SPECIAL STORY 48 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE February 2023 “Nutritionists have several options to optimize animal performance in the context of price increases. However, it is necessary to have a more holistic view of the business to know which of all the alternatives are the most suitable for each system…” One year after the start of the war in Ukraine, the world is still reeling. The livestock industry is not excepted: the conflict affects the availability and prices of grains, fertilizers, oil, and biofuel, as well as energy prices. Commodities have fluctuated massively, and different regions are differently impacted. Under these circumstances, animal protein producers must be more creative to continue managing profitable operations. WHICH STRATEGIES ARE AVAILABLE? Maintaining performance and profitability during price hikes generally requires a combination of different nutritional strategies to, at least partially, compensate for the higher costs: • using alternative feed ingredients such as by-products (while considering their limitations in terms of inclusion and quality) • eliminating or reducing safety bands (especially Redesigning feed formulation during price hikes: WHAT CAN NUTRITIONISTS DO? Marisabel Caballero Global Technical Manager EW Nutrition Commodity Prices in 2022 (World Bank, January 2023 data)
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