NEWS 66 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE April 2022 Royal DSM and FrieslandCampina have teamed up for a large-scale pilot project. Bovaer®, DSM's innovative feed additive that reduces methane emissions from cows by around 30%, will be used in the pilot at 200 FrieslandCampina dairy farms in the Netherlands. It's a European first by FrieslandCampina: a largescale pilot project to gain practical experience with Bovaer®, DSM's innovative feed additive that consistently reduces methane emissions from cows by around 30 percent. Following EU approval for the additive’s use in February 2022, the parties have decided to launch this pilot immediately. The Dutch feed supplier Agrifirm will supply the feed additive to the participating farmers. Through innovations like this, Dutch dairy farmers can build on sustainability improvements over recent years and contribute to a sustainable food production system. The Bovaer® pilot collaboration between the Dutch companies FrieslandCampina, DSM, and Agrifirm marks an important step forward in increasing the sustainability of the dairy sector. Some 200 FrieslandCampina dairy farms in the Netherlands will take part in the pilot in the second half of 2022. Providing the results are positive, the use of Bovaer® will be further upscaled from 2023. Together with its member dairy farmers, FrieslandCampina, aims to achieve a 33 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions on its farms by 2030. To this end, the dairy cooperative is working on various solutions, such as generating sustainable energy on farms, using guaranteed deforestation-free soy in cattle feed, and thanks to this project reducing cow methane emission using Bovaer®. Previous tests with Bovaer® at the Dairy Campus in Leeuwarden showed an average reduction in methane in enteric emissions per kilogram of milk of 30 percent. This leads to a reduction of approximately 10 percent in CO2 footprint. During the pilot, the participating dairy farms will feed Bovaer® to their cattle for a period of six months. It will be added to the feed by the feed supplier, Agrifirm, an agricultural cooperative. In addition, there will be talks with other feed suppliers in the follow-up phase. FrieslandCampina, DSM join forces to reduce emissions from dairy cattle AGT Food and Ingredients Inc. (AGT), one of the global leaders in plant-based proteins and value-added processing of pulses, grains, staple foods and ingredients, announced the start of commissioning of a value-added oat milling facility focused on the production of a variety of products, including oat groats, flours and other milled oat products, for plant-based human food, specialty ingredient and animal feed products. The planned oat milling facility will see the addition of state-of-the-art food technologies to augment the production capacity at AGT’s facility in AGT Food and Ingredients Inc. announced the commissioning of a value-added oat milling facility in Canada. The facility will produce oat groats, flours and other milled oat products for a variety of industries, including animal feed products. AGT commissions value-added oat milling facility
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