LOHMANN TIERZUCHT held another successful school in Latin America. The venue was the beautiful Lake Atitlan in
Guatemala, a well-known tourist attraction in this country where LOHMANN is growing consistently year after year.
Long-lasting business relationships
In order to honor and celebrate the 25 year
partnership between LOHMANN TIERZUCHT
and our long-standing customer
Incubadora Regional, we chose Guatemala
as the host country for our Latin America
School.
At the end of the event LOHMANN
also honored all the participating distributors,
with partnerships ranging from one
year to an incredible 34 years.
Wide ranging audience and speakers
Hosted by LOHMANN and our distributor
Incubadora Regional (the Ordoñez family),
112 participants (distributors and their
direct customers) from 13 different Latin
American countries attended the event.
The presence of the LOHMANN TIERZUCHT
team, including management, geneticists,
a nutritionist, a veterinarian and
sales and technical service people, was
one of the highlights of the event.
Local
Guatemalan authorities also participated
and spoke to the high-level audience during
the two seminar days.
General content
The content covered all aspects of egg
production, such as breeding key factors
needed to get the best out of our birds,
animal welfare, nutrition, and so on. Other
important topics were the global cagefree
movement and international animal
trade issues surrounding the ever challenging
sanitary status across the world.
Last
but not least, one of our head geneticists
gave a presentation on the genetic improvements
that have taken place since the last
Latin American School held in Paraguay in
2012 and the breeding strategies that will
keep LOHMANN birds market leaders in
the years to come.
LOHMANN improvements
We also gave a presentation on the internal
improvements in hatchery infrastructure
and logistics which we have introduced
to overcome delivery challenges from and
to any country.
New tools such as the
LOHMANN apps and new management
guides designed to help egg producers get
the maximum genetic potential out of our
birds were also presented.
LOHMANN SCHOOL strengthens
business relationships
LOHMANN School is always more than a
technical event. It is still the perfect occasion
to strengthen relationships and exchange
experiences, as there are always
different points of view on egg production
under a broad range of systems.
New venue: Colombia
At LOHMANN, our guiding principle is to
keep our customers all over the world well
informed and perfectly trained. Therefore,
the new venue for the next LOHMANN
SCHOOL LATIN AMERICA was announced.
All participants have been invited to join us
again in Cali, Colombia in 2018. LOHMANN
TIERZUCHT and our Colombian customer
Pronavicola are very much looking forward
to hosting another edition of this successful
event.
Thomas Abdo Calil