“We will be able to feed nine billion people in 2050”

Being an entrepreneur in the feed industry, one needs a unique mix of optimism, curiosity and perseverance. Pioneering in the field of natural feed additives, like probiotics and mycotoxin deactivation, Erich Erber, founder of Biomin, is like walking a road which is full of trial and error. Nothing, however, could take away the focus of delivering innovative products. By Vincent ter Beek “It was just great fun, to create something new. In the early eighties, the use of antibiotics was the