“We have to stay vigilant…. we are still in a very volatile situation,” said Alexander Döring, secretary general, FEFAC, in a Feed Matters podcast.
Referring to the problems in slaughterhouses, which first emerged in the US, but have also hit a number of such facilities in European markets, he said that, in the main, the EU feed production sector has been able, to date, to implement social distancing rules.
“The social distancing rule is a key issue for all actors of the food and feed chain. But a key learning is that more needs to be done, more needs to be considered to ensure our facilities can continue to operate; most of our feed mills work on a 24/7 basis, so there has been major adaptations in the way workforce shifts are organized, and there has been training [provided] for truck drivers to ensure safe delivery of feed on farm. What has helped in this respect has been the heavy investment in biosecurity by the sector,” said Döring.
There were also insights gained into what technological innovation could bring to the sector, in terms of supporting remote working, for example.
“Technology was definitely a key helper to ensure that crucial control room functions were able to be moved into home office environments. That clearly has been a huge asset [in the past few months]. Previous investments, [earlier] upgrades of IT [operations] in control rooms have been essential for a smooth transition [of such mill control functions] into a home office environment for key staff.”
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