Alltech Symposium Wrapup

Chuck Zimmerman

Alltech closing sessionThe Alltech International Animal Health and Nutrition Symposium was another overwhelming success in terms of attendance, theme and customer interaction from a personal and professional standpoint. I missed the closing session but thanks to Alltech photographer Tim Webb we have this great shot. And thanks to Alltech blogger Debbie Hildreth, for a short summary of the last session.

Alltech President Dr. Pearse Lyons addressed the audience in today’s general session and issued a challenge …

What is needed ― and what will YOU need ― so you can quickly adopt the technological innovations that will make animal agriculture sustainable?

And three directors at Alltech were on hand to speak to this key message ― sustainability. Their topics comprised: acknowledging environmental threats to sustainability; addressing quality issues that influence sustainability; developing processes, embracing innovations and improving community health to drive sustainability; and positioning your business for sustainability.

So we had great sessions and there were a lot of them on very technical topics categorized by species. Attendees could not only experience wonderful fellowship but get a real world education in production practices and the issues facing everyone in agriculture today. I thought I’d also leave you with an Alltech video which shows the “trade show” portion of the Symposium where attendees could learn more about Alltech products and be entertained at the same time. Let me conclude with special thanks to Dr. Pearse Lyons and his team, including Billy Frey in particular, for allowing me the opportunity to work with them again this year. I hope we get to do it again next year.

Alltech Symposium Photo Album

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