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From REBELation- Former Ag Secretary Dan Glickman on Food Waste
Mon, 18 May 2015 16:45:02 CDTDealing with food waste- both in the US as well as on a global basis wasthe focus of comments made by the former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman at the 2015 All Tech REBELation Conference being held this week in Lexington, Ky. Three thousand participants have converged on what some call the horse capitol of the world to hear cutting edge ideas in the world of animal nutrition, human nutrition, the digital world as it relates to business and even in the arena of brewing craft beer.
The Alltech Company was founded by Dr.Pearse Lyons when he traveled from Ireland to Kentucky in 1980 and established a tiny company that was designed to offer different solutions to the world of animal agriculture when it came to nutritional challenges of maximum production in a natural way.
The 2015 International Conference is being called REBELation- and has a total of 11 individual tracks along with three general sessions over the three days. In addition, three of the tracks were joined together on Monday afternoon to hear from former Ag Secretary and Kansas Congressman Dan Glickman, who talked about the challenge of cutting down on the thirty to forty percent of the food produced that is wasted in a variety of ways.
Farm Director Ron Hays sat down and talked to the Secretary after his presentation to the Alltech crowd- and you can hear the conversation they had on domestic and international food waste, Ag Research in the food waste arena and even some give and take on the importance of Walmart in today's food dialogue between the industry and the consumer.
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Ron Hays talks with former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman about food waste more.
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