Helping to strengthen the food supply and keep production-sustaining profits flowing
Calgary, ALBERTA — As farming operations around the world fortify resources and strategies to maintain a strong high-quality food supply amid a global pandemic, a driving force helping protect their livestock and keep efficient and profitable production flowing has emerged in the form of newly advanced feed science technology.
“Long before the pandemic we had seen the beginnings of a major shift in focus toward animal feed and nutrition as a top area of opportunity, particularly related to the potential for further science and technology based innovations in these areas,” says Rob Patterson, Technical Director of Canadian Bio-Systems (CBS Inc.), a leading bio-based feed technology company on the front line of this evolution.
“This was for several reasons including, very prominently, the need to help animal agriculture transition to a new era with greater efficiency and customization demands coupled with increasing restrictions on conventional tools such as antimicrobials. We see the pace of this trend now greatly accelerating in the face of the pandemic, as more producers embrace opportunities to innovate and keep production-sustaining profits flowing.”