INTERVIEW 50 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE December 2023 lications, including 32 published in peer-reviewed journals. Functionalities offered by postbiotics help support the animal’s immune system and microbiome to optimize animal health and performance. The animal nutrition industry, especially the poultry industry, is looking forward to IPPE 2024 for an exciting meeting. You are also among the exhibitors. What awaits visitors at the Cargill booth at IPPE 2024? Cargill’s seat at the centre of the supply chain gives us a unique role in connecting farmers and producers, customers, and consumers, as we work responsibly to make the world’s food system more sustainable, resilient, and accessible. At IPPE 2024 we’re excited to showcase our integrated team model, which allows us to help customers get the best out of every bird. Attendees visiting our booth will have the opportunity to learn Cargill’s tailor-made solutions, uniquely designed to address the specific challenges our customers are facing. Those solutions include innovative feed additives, premixes, complete feed, nutritional services, technical services, and digital technologies to help poultry producers improve efficiencies and ensure their birds meet their genetic potential. As a company recognised for your commitment to research and innovation, can you give us some hints about the innovations, if any, that you are preparing to introduce to the poultry industry at IPPE 2024? At Cargill we serve our customers by investing in local markets through global research and state-ofthe-art capabilities and solutions. An example of that research and innovation is REVEAL™ Layers, which we are introducing at IPPE. The poultry laying industry has long known that layer persistency is influenced by body condition. REVEAL Layers, Cargill’s patent-pending breakthrough NIR technology, provides poultry layer producers and nutritionists with real-time, mobile-accessible body composition assessments, allowing them to analyse the relationship between body fat and egg production. By measuring, understanding, and controlling body condition, producers can optimize diet composition, helping to improve profitability through optimized laying persistency and egg production. Watch for information regarding Cargill’s TECHTalk about REVEAL Layers. Could you share your messages for the poultry industry and your predictions about possible developments in the industry in 2024? The poultry industry is extremely dynamic, with an incredible capacity for adaptation and an unwavering desire to progress and innovate. Development efforts will focus in the coming years on demedication: demand is growing and certain countries such as China - a gigantic market - have, for example, recently announced the cessation of the use of growth promoting antibiotics. Our objective is to support our customers through this process and to offer solutions for each of the challenges they face. In the past, a solution was positioned to address a wide range of concerns. Those days are over; the market now wants effective and, above all, targeted solutions to support and optimize the health and resilience of birds in this changing paradigm. We are uniquely prepared and positioned to deliver that to our customers. Finally, what would you like to add? By merging with market leaders and partnering with the best suppliers, Cargill is and will continue to maintain its leading position in additives, developing efficient solutions to answer customer expectations both today and tomorrow. For a deep dive into our portfolio and a good understanding of what we can offer, please visit us at IPPE Hall A, booth A2233. About Yann Fournis Yann Fournis is additives poultry category lead for CAN, the animal nutrition division of Cargill. He started January 2018 in this position. In his current role, he is responsible for the deployment of three additives portfolios within Cargill Animal Nutrition businesses, and contributes to the innovation with Cargill partners to find new solutions able to answer customers’ expectations. Fournis graduated as zootechnical engineer in 2011 from AgroCampus Ouest in France, with main focus on animal production. From 2011 to 2018, he worked as a layer nutritionist in Cargill France, on its domestic and export markets. In 2016 he focused on layer nutrition and management, working with on-farm mixers and feed millers in France, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
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