Livestock: Proving Value - Functional Nutrition from Prevention to Performance

As antimicrobial use declines, genetic complexity rises, and labour and climate pressures mount, nutrition is shifting from a performance input to an integrated management tool across health, immunity, and resilience. The science is advancing. The barrier is proof.

ROI is difficult to demonstrate consistently across variable genetics, geographies, and production systems. The validation models needed to generate commercially credible, farm-level evidence have not been built. This session will explore where functional nutrition is creating the greatest combined value, why the commercial case remains so hard to make in real production settings, and what it takes to construct the validation frameworks that unlock adoption at scale.