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In September 2020, AB Agri launched a specialist neonate nutrition business – AB Neo – which focuses on the essential and very particular needs of young farm animals.
Neonate nutrition is a critically important area of animal husbandry. The lifetime health of an animal is heavily dependent on how well it is cared for and fed during its first few weeks. AB Neo manufactures a range of products for piglets, calves and poultry, helping our customers – mainly medium-sized to large farmers – provide the best start in life for their animals. This in turn helps the animals to be healthy and productive.
To achieve this, we brought together three of our existing businesses – Agilia, ASN and Primary Diets – with four sites in Denmark, Poland, Spain and the UK, to create a single, unified centre of excellence. This brought together highly entrepreneurial businesses and more than 35 technical experts.
AB Neo has significant capability in:
We produced over 200,000 tonnes of animal feed in the year and our growth strategy is focused on moving into new geographies.
Our aim is to become a leading business in piglet nutrition in our home territories and elsewhere in Europe while expanding our non-piglet businesses and calf nutrition across newer markets including the US, Brazil and China.
With environmental and animal welfare considerations top of mind, AB Neo is building an innovation farm in Spain, which will be the largest dedicated piglet research centre in Europe. The farm will incorporate a cloud-based environmental and production control system, using smart ‘insight’ feeders and electronic tagging to record data to monitor the health and wellbeing of more than 50,000 piglets a year. It will improve our insights into pre-weaning nutrition needs, helping us create better solutions in early-life animal husbandry.
We will also continue to work with farmers and customers to improve how we source ingredients sustainably and produce healthy, safe and environmentally responsible animal protein.