The next major innovation in animal agriculture worldwide will be in the nutrition area. It won’t be one big event, but rather a series of innovations that combined add up to significant performance, improvement and cost reduction. It will improve our ability to compete in the world market in spite of our government’s best effort to drag us back into the Stone Age.
Ironically, improving speed, quality, consistency and cost reduction go hand-in-hand. Poultry, beef and pork producers have a built-in advantage because most of the major producers are vertically integrated. Vertical integration allows a producer to change the way an animal is raised reaping the benefit universally. The practice also results in more consistent products and results in driving out cost