Identifying the key areas where feed losses occur on farms, can highlight many opportunities for improvement. While there will always be some degree of feed waste, it’s relatively easy to achieve incremental gains simply by paying closer attention to detail and improving accuracy across all stages of the feed process. Even modest improvements at each level will deliver big gains, from both a financial and an environmental perspective.
Emissions from the cow's rumen along with feed inputs, both grown and purchased, account for approximately two thirds of a farm’s carbon footprint. At Alltech, we believe a holistic approach is the only answer to reduce a farm's total carbon footprint. We provide advice across the entire farm, specific nutritional technologies and robust benchmarking, to reduce both physical wastage as well as underutilisation of feed inside the cow.
Whether your goal is to drive more margin from feed inputs, increase animal productivity or reduce environmental losses, Alltech can support with our unique service-offering. Find out how we can help you; from precision nutrition that minimises waste, to analytical services that not only help to improve a farm's carbon footprint, but profitability as well.
Yea-Sacc is the most widely-researched yeast culture on the market, with over 38 years of consistent performance responses of driving productivity in ruminants. Yea-Sacc is unique in its ability to stimulate both fibre-digesting and lactic acid-utilising bacteria, creating a more stable rumen environment.
Optigen is Alltech’s non-protein nitrogen source for ruminants. A safe and traceable source that provides a sustained availability of ammonia to meet the needs of rumen microbes. This leads to better fibre digestion and more efficient rumen nitrogen capture, thereby reducing nitrogen waste.
The Alltech In Vitro Fermentation Model (IFM), simulates rumen fermentation and evaluates the digestibility of feed ingredients and total mixed ration samples. IFM also measures the amount of energy lost in the form of methane by feeding a specific ration as well as the methane emission per animal.
Alltech E-CO2 is the leading provider of Carbon Trust-accredited environmental assessments globally. Using our unique on farm approach, our assessors gather information across the entire farm and provide a bespoke report outlining the levels of emissions from each source, along with a total carbon footprint for the farm.