INTERVIEW 50 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE February 2024 The medicinal plant solutions center, which started construction in Switzerland in September 2023 and is called Nutreco's Garden of the Future, offers promising clues on sustainable animal nutrition. Nutreco, as a company seeking solutions to today's important problems such as increasing global food production, limiting the use of antibiotics, reducing the environmental impact of animal producttion, and improving animal welfare, seems to add a new dimension to its strong position in the animal nutrition industry with its work in this center focused on completely natural ingredients. According to the company, the phytotechnology team at Nutreco’s Garden of the Future facility in Switzerland is breaking new ground every day, both literally and figuratively. Dr. Emma Wall, Nutreco Exploration’s Director of Development and Deployment, explains more about the new facility and this groundbreaking work. Dr. Wall is a physiologist by training who has spent her whole career in the livestock botanical space. In her current role, Dr. Wall and her team focus on maintaining a strong connection between Nutreco's business lines, Trouw Nutrition and Skretting, and the Nutreco Exploration team to help ensure the solutions the company develops precisely fit the needs of farmers. This is only one of many things that makes Nutreco Exploration’s approach to PhytoComplexes very different from anything we’ve seen in the industry to date; it’s unique not only in terms of their development process, which veers away from traditional R&D to focus solely on business needs but also the science, which, according to Dr. Wall, required an important mindset shift. FULLY UTILISING THE AMAZING POWER OF NATURE... Traditionally, the phytotechnology industry has mainly taken a pharmaceutical approach to product development, only utilising extractions that could Dr. Emma Wall, Nutreco Exploration’s Director of Development and Deployment: “What we’re producing at Nutreco Exploration is always complex, never a single ingredient. Our PhytoComplexes use the whole plant or complete plant extract, fully utilising the amazing power of nature to help animals overcome the complex challenges they face today.” NUTRECO'S GARDEN OF THE FUTURE CHANGES THE INDUSTRY FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
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