Jun 07

Ireland's Green Credentials

Categories: Alltech Symposium, Sustainability
Ireland's Green Credentials

Interview with Aidan Cotter

Interview with Aidan Cotter, the Chief Executive of Bord Bia, the Irish Food Board. He explains the carbon footprint initiative being implemented in Ireland.

Ireland have made a promise that by 2014, 75% of all food and drink exports will come from farms and food businesses that have signed up to the sustainability plan and by 2016 all of food and drink exports will come from these sustainable sources.

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Jun 06

What About our Carbon Hoofprint?

Categories: Alltech Symposium, Beef Cattle, Guest Posts, Sustainability
What About our Carbon Hoofprint?

Guest Blogger Janeal Yancy - Mom at the Meat Counter

Animal Agriculture and the Environment

As a meat producer and a mom, I hear a lot of information about animal agriculture and the environment. Some groups claim that meat production is one of the main driving forces hurting the environment. They claim that we need to go ‘back to the start’ in food production, insinuating that we should go back to producing food the way we did decades ago.

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May 31

Discussion Dinner Highlights: Beef in 2020

Categories: Alltech Symposium, Beef Cattle, Sustainability
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Interview with Dale Moore

Talking with Dale Moore from the Cattlemen's Choice Feedyard in Western Oklahoma. This is what he thought about the discussion dinner.

During symposium we brought our beef industry attendees together for a discussion dinner, paired with the delicious Lyons Farm Fillet of Beef Wellington. The topic of discussion was sustainability in the global beef industry. Through the participation of attendees from North America, Europe and Latin America we were able to benefit from a variety of different viewpoints on the sustainability of using antibiotics, hormones and other growth promoters in beef production as we look to the future in 2020.

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Jan 28

Tomorrow's World: Looking Into the Future with Algae Applications

Categories: Ag Future, Agriculture, Algae, Animal Nutrition, Aquaculture, Future of Farming, Poultry, Sustainability
Tomorrow's World: Looking Into the Future with Algae Applications

Becky Timmons on DHA

Becky Timmons, Director of Applications Research and Quality Assurance, discusses the importance of DHA at Alltech's Global 500.

The world’s population is quickly increasing, by the year 2050 the population is expected to increase to 9 billion people! High quality protein and other nutrients are needed to feed this growing population as the current food system in place cannot sustain this influx. Becky Timmons of Alltech, sees this challenge as an opportunity for the agriculture industry to sustainably provide the necessary nutrients for this growing population.

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