When immersed in the world of agriculture where the day-to-day means checking animals, seeding crops, and spending a good amount of time removed from the majority of urban consumers, farmers can sometimes lose sight of how important their work is to the people in larger centres that they feed.
The importance of food, nutrition, and the farms that make it possible, are things that Dr. Anneline Padayachee, a nutritional food scientist out of Australia, speaks passionately about in this interview with RealAgriculture’s Amber Bell at the Western Canada Conference on Soil Health and Grazing at Edmonton, Alta.
Padayachee was first introduced to the complexities of agricultural systems while speaking at a conference in 2019. Having spent time working in the Australian food industry on products such as fortified sports supplements, breakfast cereals, and premature infant formula, she was surprised to hear from dairy farmers that would say, “I’m just a farmer.” Padayachee says that it’s due to the hard work of farmers that she had the resources necessary to create life-saving infant formula for premature babies!
Since that conference, Padayachee has spent more time working with farmers to give them the information needed to help bridge the divide between the raw product that they produce and the food that the general population consumes. “Food is that… equalizer, it is that connector,” she says.
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