The following is an edited transcript of Tom Martin's interview with Dr. Kayla Price, poultry technical manager for Alltech Canada. Click below to hear the full interview:
Livestock producers are scrambling in the face of a global shortage of vitamins A and E during the first half of 2018. Recent weeks have seen extreme price volatility in markets for this pair of vitamin feed components that are so vital to animal health and performance.
Vitamin E spot prices more than tripled soon after Oct. 31, 2017, when fire broke out at the BASF citral plant situated along the Rhine River in Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF is by far the world’s largest producer of citral, a key intermediate in the synthesis of vitamins A and E.
Jack Welch, executive chairman of the Jack Welch Management Institute and former chairman and CEO of General Electric, will take the stage at ONE: The Alltech Ideas Conference 2018 (ONE18) in Lexington
