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Experts Agree Optimizing Nutrition is Key to the Poultry Industry’s Future

 More than 125 poultry nutritionists and industry professionals recently gathered in Beijing, China, to attend the 2012 Alltech Poultry Summit. The three day event ventured into a world of opportunities and challenges by exploring the interplay of nutrition and genetics, examining the practices of several highly successful poultry regions and seeking solutions to feeding 9 billion people by 2050. Leading industry experts, academics and nutritionists from around the world agreed that optimizing nutrition is key to protecting the future of the poultry industry. I called Alltech spokesperson Katie Ghert who attended the conference: “Dr. Peter Ferket of North Carolina State University who worked here at Alltech says ‘It’s not what you feed but when you feed it, as he highlighted the importance of in-ovo feeding and Programmed Nutrition. One of the most exciting things associated with early nutrition and the ability to alter gene expression through timed delivery of key nutrients is that we can enhance not only the bird’s health, but their ability to utilize nutrients properly.”

The use of more efficacious forms of key trace minerals will lead to more optimal feeding levels that will benefit animal performance.