INTERVIEW FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE December 2023 49 Demand for poultry products is increasing day by day worldwide. While the industry is making a great effort to meet this growing demand, it also has to struggle with various restrictive factors such as animal diseases and antibiotic reduction. Can you tell us how Cargill supports the poultry industry in combating these challenges? The poultry industry is facing many challenges, and at Cargill we have tools necessary to help poultry producers adapt and thrive. We offer a range of feed and feed additives that help support the overall health of birds. For example, Cargill offers postbiotics - derived from fermentation - to help support healthy intestinal microflora. Our feeds also offer a range of nutritional support for flocks. The poultry industry is facing a double challenge of needing to meet growing demand while addressing societal expectations to minimize the use and adopt better stewardship of antibiotics. At Cargill, we have the tools to help support this, thanks to our diversified portfolio of solutions and panoply of molecules available leading to an infinite range of possibilities in supporting and maintaining the health of birds through nutritional solutions. By combining the right technologies and relevant ingredients in the right amount, we can help address the vast majority of health challenges our industry is facing, by maintaining health and promoting the resilience of birds. To take just a few examples, phytogenic molecules - extracted from plants - have been shown to beneficially impact gut health. Postbiotics - derived from fermentation - have for their part demonstrated their effectiveness on gut integrity and beneficial modulation of intestinal microflora. Therefore, by leveraging on our key ingredients from postbiotics to organic acids alone or in combination with phytogenic and antioxidants, we can offer our customers effective and targeted solutions to succeed. Producing more with what is available or less is one of the most critical issues today. What does Cargill offer to improve production performance in poultry? In other words, what products and methods do you think the poultry industry should use to produce more? One aspect of sustainability involves saving resources. To produce more with less, a key lever to activate is optimizing the feed conversion ratio (FCR) in poultry production. We are very enthusiastic about the results of our first true synergistic postbiotic and phytogenic based product, Dia V™ MBPRO, bringing an observed reduction in feed conversion ratio of 2.5% on average, which means between three-to-four points for broilers slaughtered at 42 days of age with a body weight of 2.6 kg. This beneficial reduction of FCR comes on top of observed increased body weight gain and breast meat yield. These benefits are linked to the dual action of postbiotics and phytogenic potentially exerting their beneficial support in different segments of the digestive tract and allowing the bird to maximize nutrient absorption while modulating the microflora and enabling to avoid resource wastage. IPPE visitors can learn more about the product and research we’ve completed by visiting us in Booth A2233. Health is an essential tool for high production performance. What are the alternative solutions to support the health of animals while minimizing the use of antibiotics? Animal health and welfare is a key concern for us, and we have developed dedicated technology to support animal health - postbiotics, which have recently been precisely positioned based on a consensus definition developed by ISAPP (International Scientific Association of Pre and Probiotics). Postbiotics have been shown to act on four major pillars of health: acquired immunity, innate immunity, digestive health, and the orientation of the intestinal microbiota. The benefits of postbiotics on these four functionality pillars have been scientifically demonstrated through more than 80 scientific pub-
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