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For AB Agri, building more sustainable ecosystems means optimising land use across both individual farms and entire food systems. This approach helps to ensure that land is effectively utilised at all levels for food and feed production, carbon storage, energy generation and human activities.
Dairy cow at a customer farm in Somerset, UK
AB Agri evaluates the livestock farming ecosystem to identify commercial opportunities and develop solutions to address key challenges within the agricultural sector. These include improving the efficiency of essential agricultural inputs, such as carbon dioxide for plant growth and nitrogen for livestock feed, which contribute to climate change. Improving the efficiency of these inputs and optimising the use of nutrients can help to reduce GHG emissions per unit of food produced while helping to maintain food affordability.
Science and research are the cornerstones of AB Agri’s approach. Underpinned by its community of scientists, all commercial solutions developed by its businesses are rigorously assessed for safety and to demonstrate efficacy. Its businesses invest in researching scientific advancements by collaborating with universities and use their own laboratories and trial sites. These include the AB Neo Centre of Excellence trial farm in Spain and the Amur laboratory at the University of York Science Park.
Industry groups and bodies play an essential role in agriculture. They help to improve food production standards and represent agricultural businesses in interactions with stakeholders such as consumers and governments. AB Agri businesses and employees actively participate in industry organisations at national and international levels. These include representation on the Agriculture Industries Confederation (‘AIC’), FEFAC, the International Feed Industry Federation, the British Equestrian Trade Association, and the Global Feed LCA Institute, to which AB Agri’s Product Innovation Expert was appointed as Vice Chair in early 2026.
For AB Agri, more sustainable ecosystems relate to both individual farms and whole food systems, where land use is optimised for food and feed production, carbon storage, energy generation and human use.
Supporting customers to improve their farm ecosystems is an increasingly important part of AB Agri’s approach in this area.
AB Sustain connects farmers, processors and retailers with practical tools and programmes, including its Farm Footprints service, which enables major food producers to measure their on-farm GHG emissions.
Kite Consulting provides on-farm advisory services, including support to help improve nutrient efficiency and GHG emissions reduction. Partnerships, such as the 2025 Müller Fast Track programme, demonstrate how real-time data and digital tools, including Feedlync, can enable more responsive, data-driven decision-making at farm level.
Alongside this advisory capability, AB Agri has committed to calculating the environmental footprint of all branded animal nutrition products by 2027. This work, underpinned by robust datasets and externally peer reviewed methodology, will enable customers to better understand and potentially reduce feed-related GHG emissions, with tools such as Premier Nutrition’s Equine Feed Emissions Calculator, translating complex data into practical insights. Together, these initiatives illustrate how AB Agri is integrating science, data and advisory services to support more efficient, lower-impact farming systems.
AB Agri invests in researching and developing alternative protein sources. NovaPro, its dairy feed produced from UK-grown rapeseed, was awarded the UK’s Royal Dairy Innovation Award in 2021, in recognition of its ability to boost productivity while entirely removing the need for soya in dairy cow diets.
In managing its supply chain, AB Agri prioritises the safety and quality of its products while respecting the lives and livelihoods of those within the supply chain and the environment. AB Agri recognises the unique contribution that each business along the value chain plays, from micronutrient producers for animal feed to milk processors. AB Agri assesses its supply chain risk against criteria aligned to its Care Factors and has prioritised mapping specific ingredients with high inherent risk or where a single market supplies over 90% of global demand. In complex areas where traceability is challenging, AB Agri believes that transparency and strong supply chain governance are critical and recognises the opportunity to further enhance traceability through effective use of technology.
As a user of soya and palm oil derivatives, AB Agri aims to mitigate the risks associated with forest-risk commodities.
New laws addressing deforestation, such as the EU Deforestation Regulation (‘EUDR’), will require new supply chain practices across global markets, especially with respect to traceability and data management. AB Agri is working closely with external bodies such as the European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation (‘FEFAC’), AIC, suppliers and customers, and internally with its purchasing and commercial teams, to build knowledge, capability and develop enhanced processes across its supply chains to address these requirements. AB Agri has reassessed its forest-risk commodity targets, taking into account new regulatory requirements, as well as emerging market expectations and best practices.
AB Agri has a long-standing commitment to managing deforestation risk in its supply chains. Its approach focuses on the agricultural commodities most relevant to the business and where there is a recognised risk of deforestation within global supply chains. For AB Agri businesses, these commodities are palm oil, soya and maize.
To manage deforestation risk, AB Agri requires these commodities and their derivatives to meet at least one of the following requirements:
AB Agri’s progress against these requirements for calendar year 2025 is set out below:
1.Countries classified as low risk under the EUDR country benchmarking system.
2.AB Agri-approved schemes are RSPO for palm oil, FEFAC-benchmarked schemes for soya and Round Table on Responsible Soy Association (‘RTRS’) for maize, either under a book and claim chain-of-custody model or higher (e.g. mass balance, segregated or identity preserved supply chain models).
3.Where a commodity falls within the scope of deforestation-specific legislation such as the EUDR, compliance with that legislation is accepted as meeting this requirement.
Consumers expect the global agricultural industry to uphold high standards of animal health and welfare in livestock farming. AB Agri uses its technical expertise to help support animal health through advanced technology and better nutrition. Animal health and welfare relates to a broad spectrum of considerations, from disease prevention to stocking density and other living condition factors. These are best described by the Five Domains Model for animal health and welfare, which forms the basis of AB Agri’s Animal Health and Welfare Policy.
Antimicrobial resistance is recognised as a threat to human health and the livestock sector has been making efforts to reduce antibiotic use for decades. In 2016, a UN declaration encouraged governments to work together on responsible antibiotic use and international co-operation on the topic. While significant progress has been made, concerns remain around the risk and impact of disease, which can lead to reduced production rates and lead to waste. To minimise this risk, AB Agri has operational procedures in place to prevent being a vector in the spread of diseases in customer farms.
AB Agri’s Animal Health and Welfare Policy also describes the indirect roles that its NMR laboratory services business and its dairy consultancy business, Kite Consulting, play in supporting improvements in animal health and welfare in dairy farms across the UK. AB Agri’s Animal Health and Welfare Steering Committee, which is responsible for monitoring and responding to animal health and welfare challenges, has mapped the top five focus areas across its species groups: pigs, poultry, ruminants, pets and equines. They are:
AB Agri has mapped where its businesses can offer support to livestock farmers and horse and pet owners in these areas.
It annually reviews these five areas of focus to ensure it continues to offer relevant products and services, including technical consultation to improve health and welfare across the industry. Four material components: genetics, nutrition, management and testing and monitoring, work in harmony to better support animal health and welfare today and in the future.
AB Agri’s approach is to focus on proactively protecting animal health and supporting immune systems through nutritional strategies, monitoring and advice.
AB Agri’s business, AB Neo, which focuses on neonatal and maternal stages in animals, uses its Centre of Excellence trial farm facility in Spain to better understand the impact of early nutrition for piglets. This has included trials focused on supporting gut health during the transition period when a piglet’s diet shifts from milk to solid feed. This is a critical period for piglets, due to significant changes in the gut environment. By optimising the diet during this phase, AB Neo aims to harness its transition-period expertise to help the animal maintain robust health.
Alongside its investment in scientific research and trial capabilities, AB Agri continues to extend its expertise into complementary areas of animal health and wellness. In 2026, Global Supplements launched the Natural VetCare brand, a veterinary-led pet supplementation range designed to support everyday wellbeing through proactive, nutrition-based care. Developed by veterinary professionals and nutritionists, Natural VetCare offers a portfolio of clinically formulated products targeting key areas such as mobility, digestion, skin health, calmness and healthy ageing, using proven ingredients at effective inclusion levels.
The range reflects a broader shift from reactive treatment towards preventative, daily health management, helping to maintain quality of life and support long-term vitality rather than addressing issues only once they arise. By combining AB Agri’s nutritional science capabilities with veterinary insight and brand-led consumer engagement, Natural VetCare strengthens the Group’s ability to apply its knowledge beyond traditional livestock nutrition, supporting animal wellbeing across a wider ecosystem while reinforcing its focus on responsible, science-led approaches to animal health.
The AB Agri Animal Health and Welfare Steering Committee oversees the AB Agri Animal Testing Policy, which applies to all its business activities involving animal testing1. As part of the approval process for any trials that are defined as animal testing, an independent third-party expert reviewer evaluates all new trial protocols and the justifications for performing the trial. The reviewer has the authority to challenge any aspect of the trial, and it cannot be approved until any concerns have been satisfactorily addressed. For any further information on this process, please see the AB Agri Animal Health and Welfare Policy on the AB Agri website.
1.Defined as scientific procedures performed on living animals outside of what an animal would expect to experience either in its natural environment or in a typical domestic or farmed situation.
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A colleague sampling feed at our ABN mill, Enstone, UK
Piglet feed, AB Neo Centre of Excellence
Milk testing at NMR laboratory in Wolverhampton, UK
The Zilcalm supplement, produced by AB Agri's NutriLabs business
