the value of alternative raw materials through our extensive feed enzyme portfolio. Our approach to fiber nutrition involves intelligent use of substrate-specific carbohydrases. We employ protein nutrition strategies to optimize the utilization of available crude protein. Additionally, in the realm of phosphorus nutrition, our focus is on minimizing phosphorus excretion while maximizing its efficient utilization.
Ensuring feed safety is our top priority to protect your pigs from mycotoxin risk. With almost four decades of expertise, we provide tailored services and multifaceted solutions, including exclusive enzymatic technology that permanently deactivates mycotoxins. Mycotoxin risk is particularly high in alternative raw materials like wheat bran, wheat middlings, milled wheat, and milling byproducts compared to traditional raw materials. Our comprehensive analyses employ precise quantification methods, enabling the detection of single mycotoxins or assessment of the full toxic load. We offer both quick on-site testing and more thorough lab analysis using Spectrum Top® 50 and 380.
VevoVitall®, an ultra-pure, high-quality ingredient approved by EFSA, guarantees 99.9% purity and is free of impurities. This ingredient regulates gastrointestinal functionality, leading to notable improvements in pig performance, including a 4% increase in average daily gain. Its potent antimicrobial activity and unique metabolism producing hippuric acid contribute to urine acidification, reducing UTIs in sows and ammonia volatilization. This solution is recognized as the best available technology (BAT) by the EU, effectively reducing ammonia emissions by 20%.
For more information on how we can support you to achieve your farm’s goals, or to get in touch with your local representative, please contact us.
Sustell™ is an intelligent sustainability service that combines the most advanced environmental foot printing calculation tool with expert sustainability, animal production and nutritional knowledge to create tailor-made, practical solutions and business development projects that enhance the environmental sustainability and profitability of animal farming. Sustell™ unlocks the value of animal production sustainability.
Carbohydrases, Phytases & Proteases: Our feed enzymes portfolio has been developed to increase the efficiency of energy utilization.
The Mycofix® portfolio of feed additives represents the most state-of-the-art solution for protecting animal health by deactivating mycotoxins that contaminate farm animal feed. Its safety and efficacy are proven by 7 EU authorizations for substances that deactivate mycotoxins.
We offer a range of analytical services to customers to assess the mycotoxin contamination of feed materials.
VevoVitall® is an ultra-pure source of benzoic acid and is an excellent feed preservative.
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