As companies strive to deliver on sustainability goals, nutritionists are tasked with finding the balance between ingredient inclusions, the animal’s needs and cost in their formulations. BESTMIX Software’s senior sales manager Tami Smith explains to Watt Global Media how formulation software can be used to track and reduce feed’s environmental footprint while remaining profitable.
Tami (Sr. Sales Manager at BESTMIX Software) explains how the main sustainability challenges feed producers face when trying to lower their environmental impact boils down to 3 things:
- determining what the environmental impact is like, what numbers do you measure? How do you look at it? Where do the numbers come from?
- leveraging the ingredients with your sustainability goals while still remaining cost competitive
- aligning with the producer goals at the farm level
Tami describes the role feed formulation software can play in delivering on the sustainability pledges of downstream customers. She takes her husband’s dairy farm as an example and gives insights in day-to-day practices.