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 Global Feed Tonnage Reaches Record 873 Million

As we look to feed 7 billion people in 2012, it is clear that the efficient production of meat, milk and eggs has never been more important. Dr. Pearse Lyons, president and founder of Alltech, directed  his research team to evaluate the world’s feed industry as part of its ongoing commitment to information and technology transfer between providers and customers.” Aidan Connolly, vice president of corporate accounts at Alltech reports that  there is more animal feed than originally believed: “We are a private company but we are in 126  countries where we do business with the feed industry. So we got our own people to look at all the statistics that we could find, specifically information from customers that come out of the feed survey. The previous number that had been estimated for feed production was about 720,000,000 tons. We came out with our survey which covered more countries and companies and it showed that the feed production globally is actually 867,000,000 tons.