SUSTAINABILITY
Products or Services to Minimise the Environmental Impact of the Animal Feed Industry
ANIMINE
AniGun®, your ally for trace minerals analysis
Precise mineral supplementation is the art of giving the animals exactly the amount of minerals that they need. It means that, to the total requirement of one mineral, the amount coming from native feedstuffs (forages, concentrates, etc.) has to be deducted. Also, the amount of antagonist should be taken into account because they can reduce the bioavailability of some important trace minerals (TM). What is the most important limiting factor in our industry to this approach?
The challenge is to assess accurately and regularly the amounts of micro-minerals naturally contained in the forage and other feedstuffs at the farm.
Nowadays TM analyses are not done on a regular basis, are taking time and are relatively costly. Normally these analyses are done by wet chemistry, in a laboratory located far away from the farm & requiring sample management and shipment. In order to perform more accurate mineral supplementation in an accessible and immediate way at the farm, Animine developed AniGun, a handheld analytical instrument for assessing TM content in forages. It uses the XRF (X-ray fluorescence spectrometry) technology, adapted from other industries for the animal feeding objective.
After proper calibration by Animine, this handheld device can measure precisely both macro (P, Ca, S, etc.) and micro (Zn, Mn, Fe, etc.) minerals and some antagonists (Mo, S, etc.) in forages rapidly and in an affordable way. When NIR is only adapted to organic fraction, XRF is essential to obtain inorganic fraction data. Consequently, XRF is a complementary option to the NIR portable device.
AniGun helps farmers and feed manufacturers to evaluate the TM content in the basal diet. This data is then used by the nutritionist to achieve a precise TM intake. With this approach, farmer could reduce the TM supplementation cost, avoid some cases of oversupplementation and chronic toxicity, and reduce the negative impact on the environment.
Contact
Email: marketing@animine.eu Web: https://animine.eu/anigun/
AZELIS
A zelis’ five-year sustainability strategy Action 2025 commits Azelis to achieving a series of ambitious targets by 2025 across all the major sustainability aspects of its strategy: People, Products and Innovation, Governance and Environment.
Our Animal Nutrition business offers a range of specialist feed ingredients, proven by scientific research to promote health, welfare, and productivity.
We place particular emphasis on supporting gut health to enable more efficient utilisation of nutrients from feed and helping to reduce the need for antibiotics. Supporting sustainable livestock production by achieving more with less.
Examples of ingredients we offer include the following:
ProPhorce™ SR 130 contains esterified butyric acid for high levels of targeted release in the lower gut. This supports reliable growth and performance but at lower inclusion levels compared to other butyric acid products, leading to better FCR’s, and helping to reduce the environmental footprint.
Sangrovit ® is a plant-based feed ingredient that supports feed intake during periods of challenge, therefore supporting health and productivity.
Active D contains the bioactive form of Vitamin D calcitriol delivered straight to the small intestine. It supports the uptake of Calcium and Phosphorus, which improves bone strength, egg quality and extends laying period, improving efficiency, and reducing food waste.
Plexomin® Chelated Trace Minerals
The high mineral content and bioavailability of these organically bound trace minerals aids absorption and reduces excretion, preventing mineral deficiencies even when used at a lower dose compared to inorganic sources of trace minerals. The production process is environmentally sustainable as energy released is re-used within the production facilities.
Nuproxa Range providing natural and efficient solutions, including NatuB4®, a natural choline substitute and NuxaSan 500™️ containing bioactives known for their activity in reducing the negative effects of coccidia.
For further information please contact Leia Trotman at Azelis on: +44 (0)7792116659 or via email: leia.trotman@azelis.co.uk
Azelis sustainability report: www.azelis.com/en/sustainabilityreportdownloads
DSM-FIRMENICH - ANIMAL NUTRITION & HEALTH
CARGILL UK
Sustell TM , the leading and complete solution to help you address your sustainability challenges, credibly and transparently. SustellTM accurately measures your full environmental footprint and provides actionable insights on how to reduce your impact.
Several years in development and continually updated, Sustell™️ was developed in collaboration with key partners, including Blonk, recognised experts in the field of agri-food lifecycle analysis, as well as customers and users worldwide to reflect real-world needs of sustainable animal protein production.
Sustell™️ is a first-of-its-kind intelligent sustainability service to drive improvements in the environmental footprint and profitability of animal protein production.
Sustell™️ is built on two pillars to measure the footprint of your animal protein production systems in a more accurate and complete way, while providing science-based recommendations to make improvements possible:
The Intelligence Platform
The Sustell™️ Intelligence Platform is a user-friendly SaaS platform (AWS cloud based) for data input, measurement and visualization of full environmental footprint results:
• Based on a full LCA (Life Cycle Assessment)
• Precise calculation enables tangible and measurable improvements of feed and farm environmental footprints
• Constantly updated and improved to meet user needs and evolving science, methodologies and the changing regulatory landscape and changing needs of animal protein producers and industry
The Expert Centre
The Sustell ™️ Expert Center provides tangible, measurable interventions to help you reduce your farm level environmental footprint.
The Sustell™️ Expert Center provides:
• Accurate, simple and actionable feed and farm-level analyses
• Recommendations
• Training
• Audits
• Certification
• Business development projects web: www.sustell.com www.dsm-firmenich.com/anh
Cargill Animal Nutrition is fully committed to the sustainability journey and to supporting its suppliers and customers in meeting their respective targets.
Sourcing sustainable ingredients, such as sustainable palm oil and soya, and finding alternatives, like insect oil, are part of Cargill’s sustainability programme.
The company is also improving its manufacturing excellence and cutting emissions from factories, targeting a global reduction of 10% by 2025. Closer to home, its UK plant based at Dalton, in North Yorkshire, has reduced its scope 1 emissions by 60% since 2017.
Cargill has progressed on its journey to secure sustainable ingredients and develop a tried-and-tested portfolio of novel products that are focused on: improving feed efficiency through more precise diet formulations and reduced crude protein levels; animal welfare and performance; and reducing nutrient pollution.
Triple S® soya has now replaced soya sources in Cargill UK’s Neopigg® piglet diets and its Neochicc® chick diets. The triple ‘S’ reflects the sustainably sourced and supplied origins of the soya used in the diets.
Triple S soya has the same nutritional value as the previously used soya and is sourced from areas in South America that are guaranteed deforestation-free since 2008. The soya in Triple S is also fully traceable to individual farms so the supply chain, including feed compounders and retailers, know exactly where is comes from.
Equaliser® Cream is a specialised rumen buffer that targets the causes of milk fat depression. It is highly effective where high oil content diets are being fed, such as young, immature grazed grass or diets with high oil content co-products, and where highly digestible diets and highenergy silages are included in the ration.
It has a proven record of helping to maintain milk butterfat levels and, therefore, protecting milk prices during prolonged risk periods. It offers a more cost effective, reliable and immediate response to maintaining milk butterfat compared with previous alternatives and contains no palm.
Cargill’s NeoMilk® follow-on milks have a more precise balance of amino acids and strategic use of feed additives to optimise gut health. An accurate amino acid profile has allowed for a lower crude protein level in some cases to improve the diet’s efficiency, while maintaining performance and avoiding an over-supply of nutrients.
Promoting sow and piglet welfare and performance is achieved by including LivaPig® in the lactation diet. This feed product is proven to increase the blood flow and, therefore, the supply of oxygen and nutrients around the body. It is based on the same principle used in supplements for athletes to improve performance. In the case of the sow, it increases the flow of nutrients to the reproduction tissue and piglets in utero.
Reduced stillbirths and increased birthweights, with fewer smaller piglets, have been recorded in litters from sows fed on LivaPig®, resulting in an increase of 0.5 piglets weaned per litter
Faster farrowing times and improvements in colostrum quality and
quantity, with a significant increase in the solids content, have also been recorded in sows fed the product in late gestation and early lactation, compared with those fed a standard diet.
Cargill’s SilvAir® has been developed following extensive research into the use of dietary nitrate in methane reduction from ruminants. It is a carefully manufactured feed-grade calcium nitrate comprising 76% nitrate and 22.5% calcium, with a dry matter of 84%, and it also offers an alternative source of dietary protein and calcium.
In trials, where it is included at a rate of 1.6% of the total diet dry matter in dairy diets, it has been shown to reduce methane emissions by up to 10%. SilvAir is already used in dairy rations in the UK and Ireland.
Advanced formulation technology used in the Cargill Nutrient System (CNS) supports more sustainable livestock production in all species. It uses real time data on the nutritional analysis of ingredients, which allows for continuous improvements in production efficiency and on the environmental impact of diets.
Feed compounders can access and use this accurate and current information from CNS in Cargill’s precision-driven rationing programmes DairyMAX and BeefMAX, Panorama for poultry systems, and PorkMAX for the pig sector.
Josie Hatch - Marketing Communications Specialist – UK and Ireland
Cargill Animal Nutrition
Tel: +44 (0)1845 578125
Josie_hatch@cargill.com
Provimi Ltd., Dalton Airfield Industrial Estate, Thirsk, North Yorkshire, YO7 3HE www.cargill.com/feed | @CargillAnimalUK
ORFFA
Orffa’s commitment to a sustainable livestock production
FEFAC (European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation) issued a sustainability charter highlighting core ambitions, such as contributing to a climate neutral production and improving resource efficiency. In the search of innovative feed solutions, Orffa is a key actor to help the industry meet its sustainability goals. Orffa is taking actions in various domains such as the reduction of the use of antibiotics, welfare of animals and increase of the efficiency of animal production. Amongst the nutritional solutions, the impact of a nutritional emulsifier, Excential Energy Plus, has been assessed on the environmental footprint of broiler, turkey and swine production via a LCA (Life Cycle Assessment). LCA is a technique to evaluate the environmental impact associated with the lifecycle of a product from cradle-to-farm gate. Product environmental footprint guidelines of the European Union were applied as methodology for the calculations. Nutritional emulsifiers are proven to improve energy and nutrient
digestibility. Their mode of action is interesting in energy reduced diets, to reduce feed cost while maintaining performance. It was observed that feeding Excential Energy Plus to swine decreased the amount of CO2 equivalent needed to produce 1kg of pork live weight by 3.27%. Impacts on acidification, eutrophication and land use were similarly reduced. The production of 1kg of Excential Energy Plus requires 1.15kg CO2 equivalent but enables to save 228kg CO2 equivalent, representing an offset of CO2 as 7,700 trees. Climate action is a joint responsibility and Excential Energy Plus is part of this journey!
Email: info@orffa.com
TROUW NUTRITION
Carbon measurement for your own and your customers’ benefit.
Carbon footprint reduction in livestock farming will remain a high profile issue in the quest to meet the COP26 targets and the industry will need to take a holistic approach if this is to be achieved.
The ability to demonstrate the carbon footprint of purchased feeds is increasingly becoming a requirement of milk and meat processors and buyers, and of livestock farmers looking to reduce their own net carbon contribution. And it will be important for animal feed manufacturers too as they strive to demonstrate a reduced environmental impact.
Trouw Nutrition has been focussing on systems to help achieve these objectives through improved efficiency of feed and forage use on farm for many years. Now, their innovative, simple and easy to use FeedPrint system allows feed manufacturers to calculate and compare the carbon footprint of their raw materials used, compound feeds and mill processes.
Based on the GFLI database plus other secondary databases, following PEFCR, FeedPrint allows the carbon footprint of raw materials to be assessed taking account of the origin and distance travelled to the mill. It also allows the energy used in the mill processes to be included, and even split out per product line, to give a carbon cost per tonne of feed produced.
The data produced by FeedPrint will allow feed manufacturers to make decisions on raw materials based on sustainability metrics, calculate and track the carbon footprint of their mill and demonstrate improved carbon efficiency. It will also allow more accurate and usable data to be provided to customers to help reduce the carbon cost of UK livestock farming.
Email: technical.gb@trouwnutrition.com
Web: trouwnutrition.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1335 341100