What do a Formula 1 team and a modern dairy farm have in common? That is the question at the heart of the 25th episode of the KWS PODCAST, in which experts from TAS AGRO and KWS-UKRAINE examine the agri-engineering model behind industrial livestock farming.
In racing, the winner is not the driver who simply floors the accelerator, but the one whose engineers have calculated aerodynamics, fuel consumption and engine performance to the millisecond. The rules in industrial livestock farming are the same. A modern mega-farm is high-precision engineering, where the field generates energy, technology stores it, and the cow converts it into capital.
The episode features Ruslan Vyshnevy, Head of the Livestock Department at TAS AGRO, and Andriy Bilous, Feeding Specialist at KWS-UKRAINE.
Three strategic topics are covered:
- the economics of the dairy business in 2026 — feed costs by region, cost optimisation and the point at which excessive cost-cutting starts destroying profitability;
- digital herd telemetry, real-time feeding efficiency monitoring, the meat market outlook and a buffalo breeding case study as an example of premium niche farming;
- a long-term outlook to 2035 — whether forage procurement will become a standalone commodity trade, and whether large companies should stay in raw material production or build a closed-loop model with deep processing and bioenergy.
KWS’s narrowly specialised silage hybrids for winter rye and maize give producers a tool for precise ration modelling in the field — a new standard for Ukrainian dairy that is efficient, calculable and competitive.
Source: KWS PODCAST #25 (YouTube)
