AIC launches careers booklet to encourage new entrants into UK animal feed sector
A careers booklet aimed at attracting new entrants into the animal feed supply chain has been published by the Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC).
The booklet - "Careers in the Animal Feed Supply Chain" - was created by AIC's Feed Future Forum, a group of younger Members of the agri-supply trade, to equip the next generation with the knowledge and better understanding of what a career in the UK's livestock feed industry looks like and why it's so rewarding.
Available as a hard copy and as a digital download, the booklet offers information on a wide range of roles within the animal feed supply chain, including technical, procurement, sustainability, logistics, IT and engineering.
The AIC Feed Future Forum aims to promote the booklet at careers shows and events in the coming months.
Wide range of opportunities
The animal feed industry is worth over £4.5 billion to the UK economy and produces 16 million tonnes of safe, nutritious and sustainable feed every year.
James McCulloch, AIC's Head of Animal Feed, said: "Producing feed for livestock means the nation's farmers can raise healthy animals and produce meat, milk, butter, cheese, eggs, and fish to nourish the nation's families.
"This work requires one essential ingredient – people with a wide range of skills and interests. Without a workforce, the feed sector cannot play its part in feeding the nation.
"This careers booklet showcases the wide range of opportunities within the feed sector of the agri-supply industry, explaining how it offers an exciting and fulfilling career.
"Helping feed animals with safe, nutritious, and sustainable feed means that we can all have access to the same healthy, nutritious, and sustainable food – what could be more important than that?"
To view and download a digital PDF copy of the booklet and promotional A5 flyer, click below. To request a hard copy, please email [email protected].
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About AIC
As the UK agricultural supply industry's leading trade association, the Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) represents businesses in key sectors within the supply chains that feed the nation.
Its Member businesses supply UK farmers and growers with the animal feed, fertiliser, seed, crop protection products, trusted advice and quality services that are essential to producing food, as well as trading crops and commodities across the globe.
Formed in October 2003 by a merger of three trade associations, today AIC has over 230 Members in the agri-supply trade and represents £17.8 billion* turnover at farmgate.
AIC works on behalf of its Members by lobbying policymakers and stakeholders, delivering information, providing trade assurance schemes, and offering technical support.
AIC Services manages a range of services, including Trade Assurance Schemes and professional registers recognised by the UK Government as essential means to underpin feed and food safety alongside fertiliser security.
These schemes and professional registers include:
- Trade Assurance Scheme for Combinable Crops (TASCC)
- Feed Materials Assurance Scheme (FEMAS)
- Universal Feed Assurance Scheme (UFAS)
- European Seed Treatment Assurance (ESTA)
- Fertiliser Industry Assurance Scheme (FIAS)
- Feed Adviser Register (FAR)
- Renewable Energy Directive (RED)
- Forage Assurance Scheme (FAA)
- AIC Services Palm Oil Credit Scheme (APOCS)
*According to a 2023 survey of AIC Members.
Press Contact
Oli Hill, Head of Communications, AIC
+44 (0)1733 385230
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Oli Hill
As Head of Communications, Oli creates and oversees the content published on AIC's website, emails, Member briefings, print publications, and social media. A qualified multimedia journalist, he previously spent six years working at Farmers Weekly magazine as a Senior Reporter on the arable team, and latterly as Community Editor. More recently he was Communications Manager at Red Tractor.
