Climate change, food security and agriculture interlink with each other, accentuating innovation's importance to adapt against a global existential threat. Backed by investment, collaboration and public support for their continual development, innovative solutions can transform traditional meat productions into more sustainable activities, benefiting all agricultural sectors. This includes the poultry segment which is notably overtaking pork and beef in terms of the growth of output, occupying substantially a role in food security.

 

How innovation can improve today's means of poultry production may merely need a rethinking of its operations. Like removing supplemental feeders from bird feeding spaces, as Chore-Time recommends, highlighting the action's advantages, specifically, lowering "the expense of whole-house heating by realising savings in labour, reducing minimum ventilation costs, minimising feed waste and improving bird health" (pages 8-9). The company also explains how its KONAVI® Feeder can facilitate the change.

 

Additionally, innovation can be witnessed in how dietary solutions can maintain their efficacy and produce positive effects in animal diets. Like BASF's phytase formulations, reputed for their stability in storage and feed production, even in tough environmental conditions. "This stability is crucial for ensuring reliable and efficient nutrient release in the animal's digestive tract," write BASF's Leon Hall and Dr. Peter Ader (pages 10-11). In light of considering this aspect, more is shared about BASF's Natuphos® phytase.

 

Notwithstanding the merits of the aforementioned approaches, innovation is more than just about the latest technology and applications. Sometimes, a mental shift towards modern production is all that's needed to steer agriculture towards a more sustainable future.

 

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