FEEDINFO SUMMIT
Feedinfo Summit to unpack industry’s most pressing concerns
This year’s Summit will discuss important questions around inflation, supply chain challenges, sustainability, and other high-level concerns.
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“By attending the event, you will benefit from the opportunity to discuss with your peers, hear from independent experts on stage, and inform your strategic decision-making over the coming years.”
INFLATION, LOGISTICS, AND OTHER PRESSING CONCERNS Unsurprisingly, inflation is top-of-mind, and as companies across the value chain are searching for ways to cope with it, the Feedinfo Summit seeks to foster dialogue between actors at various levels. “We have a session which is specifically focused on bringing together representatives from integrated farms to talk about the challenges that livestock farming is facing, and we also have a representative there from the European Pig Producers (EPP) to represent smaller farms,” Theocharous observes. “There are a lot of really important questions we need to be talking about here. Are consumers ready for increases in the price of meat and dairy products? What are the consequences of rising costs on farmers, and on the shape of the farming industry going forward? How can we ease pressure on farmers? How do we maintain the progress that has been made on issues like animal welfare and climate-friendly production in such an environment?” Meanwhile, supply chain challenges are expected to be another hot topic at the Summit. “From the increase in prices of transporting goods, higher fuel and energy prices, and even the availability of feed raw materials, there are a lot of logistics challenges at the moment. These are things we are discussing at the Feedinfo Summit, by having independent experts from those sectors come in to actually explain why things are so challenging and what impact we can expect on our sector over the coming months and even years.” Of course, leaders must not only have their eyes on navigating today’s challenges, but also on heading off Photo courtesy of AgriBriefing
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pain is among the top three EU producers of pork, poultry meat, and veal. Its 782 feed factories make over 26 million tonnes of feed per year, the most of any European country. Its importance in the continent’s animal nutrition sector makes it a logical spot to host the next global Feedinfo Summit. In late September, senior leaders from companies across the animal nutrition value chain, from feed additives manufacturers and premix producers to compound feed manufacturers and integrated farmers, will gather in a seaside hotel in Barcelona for two days of discussion and analysis of the most critical issues facing the animal nutrition industry. In the words of Olympia Theocharous, Head of Content for Communications and Events at Feedinfo’s parent company Agribriefing, the Feedinfo Summit has been designed from its inception to inform those in managerial and C-suite positions. “We are discussing the issues that leaders want to know about. We didn’t just pluck these ideas from anywhere; we developed the content of this agenda in collaboration with the Feedinfo Leaders Network, a panel of CEOs from a range of companies from across the world, asking them ‘what is keeping you up at night?’
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