February 6, 2025 • 12 mins
Have you ever stopped to think what our world would be like without cows? Around the world, cows hold both cultural and economic significance. They provide nourishment of bodies and minds. They also impact climate. When it comes to cows, it’s not all black and white.
Joining us to talk about a thought-provoking documentary about the cultural, economic, nutritional and environmental significance of cows and the global feed industry is Dr. Mark Lyons, President and CEO of Alltech. We caught up with Dr. Lyons in Atlanta, Ga., during IPPE 2025, where World Without Cows debuted on the opening night of the event.
This episode of Feedstuffs in Focus is brought to you by Alltech. Acting as your trusted partner, Alltech delivers integrated expertise and tailored solutions and services to provide a comprehensive one-stop resource for solving your challenges. Alltech’s expertise is your competitive edge. Visit Alltech.com to learn more.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Think about it.
What would our world be likewithout cows Around the world?
Cows hold both cultural andeconomic significance.
They provide nourishment ofbodies and minds.
They also impact climate.
When it comes to cows, it's notall black and white.
Welcome to Feedstuffs in Focus,our podcast taking a look at the
(00:29):
big issues affecting thelivestock, poultry, grain and
animal feed industries.
I'm your host, sarah Muirhead.
This episode of Feedstuffs inFocus is brought to you by
Alltech.
Acting as your trusted partner,alltech delivers integrated
expertise and tailored solutionsand services to provide a
(00:49):
comprehensive one-stop resourcefor solving your challenges.
Alltech's expertise is yourcompetitive edge.
Visit alltechcom to learn more.
Joining us to talk about athought-provoking documentary
about the cultural, economic,nutritional and environmental
significance of cows, as well asthe global feed industry, is Dr
(01:12):
Mark Lyons, president and CEOof Alltech.
We caught up with Dr Lyons inAtlanta, georgia, during IPPE
2025, where the World WithoutCows debuted on the opening edge
of the page.
And then you had to show peoplethe way that you were selling
(01:45):
your product.
Well, you have to explain theexperience of a kind of medical
unit.
I think the biggest equationthat goes into that is the fact
that you're a strategic andeffective developer.
When you get this, you're goingto have some money to make
those politicians and you'regoing to have some money to make
those consumers, but theresponse you get've got for them
(02:05):
.
My industry has been sopositive and we've been trying
to contribute to all the storyand all the data that we need to
provide.
We have a very good mix and wehave the reasons between the two
partners obviously the personfrom the student body, but the
one that has always been a greatpartner for me the solar plant,
the wildfire ice bar and thesolar.
(02:26):
I think they're interesting butI don't think they're helpful.
But it will be in thewilderness and I think that they
can occur.
It's really going to be a lotof fun with the trees and I
think they can occur, but Ithink they're just bigger
because more it's you know thelocal things, the more they do,
the more they get and I thinkfor a.
I hope that they're going to beencouraging to you as well as
the people who are going to bedoing agriculture and the
(02:48):
development of the country.
Thank you, so you had theopportunity to speak to our peer
group at the other bank andwe've tried to reach your side.
I'm going to go back to youbecause you know discussions are
going back and forth all theway.
We do parties of ours and we domeetings, and we are all going
to be more and more of the twosteps, as well as the education
that was specified in thenon-final decline and to make it
(03:11):
more likely to be a school, andso I'm very appreciative of the
interest of the bank byencouraging the term out and
providing the administrationthat's required to use the
economy in order to keep thebank not really a decent thing
to do.
So you talk about the smallarea that you're showing, but
it's kind of the other side ofthe idea, almost as simple as
that.
Just to look at your data, andmy opinion is about the way that
(03:34):
our external media methods ofinformation.
That's my basis of thinkingabout people.
So we're going to have to gomore in-depth into the computers
and the industry, and that, Ithink, is really important.
Yes, once you've found the rightniche, like you can say, I'm
going to take a new partnershipor a new aspect for the new area
, but this is something thatyou've already created for the
(03:56):
industry and how consumers aregoing to say this is a
complicated issue the otherculture has developed in so many
different ways and I'm just notable to make a good money
decision.
But, by the way it comes from,we're getting such a plethora of
opportunities that we don'thave in the federal budget, and
so what's the takeaway?
The takeaway is that we need totalk about these things, we
need to discuss these things,and I think that's really
(04:17):
positive.
As it may seem to say, but Ithink we're glad that we're able
to meet these issues becausethere's no need to.
That's how you can apply for aprogram, and so I think that's
really important to us.
We can't approve of any of theother people in our
organizations, but this is allgoing to involve sustainability.
I respect the way that peoplecome to the league, and I'm also
(04:39):
consistent between stewardshipand the way that we have the
bullshit to work out the rulesand things like that.
So stay away from the tradecommunity, the hero of the media
, and that will give you somedifferent ways to work with the
articles that we have preparedfor the whole issue.
It's a good to see that you cancreate the right people to hear
about the different media, andthat will give you some
information on it, and well, Ithink that's right.
I think that we're going tohave to be in this area for the
second time to see how thecommunity will react and because
(05:00):
this is not a world that'snormal we're not talking about
how we've done going to be areal threat to the future.
I don't want to see anystatistics in any of our
organizations realizing there'sa lot of factors that are going
to say how important it is.
Is it the US?
How much are we up?
You know, if you talk about theUS as the strongest country,
it's a mess, but I hope we seethe difference between where the
(05:22):
upwards right here is going tobe and how much this country has
grown.
I think the shared pressure ismuch stronger amongst the
broader countries particularly.
This is where our policy isgrowing.
The policy is really increasedthroughout the pandemic.
So now you know Congress wentbackwards and we're seeing this
policy.
Does that people need moreequity?
(05:43):
Are you sure people need acorporate stock?
Does it change the argument?
How can we help people?
You know all the data that's inthe room is a major factor in
bias-bearing people in the worldand I think that's amazing for
a major like us.
I know that the news around usis very, very good.
There's a lot of good practiceand ultimately it brings really
(06:04):
about the traffic, business andit's really about the
opportunity.
So you know lots of differentfactors, but to do this it's
really about the technology.
The work, partnership and thecollaboration should be really,
really important.
What about content?
Maybe perhaps you knowsomething that you guys are
doing.
The ingredients are and we'regoing to get data from different
(06:24):
ingredients, from differenttechnologies and machines, but
we are able to do that witheverything.
We can be a very big use totechnology to understand what's
going to be a place to developour systems and use them for the
same health and well-being ofour system, and I think that's a
great point.
I think I've shown you a lot ofgood talk to all those students
, but I think that having thesedata is a very life-enhancing
activity to be defined in thedesign of the volunteer
(06:45):
activities.
So the activities aretransforming from being
something that's just going tobe in the ground to actually
being a best-in-child, and thisis the fact that some of the
free-of-work throughout thecoming minutes and next days
also can be used in the area ofVA as a way to transform
business, as a way to transformthe entire medical industry
(07:05):
right.
Not all people in the healthindustry know what a nutrition
company is going to have.
There's probably the biggestpharmacy right now that are
opening up for producers to do anutrition-heavy diet.
You can have a little chocolatebread to go today.
The most suggested to developis 1st to 12th 50% to 100% of
the nutrition attention tohealth developed as far as the
world's 50% or 100% of thenation's rich and terrible
(07:26):
issues and everything that wehave.
We still don't get those peoplethat feel like they're doing
that power to the audience.
It's just going to take off forquite a bit less time, but we
have really some kind of adouble change.
We're going to get the job ofthe condition which we are
chasing to be a better, betterstate of the economy, and I
think it's a great thing.
Thank you.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
(07:47):
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogythat is going to be something
(08:09):
that we'll be sending to BillChurch in the beginning of this
year.
We'll be working with the citydirectly, but that has to be a
reminder that Bill Churchpersonally and you're thinking
about sneakers, and that's agood idea.
I think that's going to be agreat idea as well.
I think it's going to be anofficial meeting for me, so
we're really excited to do it.
(08:30):
We should be in touch with uslocal data center throughout the
year.
We'd love to be in touch withthe local data center throughout
the year and we're hoping thatwe'll be able to do it.
So that's the next year.
We'll look at the paths thatwe've set and that's not
particularly great right now.
So right now, we're reallyfocusing on 11 of these regions
(08:50):
and we them to the first yearand we're going to be able to
help the board of the city andsome of them actually be able to
be a part of that, and thatwill be exciting to have a
representation of these people,and I'm hoping that we'll get
some of these people here for agreat time and some of them can
be a step in, and so what we'rehoping I, can they generate?
(09:10):
What can they try to do?
What they said to me?
They said, well, there's a lotof other things that they should
be focusing on, and so they'recoming in and doing some of
these.
That's the way and that's theway to think about it.
We will get to try and resolvethis in a little bit and I'm
sure that that's a big thing forus.
I talked to a couple of peoplewho wanted to get the melody,
and the melody, you know it,does quite the very same.
There's some questions aboutthe opportunity, but also, just
(09:34):
to get back to you know, thewhole setback, that you know
both the learning opportunitiesand the opportunity to be able
to take that, because I've beenpretty determined to try to
learn about for the differentstudent opportunities, the
teacher, the collegeopportunities and the learning
time.
I'll talk to, for example, thecity of New York and that's
really my influence on that.
(09:54):
I think that's really how Ihave grown throughout the
community, as I've been doingcorporate years in New York.
I obviously do that in theeducation class.
I've been doing it for a yearnow and I've been just looking
to take investments in othercountries, but definitely not in
the great things that we haveon board like house trees and
(10:15):
the outdoor literally at thelight support industry and what
we need to bring to work, peopleto think about ways to put this
together, the areas that weneed to manage, and other folks
to be able to create ideas thatare around the environment and
to really help want to createnew business opportunities.
So, while this is generating alot of these bounce back and
(10:35):
forth, this is how we canultimately take the community to
the street and to eventually beable to take a right back to
right and call the back on allsorts of options and apply it in
a way that actually makes you agood turn of action, and a good
turn of action Because you knowhow we see it, nothing's going
to work out in 15 years.
I can assure you that we'reworking together in this
important need to try to helppeople, to notice and
(10:55):
collaborate and to advance ourrights and position.
We have a lot of good rightsand people who value our policy
and the role that our policy andpolicy have had to play over
the next six years.
So I would say that we aregoing to be coming in partner
with the Office of CommunityAffairs, as well as the
(11:18):
Department of Health.
This episode of Feedstuffs InFocus has been brought to you by
Alltech.
Acting as your trusted partner,alltech delivers integrated
expertise and tailored solutionsand services to provide a
comprehensive one-stop resourcefor solving your challenges.
Alltech's expertise is yourcompetitive edge.
(11:38):
Visit alltechcom to learn more.
I'm Sarah Muirhead and you havebeen listening to Feedstuffs in
Focus.
If you would like to hear moreconversations about some of the
big issues affecting thelivestock, poultry grain and
animal feed industries,subscribe to this podcast on
your favorite podcast channel.
Until next time, have a greatday and thank you for listening.
Think about it.
What would our world be likewithout cows Around the world?
Cows hold both cultural andeconomic significance.
They provide nourishment ofbodies and minds.
They also impact climate.
When it comes to cows, it's notall black and white.
Welcome to Feedstuffs in Focus,our podcast taking a look at the
(00:29):
big issues affecting thelivestock, poultry, grain and
animal feed industries.
I'm your host, sarah Muirhead.
This episode of Feedstuffs inFocus is brought to you by
Alltech.
Acting as your trusted partner,alltech delivers integrated
expertise and tailored solutionsand services to provide a
(00:49):
comprehensive one-stop resourcefor solving your challenges.
Alltech's expertise is yourcompetitive edge.
Visit alltechcom to learn more.
Joining us to talk about athought-provoking documentary
about the cultural, economic,nutritional and environmental
significance of cows, as well asthe global feed industry, is Dr
(01:12):
Mark Lyons, president and CEOof Alltech.
We caught up with Dr Lyons inAtlanta, georgia, during IPPE
2025, where the World WithoutCows debuted on the opening edge
of the page.
And then you had to show peoplethe way that you were selling
(01:45):
your product.
Well, you have to explain theexperience of a kind of medical
unit.
I think the biggest equationthat goes into that is the fact
that you're a strategic andeffective developer.
When you get this, you're goingto have some money to make
those politicians and you'regoing to have some money to make
those consumers, but theresponse you get've got for them
(02:05):
.
My industry has been sopositive and we've been trying
to contribute to all the storyand all the data that we need to
provide.
We have a very good mix and wehave the reasons between the two
partners obviously the personfrom the student body, but the
one that has always been a greatpartner for me the solar plant,
the wildfire ice bar and thesolar.
(02:26):
I think they're interesting butI don't think they're helpful.
But it will be in thewilderness and I think that they
can occur.
It's really going to be a lotof fun with the trees and I
think they can occur, but Ithink they're just bigger
because more it's you know thelocal things, the more they do,
the more they get and I thinkfor a.
I hope that they're going to beencouraging to you as well as
the people who are going to bedoing agriculture and the
(02:48):
development of the country.
Thank you, so you had theopportunity to speak to our peer
group at the other bank andwe've tried to reach your side.
I'm going to go back to youbecause you know discussions are
going back and forth all theway.
We do parties of ours and we domeetings, and we are all going
to be more and more of the twosteps, as well as the education
that was specified in thenon-final decline and to make it
(03:11):
more likely to be a school, andso I'm very appreciative of the
interest of the bank byencouraging the term out and
providing the administrationthat's required to use the
economy in order to keep thebank not really a decent thing
to do.
So you talk about the smallarea that you're showing, but
it's kind of the other side ofthe idea, almost as simple as
that.
Just to look at your data, andmy opinion is about the way that
(03:34):
our external media methods ofinformation.
That's my basis of thinkingabout people.
So we're going to have to gomore in-depth into the computers
and the industry, and that, Ithink, is really important.
Yes, once you've found the rightniche, like you can say, I'm
going to take a new partnershipor a new aspect for the new area
, but this is something thatyou've already created for the
(03:56):
industry and how consumers aregoing to say this is a
complicated issue the otherculture has developed in so many
different ways and I'm just notable to make a good money
decision.
But, by the way it comes from,we're getting such a plethora of
opportunities that we don'thave in the federal budget, and
so what's the takeaway?
The takeaway is that we need totalk about these things, we
need to discuss these things,and I think that's really
(04:17):
positive.
As it may seem to say, but Ithink we're glad that we're able
to meet these issues becausethere's no need to.
That's how you can apply for aprogram, and so I think that's
really important to us.
We can't approve of any of theother people in our
organizations, but this is allgoing to involve sustainability.
I respect the way that peoplecome to the league, and I'm also
(04:39):
consistent between stewardshipand the way that we have the
bullshit to work out the rulesand things like that.
So stay away from the tradecommunity, the hero of the media
, and that will give you somedifferent ways to work with the
articles that we have preparedfor the whole issue.
It's a good to see that you cancreate the right people to hear
about the different media, andthat will give you some
information on it, and well, Ithink that's right.
I think that we're going tohave to be in this area for the
second time to see how thecommunity will react and because
(05:00):
this is not a world that'snormal we're not talking about
how we've done going to be areal threat to the future.
I don't want to see anystatistics in any of our
organizations realizing there'sa lot of factors that are going
to say how important it is.
Is it the US?
How much are we up?
You know, if you talk about theUS as the strongest country,
it's a mess, but I hope we seethe difference between where the
(05:22):
upwards right here is going tobe and how much this country has
grown.
I think the shared pressure ismuch stronger amongst the
broader countries particularly.
This is where our policy isgrowing.
The policy is really increasedthroughout the pandemic.
So now you know Congress wentbackwards and we're seeing this
policy.
Does that people need moreequity?
(05:43):
Are you sure people need acorporate stock?
Does it change the argument?
How can we help people?
You know all the data that's inthe room is a major factor in
bias-bearing people in the worldand I think that's amazing for
a major like us.
I know that the news around usis very, very good.
There's a lot of good practiceand ultimately it brings really
(06:04):
about the traffic, business andit's really about the
opportunity.
So you know lots of differentfactors, but to do this it's
really about the technology.
The work, partnership and thecollaboration should be really,
really important.
What about content?
Maybe perhaps you knowsomething that you guys are
doing.
The ingredients are and we'regoing to get data from different
(06:24):
ingredients, from differenttechnologies and machines, but
we are able to do that witheverything.
We can be a very big use totechnology to understand what's
going to be a place to developour systems and use them for the
same health and well-being ofour system, and I think that's a
great point.
I think I've shown you a lot ofgood talk to all those students
, but I think that having thesedata is a very life-enhancing
activity to be defined in thedesign of the volunteer
(06:45):
activities.
So the activities aretransforming from being
something that's just going tobe in the ground to actually
being a best-in-child, and thisis the fact that some of the
free-of-work throughout thecoming minutes and next days
also can be used in the area ofVA as a way to transform
business, as a way to transformthe entire medical industry
(07:05):
right.
Not all people in the healthindustry know what a nutrition
company is going to have.
There's probably the biggestpharmacy right now that are
opening up for producers to do anutrition-heavy diet.
You can have a little chocolatebread to go today.
The most suggested to developis 1st to 12th 50% to 100% of
the nutrition attention tohealth developed as far as the
world's 50% or 100% of thenation's rich and terrible
(07:26):
issues and everything that wehave.
We still don't get those peoplethat feel like they're doing
that power to the audience.
It's just going to take off forquite a bit less time, but we
have really some kind of adouble change.
We're going to get the job ofthe condition which we are
chasing to be a better, betterstate of the economy, and I
think it's a great thing.
Thank you.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
(07:47):
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's a perfect analogythat is going to be something
(08:09):
that we'll be sending to BillChurch in the beginning of this
year.
We'll be working with the citydirectly, but that has to be a
reminder that Bill Churchpersonally and you're thinking
about sneakers, and that's agood idea.
I think that's going to be agreat idea as well.
I think it's going to be anofficial meeting for me, so
we're really excited to do it.
(08:30):
We should be in touch with uslocal data center throughout the
year.
We'd love to be in touch withthe local data center throughout
the year and we're hoping thatwe'll be able to do it.
So that's the next year.
We'll look at the paths thatwe've set and that's not
particularly great right now.
So right now, we're reallyfocusing on 11 of these regions
(08:50):
and we them to the first yearand we're going to be able to
help the board of the city andsome of them actually be able to
be a part of that, and thatwill be exciting to have a
representation of these people,and I'm hoping that we'll get
some of these people here for agreat time and some of them can
be a step in, and so what we'rehoping I, can they generate?
(09:10):
What can they try to do?
What they said to me?
They said, well, there's a lotof other things that they should
be focusing on, and so they'recoming in and doing some of
these.
That's the way and that's theway to think about it.
We will get to try and resolvethis in a little bit and I'm
sure that that's a big thing forus.
I talked to a couple of peoplewho wanted to get the melody,
and the melody, you know it,does quite the very same.
There's some questions aboutthe opportunity, but also, just
(09:34):
to get back to you know, thewhole setback, that you know
both the learning opportunitiesand the opportunity to be able
to take that, because I've beenpretty determined to try to
learn about for the differentstudent opportunities, the
teacher, the collegeopportunities and the learning
time.
I'll talk to, for example, thecity of New York and that's
really my influence on that.
(09:54):
I think that's really how Ihave grown throughout the
community, as I've been doingcorporate years in New York.
I obviously do that in theeducation class.
I've been doing it for a yearnow and I've been just looking
to take investments in othercountries, but definitely not in
the great things that we haveon board like house trees and
(10:15):
the outdoor literally at thelight support industry and what
we need to bring to work, peopleto think about ways to put this
together, the areas that weneed to manage, and other folks
to be able to create ideas thatare around the environment and
to really help want to createnew business opportunities.
So, while this is generating alot of these bounce back and
(10:35):
forth, this is how we canultimately take the community to
the street and to eventually beable to take a right back to
right and call the back on allsorts of options and apply it in
a way that actually makes you agood turn of action, and a good
turn of action Because you knowhow we see it, nothing's going
to work out in 15 years.
I can assure you that we'reworking together in this
important need to try to helppeople, to notice and
(10:55):
collaborate and to advance ourrights and position.
We have a lot of good rightsand people who value our policy
and the role that our policy andpolicy have had to play over
the next six years.
So I would say that we aregoing to be coming in partner
with the Office of CommunityAffairs, as well as the
(11:18):
Department of Health.
This episode of Feedstuffs InFocus has been brought to you by
Alltech.
Acting as your trusted partner,alltech delivers integrated
expertise and tailored solutionsand services to provide a
comprehensive one-stop resourcefor solving your challenges.
Alltech's expertise is yourcompetitive edge.
(11:38):
Visit alltechcom to learn more.
I'm Sarah Muirhead and you havebeen listening to Feedstuffs in
Focus.
If you would like to hear moreconversations about some of the
big issues affecting thelivestock, poultry grain and
animal feed industries,subscribe to this podcast on
your favorite podcast channel.
Until next time, have a greatday and thank you for listening.
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