In collaboration with retailers, producers, and other feed companies, ForFarmers is striving to minimise CO₂ emissions in pork production. One way this has been achieved is through the Circular Pig Feed Coalition, which brought the parties together temporarily. This collaboration has led to significant progress, such as the smarter and more frequent use of residual and by-products in animal feed. And with good reason: pigs are the epitome of circular animals.
Joint analyses show that this approach works. Smart steps have already been taken with liquid and dry feed to increase circularity and reduce CO₂ emissions, without impacting technical or economic performance. Building on this, we are pressing ahead. The question is no longer whether we can accelerate this process, but how. One promising route is to increase the proportion of residual flows in animal feed, but this does require cooperation across the entire supply chain.
For ForFarmers, one essential point here is that if we want to scale this up structurally, the right framework conditions must be in place. This means, among other things, that a suitable incentive model is needed to reward livestock farmers for their contribution to more sustainable production. Only in this way can we make the transition from insight to impact.
The initiative developed within the coalition is ongoing and is now being taken forward through existing partnerships across the supply chain.