Nutrition: Key in reducing antibiotics

The goal to reduce antibiotic use is ultimately a goal to produce healthy production systems. Therefore, we need to seek out solutions for health rather than treatments for our diseased production systems. Decades of research for alternatives to antibiotics have provided few good alternatives. Many antibiotic reduction programmes are focused on biosecurity, vaccinations and management systems, but fail to embrace the importance of feed and nutrition in creating healthy animals. The key to a hea