Time of Antibiotic-Free Nutrition: Management Techniques of Pig Growth Potential
Piet van der Aar was born in 1955 in The Netherlands. He received a Masters Degree in animal nutrition from Wageningen University in 1979. Besides Animal Nutrition, he had Grassland production as a major and Animal Physiology and Marketing and Marketing Research as minors. During his Master phase he also spend 6 months at Cornell University at the laboratory of Dr Van Soest. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1982 in the area of Nutritional Biochemistry on the Thesis : Effect of alcohol-water treatments on the utilization of soy bean meal by ruminants at the University of Illinois, Since 1982 he works at Schothorst Feed Research B.V. In this organization he has held position as researcher ruminants, coordinator swine research, and managing director. Currently he coordinates the research activities of the institute (22 academics) and responsible for the international activities.
The organization has knowledge transfer contracts with feed companies in 20 countries in Europe and Asia. These companies produce approx. 5 to 6% of the global feed production. Only in the last 2 years, Dr van der Aar has giving invited 20 speeches and lectures on topics regarding implementation of scientific knowledge in feed formulation.
Next to his activities for Schothorst Feed Research Dr van der Aar is member of the non managing board of different organizations.