This evening participants in the Alltech International Animal Health and Nutrition Symposium broke up into discussion dinners with various topics. I attended the dairy dinner.
Other topics included:
* Food Fight: Do consumer perceptions affect the future of commercial agriculture?
* The Urban-Rural Divide: Farmers need to learn how to communicate with the media (pictured)
* Greening planet: Regulatory considerations for animal agriculture
* Contaminants in feed: How can feed & food companies address this challenge?
* Mycotoxins from the 2009 Crops: Realities & solutions
* Train your people and risk they leave or not train them and risk they stay?
* Poultry profitability: Do benchmarking systems help or hinder?
* New standards for pig nutritionists: 35 pigs per sow, 2.2 FCR
* Will milk be the ‘new oil’ again? Perspectives for a return to profitability
* Beefing up demand and profitability: What goes into a successful beef program?
* The equine genome: What does it mean for you and your horse business?
* Aquaculture: Is the future so bright?
* Profits from pets: The next frontiers of knowledge.