EMPOWERING FARMERS
WITH PROFITABLE, PLANET-SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Growing consistent highly nutritious animal feed using significantly less water and land while also reducing carbon emissions.
AUTOMATED ON-FARM
GROW SYSTEM™
Forever Feed Technologies is a pioneering leader in automated on-farm grow systems that grow highly nutritious fresh cattle feed year-round.
EMPOWERING
FARMERS
Forever Feed Technologies empowers farmers with profitable, dependable, and intelligent technologies to grow their businesses amidst constantly changing markets and environments.
FOUNDED BY
FARMERS
Forever Feed Technologies was founded and funded by farmers looking to build a profitable and dependable future for them and their families.
PROFITABLE
Return on Investment
Forever Feed Technologies gives large scale dairy and cattle operations the ability to greatly reduce the money they spend on water, land, labor, fertilizer, and fuel used to feed their animals.
The FFT Grow System™ produces consistent energy efficient sprouted grain feed, yielding better production and a compelling return on investment for farmers and their families.
DEPENDABLE
Industrial Scale Automation Equipment
The Forever Feed Grow System™ uses industrial scale automation equipment, which has been in service for decades around the world. This ensures that the FFT Grow System will be operational and dependable every day, every month…for years.
The FFT Grow System gives major dairy and beef operations the confidence they need to meet growing demands for the foods they produce.
INTELLIGENT
FFT Grow System™ Machine Learning
The Forever Feed Grow System operating system includes a pathway for machine learning, giving it the intelligence to incorporate new growing protocols for different feed compositions.
Each harvest of ForeverFeed™ is monitored for dry matter content, consistency, nutrition, and sustainability metrics such as water and energy use.
PLANET-SMART
ANIMAL FEED
ON-FARM
FFT GROW SYSTEM™
Forever Feed Technologies has partnered with JR Automation, a global automated manufacturing technology company and subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.
Using FFT’s patented designs and ForeverFeed™ growing protocols, JR Automation will help integrate and build on-farm indoor grow systems for large-scale dairy and beef cattle producers. Together we will continue to maximize feed output, water efficiencies, and carbon emission reductions.
Together they design and deliver automated grow systems to be owned by the customer and operated with the support of Forever Feed to maximize the productivity and effectiveness of water and carbon emission reduction technologies.
Forever Feed Technologies unique designs and grow system operations are patent pending.
Established in 1980, JR Automation Technologies is a leading provider of intelligent automated manufacturing technology solutions that solve customers’ key operational and productivity challenges. JR Automation serves customers across the globe in a variety of industries, including automotive, life sciences, aerospace, and more. In 2019, JR Automation was acquired by Hitachi, Ltd.
FOREVER FEED™
SPROUTED GRAIN
FFT planet-smart Grow Systems grow ForeverFeed™, a nutritious sprouted wheat grass supplement that improves cattle health and productivity. ForeverFeed™ enriched feed also reduces “cattle belching” methane emissions by effectively changing the efficiency of the rumen.
The first enterprise-scale FFT Grow System will be in operation later this year at the River Ranch Dairy in Hanford, California, to enrich the diets of over 5,000 dairy cows.
Forever Feed has engaged with leading dairy and beef nutritionists to maximize the growth and nutrient value of ForeverFeed, and then incorporate ForeverFeed into the total mixed ration to meet the goals of the dairy or feed lot.
FFT has a comprehensive scientific research program led by botanists and laboratories who have extensive experience in grain properties, germination, nutrient values, and sustainable growing properties that are used to source the highest quality seed for the FFT Grow System™.
LEADING ANIMAL SCIENTISTS
FFT GROW SYSTEM™
BENEFITS
PRODUCTIVITY
INCREASE
A hydroponic forage study at Cornell University showed a decrease in dry matter intake and an increase in efficiency to make milk when sprouted grain is added to dairy cattle’s total mixed ration.
AgProud.com, August 1, 2023
Feed Efficiency
RESOURCE
SAVINGS
WATER
Uses 95% less water
LAND
Uses 99% less land
FUEL EMISSIONS
Requires no combines, tractors, trucks, etc.
Compared to field grown alfalfa forage:
SPROUTED
GRAIN
Highly nutritious & digestible
Consistent quality
Clean…no pesticides/herbicides
ForeverFeed™ Sprouted Grain
IMPROVED ANIMAL
PERFORMANCE
Improved nutrient digestibility
Reduced enteric methane emissions
Improved feed conversion
On-going research into sprouted grain fodder has indicated that the sprouted grains were stimulatory to rumen fermentation.
Compared to field grown forage:
FRESH FEED
24/7/365
ENTERPRISE SCALE
Automated Feed Production
DEPENDABLE
Industry Proven Engineering and Equipment
RELIABLE OPERATIONS 24/7/365
AGRICULTURE
CHALLENGES AND RISKS
ENVIRONMENTAL
RISKS
“Shifting precipitation patterns, associated with higher temperatures, are causing more intense wildfires that reduce forage on rangelands and accelerate the depletion of water supplies for irrigation.”
Shifting Precipitation & Temperature Patterns
WATER
SHORTAGES
“The megadrought in the Western U.S., now in its second decade, is the worst since 800 A.D. and any relief is not expected until 2030, according to a study published in the scientific journal Nature, Feb. 14, 2022.”
Western U.S. Megadrought
ARABLE
LAND
“U.S. agriculture currently faces some steep challenges. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent existential threats to the agricultural status quo. Farmland has become less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves.”
Farmland Becoming Less Functional
FUEL
EMISSIONS
“The agricultural sector accounted for about 9% of the Nation’s total GHG emissions in 2015, so reducing emissions in the agriculture sector could have a significant impact on total U.S. emissions. Nonetheless, agriculture is one of the few sectors with the potential for significant increases in carbon sequestration to offset GHG emissions.”
AG Sector Emits 9% of U.S. Greenhouse Gasses
METHANE
EMISSIONS
Cattle Digestion Methane - 45% of AG Emissions in the U.S.
“Methane from cattle digestion (enteric emissions) and stored manure makes up roughly 45% of those agricultural emissions nationally (or 4.5% of total emissions in the US). Increases in methane emissions due to growing livestock numbers have significant climate impacts. Conversely, reductions in methane emissions from livestock could have immediate climate benefits and could be a large component of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.”
Methane Emissions from Livestock and Climate Change, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2020
