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 footprints. 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 are doing 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

The way we source certain feed ingredients today puts too much strain on the planet’s resources to be sustainable in years to come. Feed ingredient production accounts for 45% of greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock industry. Instead of tapping precious resources such as wild fish, or farming feed crops to the detriment of natural ecosystems, we can continue to find ways to produce feed ingredients more 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 optimised to meet the needs of animals. Nutreco is working to drive this forward in our industry.

We’re also working to develop completely novel, sustainable ingredients. For example, our Nutreco Exploration team is already creating new phyto-complex ingredients for feed additives and is also developing microtechnology programs that mine the function of the microbiome for ‘biome-active’ application in aquatic species and livestock. (A biome-active is a gut bacterial function which, when added to the feed, displays a beneficial effect on animal performance, health, welfare.)