Challenges, rank by world region
Cost of grains/diversion of corn to ethanol
Management of feeding programs to achieve performance in flocks
Availability/cost/quality of research to support decision-making
Mycotoxins (and other anti-nutritional factors) in grains
Cost of micro-ingredients/feed additives
Sourcing alternative feed grains
Capital for expansion/replacement of production facilities
Food safety and/or supply chain risk
Environmental concerns and/or sustainability
Discontinuation/unavailability of antibiotics in feeds
• higher rank (greater importance) than “All”
• lower rank (less importance) than “All”
Latin
America
1.00
2.00
4.00 •
8.00 •
6.00 •
5.00 •
3.00 •
9.00 •
7.00 •
10.00
North
America
1.00
2.00
6.00 •
4.00
5.00
9.00 •
8.00 •
3.00 •
7.00 •
10.00
Asia
1.00
2.00
3.00
5.00 •
6.00 •
4.00 •
9.00
8.00
7.00 •
10.00
All
1.00
2.00
3.00
4.00
5.00
6.00
7.00
8.00
9.00
10.00
“Cost of grains” and “management of feeding programmes to achieve performance”
were rated as the two most important concerns in all world regions.
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Business
conditions will
improve significantly
in the second
half of 2010
18%
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Slowly
improving
sales/profits
Negative
or poor
profitability
due to economic
conditions
8%
was rated the third-highest concern
by North American respondents
but ranked lower in other world
regions. Latin American respondents,
for instance, rated this challenge
next-to-last in importance among 10
challenges.
Latin American respondents, at
the same time, were out of sync
with the rest of the world in their
down-rating of “mycotoxins (and
other antinutritional factors) in
grains” as a concern. They rated this
challenge No 8 in importance out
of 10 challenges, while respondents
worldwide ranked it fourth in
importance.
North American respondents,
meantime, ranked “availability/
cost/quality of research to
support decision-making” lower
in importance than respondents
in other world regions. They
ranked “research” as their sixth
most important challenge, while
worldwide it was ranked the third
most important challenge.
The poultry nutrition sector’s business
outlook is looking mostly optimistic
worldwide.
performance” were rated as the two
most important concerns in all world
regions.
There was less agreement about
the importance of other challenges
among respondents from the
di;erent world regions. For example,
“food safety and/or supply chain risk”
Challenges of lesser
importance
Two challenges were ranked
less important by all world regions
— “discontinuation/unavailability
of antibiotics in feeds” and
“environmental concerns and/or
sustainability.”
Nonetheless, all but one of the
10 challenges was rated on average
to be at least somewhat important.
Based on the average ratings for
each challenge, there is little variance
between the most important (cost of
