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(664, 1, '2016-10-09 09:41:05', '2016-10-09 06:41:05', '<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-28 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo-300x184.png\" alt=\"lts-logo\" width=\"448\" height=\"275\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Lives</strong><strong>tock Trade Services (LTS) is a UK-based private holding company that houses country-level livestock inspection, certification, quality assurance, and traceability services for the export trade in livestock and meat. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Additionally, LTS is the parent company for Agri-Secure International, a Kenyan based river side livestock fattening and finishing farm that specializes in the production or high-quality feed and livestock for discerning importing markets. </strong>\r\n<h1><strong>Adding Value </strong><strong>to Livestock and Meat</strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Livestock Trade Services was formed to work independent of, but with livestock and meat exporters, importers, governments, producers and processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-87 alignnone\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"437\" height=\"246\" /></a></li>\r\n 	<li>As an independent specialized service provider, LTS works only in livestock and meat. Our proprietary Animal Passport and Traceability system provide quality  assurance that our products are what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We strive to increase consumer and governmental trust and confidence in any product we handle.  This is why we guarantee our products to be what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS was formed in 2005 in London. Operations are in the Horn of Africa and the GCC with plans for extension into Middle East Countries.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We serve exporters, importers, and governments. In addition, we provide training and consulting services to live animal and meat export processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Our Activities and Projects </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Quarantine Operations &amp; Management </strong>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"421\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"421\" height=\"237\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<div id=\"OmanAboutUs\">\r\n<h3></h3>\r\n<h3>Export Quarantine from Oman to the UAE</h3>\r\nLTS has been contracted by a major UAE importer to operate and manage an export quarantine from Oman to the UAE.  LTS works under the supervision of the Sultanate of Oman and with guidance and direction from UAE, the importing country.  The quarantine operates according to strict LTS protocols and procedures.\r\n\r\nIn addition to quarantine services, LTS provides livestock selection, purchase, and transport services for the UAE importing company.\r\n\r\n<div  id=\"KenyaExportQuarantine\">\r\n<h3>Export Quarantine from Kenya to GCC, ME, and Asia</h3>\r\nLTS is planning to begin livestock export quarantine operations and management activities in the near future from Kenya.\r\n\r\nOur services will include livestock selection, fattening and finishing, transport supervision, animal welfare, quarantine services, and quarantined shipping services to ensure that all animals arrive on spec &amp; <em>disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free</em>.\r\n<h2><strong>Livestock Fattening, Finishing &amp; Meat Export </strong></h2>\r\n<h3><strong>Kenya Meat Export</strong></h3>\r\nWorking with a quality-oriented livestock exporter, Blue Mountain Meat and Livestock, LTS conducts production, supply, and processing chain management to ensure meat exported meets importer specifications and is hygienic, wholesome and disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free.\r\n\r\nLTS also undertakes innovative fattening and finishing operations to ensure a reliable supply of consistent quality is provided to the importer.\r\n\r\nIn addition, LTS liaises with Blue Mountain to identify appropriate clients, negotiate contracts and pricing and facilitating Shari’ah Compliant financing.\r\n<h3> <strong>Kenya Meat and Livestock Exporters Association</strong></h3>\r\nAs the Specialized Livestock Service Provider for Kenya meat and livestock exporters, LTS is working to create quality products for exporters, moving them up the value chain, increasing profits and ensuring a smooth flow of meat and livestock to the destination port.\r\n<h3><strong>Slaughterhouse Operations &amp; Management — new slaughterhouse</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-234 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"basra-slaugherhouse-1\" width=\"298\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/management/\">Management</a>     <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/operational-partners/\">Operational Partners </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/publications/\">Publications </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>\r\n\r\n</div>', 'About Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '48-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 09:41:05', '2016-10-09 06:41:05', '', 48, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/48-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(665, 1, '2016-10-09 09:47:08', '2016-10-09 06:47:08', '<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-28 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo-300x184.png\" alt=\"lts-logo\" width=\"448\" height=\"275\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Lives</strong><strong>tock Trade Services (LTS) is a UK-based private holding company that houses country-level livestock inspection, certification, quality assurance, and traceability services for the export trade in livestock and meat. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Additionally, LTS is the parent company for Agri-Secure International, a Kenyan based river side livestock fattening and finishing farm that specializes in the production or high-quality feed and livestock for discerning importing markets. </strong>\r\n<h1><strong>Adding Value </strong><strong>to Livestock and Meat</strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Livestock Trade Services was formed to work independent of, but with livestock and meat exporters, importers, governments, producers and processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-87 alignnone\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"437\" height=\"246\" /></a></li>\r\n 	<li>As an independent specialized service provider, LTS works only in livestock and meat. Our proprietary Animal Passport and Traceability system provide quality  assurance that our products are what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We strive to increase consumer and governmental trust and confidence in any product we handle.  This is why we guarantee our products to be what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS was formed in 2005 in London. Operations are in the Horn of Africa and the GCC with plans for extension into Middle East Countries.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We serve exporters, importers, and governments. In addition, we provide training and consulting services to live animal and meat export processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Our Activities and Projects </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Quarantine Operations &amp; Management </strong>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"421\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"421\" height=\"237\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<div id=\"OmanAboutUs\">\r\n<h3></h3>\r\n<h3>Export Quarantine from Oman to the UAE</h3>\r\nLTS has been contracted by a major UAE importer to operate and manage an export quarantine from Oman to the UAE.  LTS works under the supervision of the Sultanate of Oman and with guidance and direction from UAE, the importing country.  The quarantine operates according to strict LTS protocols and procedures.\r\n\r\nIn addition to quarantine services, LTS provides livestock selection, purchase, and transport services for the UAE importing company.\r\n<div id=\"KenyaExportQuarantine\">\r\n<h3>Export Quarantine from Kenya to GCC, ME, and Asia</h3>\r\nLTS is planning to begin livestock export quarantine operations and management activities in the near future from Kenya.\r\n\r\nOur services will include livestock selection, fattening and finishing, transport supervision, animal welfare, quarantine services, and quarantined shipping services to ensure that all animals arrive on spec &amp; <em>disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free</em>.\r\n\r\n<div id=\"KenyaMeatExport\">\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>Livestock Fattening, Finishing &amp; Meat Export </strong></h2>\r\n<h3><strong>Kenya Meat Export</strong></h3>\r\nWorking with a quality-oriented livestock exporter, Blue Mountain Meat and Livestock, LTS conducts production, supply, and processing chain management to ensure meat exported meets importer specifications and is hygienic, wholesome and disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free.\r\n\r\nWe offer grass-fed, grain-finished, and organic meat products.\r\n\r\nLTS also undertakes innovative fattening and finishing operations to ensure a reliable supply of consistent quality is provided to the importer.\r\n\r\nIn addition, LTS liaises with Blue Mountain to identify appropriate clients, negotiate contracts and pricing and facilitating Shari’ah Compliant financing.\r\n<h3> <strong>Kenya Meat and Livestock Exporters Association</strong></h3>\r\nAs the Specialized Livestock Service Provider for Kenya meat and livestock exporters, LTS is working to create quality products for exporters, moving them up the value chain, increasing profits and ensuring a smooth flow of meat and livestock to the destination port.\r\n<h3><strong>Slaughterhouse Operations &amp; Management — new slaughterhouse</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-234 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"basra-slaugherhouse-1\" width=\"298\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/management/\">Management</a>     <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/operational-partners/\">Operational Partners </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/publications/\">Publications </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>', 'About Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '48-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 09:47:08', '2016-10-09 06:47:08', '', 48, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/48-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(666, 1, '2016-10-09 09:48:18', '2016-10-09 06:48:18', 'Livestock investment opportunities are exceptional.  They offer many a high degree of liquidity (livestock assets), rapid cycling, which means more rapid returns to the investor, and, using emerging technologies, modern veterinary medicine an integration with IT (information technology) carry a lower risk than many alternative investments.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_441\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"359\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Revenues-Costs-Profits.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-441\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Revenues-Costs-Profits-300x194.png\" alt=\"Revenue, Expenses &amp; profit growth years 1-3. Quarantine Operatoins and Management and livestock supply activities.\" width=\"359\" height=\"232\" /></a> Revenue, Expenses &amp; profit growth years 1-3. Quarantine Operations and Management and livestock supply activities.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>‎<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">Long &amp; Short-term Opportunities</a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid exit possible --- 2 years or less</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Long-term equity participation equally possible</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWe are highly ethical in our work and are fully open and transparent, providing our investors with checks and balances that secure their interests, including real-time access to Internet-based accounts and financial records.\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Food Security Investment Opportunities </strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">The livestock export sector from Africa, S. Asia, and the Middle East has been virtually unchanged for hundreds of years providing superb opportunities for update and change which can dramatically increase profits and reliability.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_304\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"401\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-Pasture.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-304\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-Pasture-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Goats on the virgin organic pastures of the Horn of Africa. \" width=\"401\" height=\"301\" /></a> Goats on the virgin organic pastures of the Horn of Africa.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">The meat export sector from these regions hasn\'t changed for nearly 100 years making this sector ripe for feeding, management animal welfare, and processing changes that can produce much better meat that is more desirable and more profitable.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Why Livestock? <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dirie-Cattle-Athi-River-DSC008981-3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-245\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dirie-Cattle-Athi-River-DSC008981-3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"dirie-cattle-athi-river-dsc008981\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Demand for Livestock and Meat in the GCC &amp; ME is growing at unprecedented rates and prices are increasing yearly</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">How healthy are they when they reach?\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">With good management and modern health care &amp; disease prevention, they maintain good health and deaths are very rare, generally less than 1 or 2%</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Livestock is profitable investment</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid turnover, multiple cycles per month means profits build fast</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid start-up means profits quickly roll in (rather than taking months or years as is typical in other investments)</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Livestock are <em>real</em> assets you can see, touch, and feel (unlike stock market paper)</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Livestock are highly liquid livestock assets can quickly be turned into cash</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Our Investment Opportunities</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Range in size from several hundred thousand dollars to several million dollars</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>GCC Region</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#OmanAboutUs\" target=\"_blank\">Oman</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_443\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Buraimi-Quarantine-Goats-Feeding-Paint-Reduced.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-443\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Buraimi-Quarantine-Goats-Feeding-Paint-Reduced-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Goats feeding at the Buraimi, Oman Quarantine.\" width=\"300\" height=\"533\" /></a> Goats feeding at the Buraimi, Oman Quarantine.[/caption]\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Horn of Africa Region</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaMeatExport\" target=\"_blank\">Organic, grass-fed, and grain-fed meat from Kenya</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_166\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"380\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tarquin-Sheep-Mara-Mountain.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-166\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tarquin-Sheep-Mara-Mountain-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"tarquin-sheep-mara-mountain\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" /></a> Kenyan sheep on virgin organic pastures. Most of our livestock are purchased from pastoralists, permitting us to support livelihoods in marginalized areas.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">Livestock Export from Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaExportQuarantine\" target=\"_blank\">Quarantine Operations and Management in Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">New slaughterhouse management in Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">100,000-acre riverside farm in Kenya</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"392\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"392\" height=\"221\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>', 'Investor Relations', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '130-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 09:48:18', '2016-10-09 06:48:18', '', 130, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/130-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(667, 1, '2016-10-09 09:53:22', '2016-10-09 06:53:22', 'Livestock investment opportunities are exceptional.  They offer many a high degree of liquidity (livestock assets), rapid cycling, which means more rapid returns to the investor, and, using emerging technologies, modern veterinary medicine an integration with IT (information technology) carry a lower risk than many alternative investments.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_441\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"359\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Revenues-Costs-Profits.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-441\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Revenues-Costs-Profits-300x194.png\" alt=\"Revenue, Expenses &amp; profit growth years 1-3. Quarantine Operatoins and Management and livestock supply activities.\" width=\"359\" height=\"232\" /></a> Revenue, Expenses &amp; profit growth years 1-3. Quarantine Operations and Management and livestock supply activities.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>‎<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">Long &amp; Short-term Opportunities</a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid exit possible --- 2 years or less</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Long-term equity participation equally possible</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWe are highly ethical in our work and are fully open and transparent, providing our investors with checks and balances that secure their interests, including real-time access to Internet-based accounts and financial records.\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Food Security Investment Opportunities </strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">The livestock export sector from Africa, S. Asia, and the Middle East has been virtually unchanged for hundreds of years providing superb opportunities for update and change which can dramatically increase profits and reliability.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_304\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"401\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-Pasture.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-304\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-Pasture-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Goats on the virgin organic pastures of the Horn of Africa. \" width=\"401\" height=\"301\" /></a> Goats on the virgin organic pastures of the Horn of Africa.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">The meat export sector from these regions hasn\'t changed for nearly 100 years making this sector ripe for feeding, management animal welfare, and processing changes that can produce much better meat that is more desirable and more profitable.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Why Livestock? <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dirie-Cattle-Athi-River-DSC008981-3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-245\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dirie-Cattle-Athi-River-DSC008981-3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"dirie-cattle-athi-river-dsc008981\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Demand for Livestock and Meat in the GCC &amp; ME is growing at unprecedented rates and prices are increasing yearly</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">How healthy are they when they reach?\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">With good management and modern health care &amp; disease prevention, they maintain good health and deaths are very rare, generally less than 1 or 2%</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Livestock is profitable investment</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid turnover, multiple cycles per month means profits build fast</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid start-up means profits quickly roll in (rather than taking months or years as is typical in other investments)</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Livestock are <em>real</em> assets you can see, touch, and feel (unlike stock market paper)</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Livestock are highly liquid livestock assets can quickly be turned into cash</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Our Investment Opportunities</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Range in size from several hundred thousand dollars to several million dollars</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>GCC Region</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#OmanAboutUs\" target=\"_blank\">Oman</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_443\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Buraimi-Quarantine-Goats-Feeding-Paint-Reduced.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-443\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Buraimi-Quarantine-Goats-Feeding-Paint-Reduced-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Goats feeding at the Buraimi, Oman Quarantine.\" width=\"300\" height=\"533\" /></a> Goats feeding at the Buraimi, Oman Quarantine.[/caption]\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Horn of Africa Region</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaMeatExport\" target=\"_blank\">Organic, grass-fed, and grain-fed meat from Kenya</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_166\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"380\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tarquin-Sheep-Mara-Mountain.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-166\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tarquin-Sheep-Mara-Mountain-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"tarquin-sheep-mara-mountain\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" /></a> Kenyan sheep on virgin organic pastures. Most of our livestock are purchased from pastoralists, permitting us to support livelihoods in marginalized areas.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaExportQuarantine\" target=\"_blank\">Livestock Export from Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaExportQuarantine\" target=\"_blank\">Quarantine Operations and Management in Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">New slaughterhouse management in Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">100,000-acre riverside farm in Kenya</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"392\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"392\" height=\"221\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>', 'Investor Relations', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '130-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 09:53:22', '2016-10-09 06:53:22', '', 130, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/130-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(668, 1, '2016-10-09 09:59:47', '2016-10-09 06:59:47', '<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-28 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo-300x184.png\" alt=\"lts-logo\" width=\"448\" height=\"275\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Lives</strong><strong>tock Trade Services (LTS) is a UK-based private holding company that houses country-level livestock inspection, certification, quality assurance, and traceability services for the export trade in livestock and meat. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Additionally, LTS is the parent company for Agri-Secure International, a Kenyan based river side livestock fattening and finishing farm that specializes in the production or high-quality feed and livestock for discerning importing markets. </strong>\r\n<h1><strong>Adding Value </strong><strong>to Livestock and Meat</strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Livestock Trade Services was formed to work independent of, but with livestock and meat exporters, importers, governments, producers and processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-87 alignnone\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"437\" height=\"246\" /></a></li>\r\n 	<li>As an independent specialized service provider, LTS works only in livestock and meat. Our proprietary Animal Passport and Traceability system provide quality  assurance that our products are what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We strive to increase consumer and governmental trust and confidence in any product we handle.  This is why we guarantee our products to be what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS was formed in 2005 in London. Operations are in the Horn of Africa and the GCC with plans for extension into Middle East Countries.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We serve exporters, importers, and governments. In addition, we provide training and consulting services to live animal and meat export processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1><strong>Our Activities and Projects </strong></h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Operations &amp; Management </strong></h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"421\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"421\" height=\"237\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<div id=\"OmanAboutUs\">\r\n<h3></h3>\r\n<h3>Export Quarantine from Oman to the UAE</h3>\r\nLTS has been contracted by a major UAE importer to operate and manage an export quarantine from Oman to the UAE.  LTS works under the supervision of the Sultanate of Oman and with guidance and direction from UAE, the importing country.  The quarantine operates according to strict LTS protocols and procedures.\r\n\r\nIn addition to quarantine services, LTS provides livestock selection, purchase, and transport services for the UAE importing company.\r\n<div id=\"KenyaExportQuarantine\">\r\n<h3>Export Quarantine from Kenya to GCC, ME, and Asia</h3>\r\nLTS is planning to begin livestock export quarantine operations and management activities in the near future from Kenya.\r\n\r\nOur services will include livestock selection, fattening and finishing, transport supervision, animal welfare, quarantine services, and quarantined shipping services to ensure that all animals arrive on spec &amp; <em>disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free</em>.\r\n<div id=\"KenyaMeatExport\">\r\n<h2><strong>Livestock Fattening, Finishing &amp; Meat Export </strong></h2>\r\n<h3><strong>Kenya Meat Export</strong></h3>\r\nWorking with a quality-oriented livestock exporter, Blue Mountain Meat and Livestock, LTS conducts production, supply, and processing chain management to ensure meat exported meets importer specifications and is hygienic, wholesome and disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free.\r\n\r\nWe offer grass-fed, grain-finished, and organic meat products.\r\n\r\nLTS also undertakes innovative fattening and finishing operations to ensure a reliable supply of consistent quality is provided to the importer.\r\n\r\nIn addition, LTS liaises with Blue Mountain to identify appropriate clients, negotiate contracts and pricing and facilitating Shari’ah Compliant financing.\r\n<h3> <strong>Kenya Meat and Livestock Exporters Association</strong></h3>\r\nAs the Specialized Livestock Service Provider for Kenya meat and livestock exporters, LTS is working to create quality products for exporters, moving them up the value chain, increasing profits and ensuring a smooth flow of meat and livestock to the destination port.\r\n<h3><strong>Slaughterhouse Operations &amp; Management — new slaughterhouse</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-234 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"basra-slaugherhouse-1\" width=\"298\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/management/\">Management</a>     <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/operational-partners/\">Operational Partners </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/publications/\">Publications </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>', 'About Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '48-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 09:59:47', '2016-10-09 06:59:47', '', 48, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/48-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(669, 1, '2016-10-09 10:01:15', '2016-10-09 07:01:15', '<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-28 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo-300x184.png\" alt=\"lts-logo\" width=\"448\" height=\"275\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Lives</strong><strong>tock Trade Services (LTS) is a UK-based private holding company that houses country-level livestock inspection, certification, quality assurance, and traceability services for the export trade in livestock and meat. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Additionally, LTS is the parent company for Agri-Secure International, a Kenyan based river side livestock fattening and finishing farm that specializes in the production or high-quality feed and livestock for discerning importing markets. </strong>\r\n<h1><strong>Adding Value </strong><strong>to Livestock and Meat</strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Livestock Trade Services was formed to work independent of, but with livestock and meat exporters, importers, governments, producers and processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-87 alignnone\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"437\" height=\"246\" /></a></li>\r\n 	<li>As an independent specialized service provider, LTS works only in livestock and meat. Our proprietary Animal Passport and Traceability system provide quality  assurance that our products are what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We strive to increase consumer and governmental trust and confidence in any product we handle.  This is why we guarantee our products to be what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS was formed in 2005 in London. Operations are in the Horn of Africa and the GCC with plans for extension into Middle East Countries.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We serve exporters, importers, and governments. In addition, we provide training and consulting services to live animal and meat export processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1><strong>Our Activities and Projects </strong></h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Operations &amp; Management </strong></h2>\r\n<div id=\"OmanAboutUs\">\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"421\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"421\" height=\"237\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n<h3> Export Quarantine from Oman to the UAE</h3>\r\nLTS has been contracted by a major UAE importer to operate and manage an export quarantine from Oman to the UAE.  LTS works under the supervision of the Sultanate of Oman and with guidance and direction from UAE, the importing country.  The quarantine operates according to strict LTS protocols and procedures.\r\n\r\nIn addition to quarantine services, LTS provides livestock selection, purchase, and transport services for the UAE importing company.\r\n<div id=\"KenyaExportQuarantine\">\r\n<h3>Export Quarantine from Kenya to GCC, ME, and Asia</h3>\r\nLTS is planning to begin livestock export quarantine operations and management activities in the near future from Kenya.\r\n\r\nOur services will include livestock selection, fattening and finishing, transport supervision, animal welfare, quarantine services, and quarantined shipping services to ensure that all animals arrive on spec &amp; <em>disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free</em>.\r\n<div id=\"KenyaMeatExport\">\r\n<h2><strong>Livestock Fattening, Finishing &amp; Meat Export </strong></h2>\r\n<h3><strong>Kenya Meat Export</strong></h3>\r\nWorking with a quality-oriented livestock exporter, Blue Mountain Meat and Livestock, LTS conducts production, supply, and processing chain management to ensure meat exported meets importer specifications and is hygienic, wholesome and disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free.\r\n\r\nWe offer grass-fed, grain-finished, and organic meat products.\r\n\r\nLTS also undertakes innovative fattening and finishing operations to ensure a reliable supply of consistent quality is provided to the importer.\r\n\r\nIn addition, LTS liaises with Blue Mountain to identify appropriate clients, negotiate contracts and pricing and facilitating Shari’ah Compliant financing.\r\n<h3> <strong>Kenya Meat and Livestock Exporters Association</strong></h3>\r\nAs the Specialized Livestock Service Provider for Kenya meat and livestock exporters, LTS is working to create quality products for exporters, moving them up the value chain, increasing profits and ensuring a smooth flow of meat and livestock to the destination port.\r\n<h3><strong>Slaughterhouse Operations &amp; Management — new slaughterhouse</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-234 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"basra-slaugherhouse-1\" width=\"298\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/management/\">Management</a>     <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/operational-partners/\">Operational Partners </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/publications/\">Publications </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>', 'About Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '48-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 10:01:15', '2016-10-09 07:01:15', '', 48, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/48-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(670, 1, '2016-10-09 10:04:33', '2016-10-09 07:04:33', '<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-28 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo-300x184.png\" alt=\"lts-logo\" width=\"448\" height=\"275\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Lives</strong><strong>tock Trade Services (LTS) is a UK-based private holding company that houses country-level livestock inspection, certification, quality assurance, and traceability services for the export trade in livestock and meat. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Additionally, LTS is the parent company for Agri-Secure International, a Kenyan based river side livestock fattening and finishing farm that specializes in the production or high-quality feed and livestock for discerning importing markets. </strong>\r\n<h1><strong>Adding Value </strong><strong>to Livestock and Meat</strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Livestock Trade Services was formed to work independent of, but with livestock and meat exporters, importers, governments, producers and processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-87 alignnone\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"437\" height=\"246\" /></a></li>\r\n 	<li>As an independent specialized service provider, LTS works only in livestock and meat. Our proprietary Animal Passport and Traceability system provide quality  assurance that our products are what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We strive to increase consumer and governmental trust and confidence in any product we handle.  This is why we guarantee our products to be what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS was formed in 2005 in London. Operations are in the Horn of Africa and the GCC with plans for extension into Middle East Countries.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We serve exporters, importers, and governments. In addition, we provide training and consulting services to live animal and meat export processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1><strong>Our Activities and Projects </strong></h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Operations &amp; Management </strong></h2>\r\n<div id=\"OmanAboutUs\">\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"421\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"421\" height=\"237\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n<h3> Export Quarantine from Oman to the UAE</h3>\r\nLTS has been contracted by a major UAE importer to operate and manage an export quarantine from Oman to the UAE.  LTS works under the supervision of the Sultanate of Oman and with guidance and direction from UAE, the importing country.  The quarantine operates according to strict LTS protocols and procedures.\r\n\r\n<div id=\"KenyaExportQuarantine\">\r\n\r\nIn addition to quarantine services, LTS provides livestock selection, purchase, and transport services for the UAE importing company.\r\n\r\n<h3>Export Quarantine from Kenya to GCC, ME, and Asia</h3>\r\nLTS is planning to begin livestock export quarantine operations and management activities in the near future from Kenya.\r\n\r\nOur services will include livestock selection, fattening and finishing, transport supervision, animal welfare, quarantine services, and quarantined shipping services to ensure that all animals arrive on spec &amp; <em>disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free</em>.\r\n<div id=\"KenyaMeatExport\">\r\n<h2><strong>Livestock Fattening, Finishing &amp; Meat Export </strong></h2>\r\n<h3><strong>Kenya Meat Export</strong></h3>\r\nWorking with a quality-oriented livestock exporter, Blue Mountain Meat and Livestock, LTS conducts production, supply, and processing chain management to ensure meat exported meets importer specifications and is hygienic, wholesome and disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free.\r\n\r\nWe offer grass-fed, grain-finished, and organic meat products.\r\n\r\nLTS also undertakes innovative fattening and finishing operations to ensure a reliable supply of consistent quality is provided to the importer.\r\n\r\nIn addition, LTS liaises with Blue Mountain to identify appropriate clients, negotiate contracts and pricing and facilitating Shari’ah Compliant financing.\r\n<h3> <strong>Kenya Meat and Livestock Exporters Association</strong></h3>\r\nAs the Specialized Livestock Service Provider for Kenya meat and livestock exporters, LTS is working to create quality products for exporters, moving them up the value chain, increasing profits and ensuring a smooth flow of meat and livestock to the destination port.\r\n<h3><strong>Slaughterhouse Operations &amp; Management — new slaughterhouse</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-234 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"basra-slaugherhouse-1\" width=\"298\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/management/\">Management</a>     <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/operational-partners/\">Operational Partners </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/publications/\">Publications </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>', 'About Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '48-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 10:04:33', '2016-10-09 07:04:33', '', 48, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/48-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(740, 1, '2016-11-06 16:43:01', '2016-11-06 13:43:01', '<h1><strong>Summary of LTS Services, Activities, and Projects </strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"#Q-Design\"><strong>Quarantine Design and Construction Services </strong></a></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations Services</strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong><em>End-to-End</em></strong><strong> Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations, Supervision, and Quality Assurance</strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Stress-free Transportation Services  </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement &amp; Management Services </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Livestock Feed Production, Fattening and Finishing Services </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/activities-projects/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Activities and Projects</a>  </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2 id=\"Q-Design\"><strong>Quarantine Design and Construction Services</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"415\" height=\"240\" /></a></h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Djibouti Regional Export Quarantine designed by LTS staff</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art quarantine design. Livestock export quarantines are highly technical and often expensive to construct due to their size. Many factors such as water flow, wind direction and speed, soil types and previous industrial or agricultural activities, resident and nearby wildlife and livestock populations, and proximity to the port of export all play important factors in determining the suitability and the exact design of a quarantine.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n 	<li>With each new design we introduce cost-effective changes and innovations and in some cases are able to reduce the cost of a livestock export quarantine by as much as 50% using innovative and environmentally friendly construction materials.</li>\r\n 	<li>We can deliver advanced <em>state-of-the-art</em> livestock quarantines to fit most purposes anywhere in the world.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.</li>\r\n 	<li>Rejections by importing countries are highly embarrassing for the exporter and the exporting country. Additionally, they are costly mistakes both in terms of revenue and animal welfare.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our approach is and will always remain science-based.  Thus our rates of rejection will always remain far below average, avoiding trade bans and ensuring the highest possible revenue for exporters.</li>\r\n 	<li>Quarantine bio-security is critical to keeping livestock healthy, wholesome and disease free.  This requires limited access, disease-free feed, and careful purposeful management to esure that disease is kept out of the quarantine facility.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Somali Berberi (Black-headed Persian Sheep) in the Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n<h2>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our LTS proprietary Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<h2><strong><em>Stress-Free</em></strong><strong> Transportation Services </strong></h2>\r\n<strong><em>Livestock quarantines extend from the point of entry to arrival at the destination port. </em></strong>\r\n\r\nTransportation is critical to the animal welfare, quality and disease-free status of livestock. Perfectly quarantined livestock placed on a contaminated ship will arrive stressed and diseased.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Livetock-ship-CattleCarrier1-inside.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-719 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Livetock-ship-CattleCarrier1-inside-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"livetock-ship-cattlecarrier1-inside\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" /></a>\r\n\r\nProvision of quality feed, water, ventilation, protection from the elements, and appropriate space for livestock to freely move are all absolutely necessary in livestock transport.\r\n\r\nLTS maintains its staff on all livestock ships carrying animals from any of the quarantines that we manage.\r\n\r\nGround transportation has similar requirements and needs.  LTS ensures that all livestock ground transporters serving LTS-managed quarantines sign on to and strictly follow LTS transportation protocols which include feed and water stops for long-distance trips and prevent overcrowding and stressing of livestock transported by trucks or railways.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li><strong> </strong>LTS offers shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n 	<li>specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h3>Innovative feed technologies</h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Most of the livestock that we serve are young animals that were born and have spent their life on pristine organic pastures where livestock are shepherded by renown Masai, Samburu, Somali, and Orma pastoralists who carefully guide their livestock to the best grasses.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>To ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed often produced on our own farms.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally we offer services to fatten and finish livestock at other locations such as holding grounds, feedlots, and quarantines</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1 id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\"></h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-Nairobi-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-251 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-Nairobi-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"nema-slaughterhouse-nairobi-2\" width=\"221\" height=\"124\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-well-flayed-Goats.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-170\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-well-flayed-Goats-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"nema-slaughterhouse-well-flayed-goats\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight generally in service to higher-end exporters who are proud to ship quality products to their customers.</li>\r\n 	<li>We also provide full slaughterhouse management and operations services for meat processors wishing to improve their quality and provide tender, appealing meat to the marketplace.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>Livestock Feed Production &amp; Livestock Fattening and Finishing Services</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-171 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"coastal-farm-open-space-goats-dsc_0577\" width=\"431\" height=\"243\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOur Coastal Riverside Farm in Kenya provides a perfect environment for livestock feed production under irrigation and a wholesome place for livestock fattening and finishing livestock for domestic or overseas market.\r\n\r\nLivestock are kept stress-free in a natural environment and are finished on the highest quality feed available, assuring their antibiotic-free, hormone-free, and disease free status.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-Alfalfa-1.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-718 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-Alfalfa-1-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"center-pivot-irrigation-alfalfa\" width=\"439\" height=\"243\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLTS can grow a variety of high quality livestock feed for domesitc use or export.  Our feed can be certified disease-free so that it can be used in biosecure locations such as livestock quarantines and on ships.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-06 16:43:01', '2016-11-06 13:43:01', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(732, 1, '2016-11-06 16:26:53', '2016-11-06 13:26:53', '<h1><strong>Summary of LTS Services, Activities, and Projects </strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Quarantine Design and Construction Services </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations Services</strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong><em>End-to-End</em></strong><strong> Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations, Supervision, and Quality Assurance</strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Stress-free Transportation Services  </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement &amp; Management Services </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Livestock Feed Production, Fattening and Finishing Services </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/activities-projects/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Activities and Projects</a>  </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design and Construction Services</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"415\" height=\"240\" /></a></h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Djibouti Regional Export Quarantine designed by LTS staff</p>\r\n<p id=\"Quarantine-Design-and-Construction-Services\">Jump to Quarantine Design</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art quarantine design. Livestock export quarantines are highly technical and often expensive to construct due to their size. Many factors such as water flow, wind direction and speed, soil types and previous industrial or agricultural activities, resident and nearby wildlife and livestock populations, and proximity to the port of export all play important factors in determining the suitability and the exact design of a quarantine.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n 	<li>With each new design we introduce cost-effective changes and innovations and in some cases are able to reduce the cost of a livestock export quarantine by as much as 50% using innovative and environmentally friendly construction materials.</li>\r\n 	<li>We can deliver advanced <em>state-of-the-art</em> livestock quarantines to fit most purposes anywhere in the world.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.</li>\r\n 	<li>Rejections by importing countries are highly embarrassing for the exporter and the exporting country. Additionally, they are costly mistakes both in terms of revenue and animal welfare.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our approach is and will always remain science-based.  Thus our rates of rejection will always remain far below average, avoiding trade bans and ensuring the highest possible revenue for exporters.</li>\r\n 	<li>Quarantine bio-security is critical to keeping livestock healthy, wholesome and disease free.  This requires limited access, disease-free feed, and careful purposeful management to esure that disease is kept out of the quarantine facility.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Somali Berberi (Black-headed Persian Sheep) in the Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n<h2>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our LTS proprietary Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<h2><strong><em>Stress-Free</em></strong><strong> Transportation Services </strong></h2>\r\n<strong><em>Livestock quarantines extend from the point of entry to arrival at the destination port. </em></strong>\r\n\r\nTransportation is critical to the animal welfare, quality and disease-free status of livestock. Perfectly quarantined livestock placed on a contaminated ship will arrive stressed and diseased.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Livetock-ship-CattleCarrier1-inside.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-719 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Livetock-ship-CattleCarrier1-inside-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"livetock-ship-cattlecarrier1-inside\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" /></a>\r\n\r\nProvision of quality feed, water, ventilation, protection from the elements, and appropriate space for livestock to freely move are all absolutely necessary in livestock transport.\r\n\r\nLTS maintains its staff on all livestock ships carrying animals from any of the quarantines that we manage.\r\n\r\nGround transportation has similar requirements and needs.  LTS ensures that all livestock ground transporters serving LTS-managed quarantines sign on to and strictly follow LTS transportation protocols which include feed and water stops for long-distance trips and prevent overcrowding and stressing of livestock transported by trucks or railways.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li><strong> </strong>LTS offers shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n 	<li>specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h3>Innovative feed technologies</h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Most of the livestock that we serve are young animals that were born and have spent their life on pristine organic pastures where livestock are shepherded by renown Masai, Samburu, Somali, and Orma pastoralists who carefully guide their livestock to the best grasses.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>To ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed often produced on our own farms.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally we offer services to fatten and finish livestock at other locations such as holding grounds, feedlots, and quarantines</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1 id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\"></h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-Nairobi-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-251 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-Nairobi-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"nema-slaughterhouse-nairobi-2\" width=\"221\" height=\"124\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-well-flayed-Goats.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-170\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-well-flayed-Goats-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"nema-slaughterhouse-well-flayed-goats\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight generally in service to higher-end exporters who are proud to ship quality products to their customers.</li>\r\n 	<li>We also provide full slaughterhouse management and operations services for meat processors wishing to improve their quality and provide tender, appealing meat to the marketplace.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>Livestock Feed Production &amp; Livestock Fattening and Finishing Services</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-171 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"coastal-farm-open-space-goats-dsc_0577\" width=\"431\" height=\"243\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOur Coastal Riverside Farm in Kenya provides a perfect environment for livestock feed production under irrigation and a wholesome place for livestock fattening and finishing livestock for domestic or overseas market.\r\n\r\nLivestock are kept stress-free in a natural environment and are finished on the highest quality feed available, assuring their antibiotic-free, hormone-free, and disease free status.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-Alfalfa-1.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-718 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-Alfalfa-1-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"center-pivot-irrigation-alfalfa\" width=\"439\" height=\"243\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLTS can grow a variety of high quality livestock feed for domesitc use or export.  Our feed can be certified disease-free so that it can be used in biosecure locations such as livestock quarantines and on ships.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-06 16:26:53', '2016-11-06 13:26:53', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(671, 1, '2016-10-09 10:12:36', '2016-10-09 07:12:36', '<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-28 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo-300x184.png\" alt=\"lts-logo\" width=\"448\" height=\"275\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Lives</strong><strong>tock Trade Services (LTS) is a UK-based private holding company that houses country-level livestock inspection, certification, quality assurance, and traceability services for the export trade in livestock and meat. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Additionally, LTS is the parent company for Agri-Secure International, a Kenyan based river side livestock fattening and finishing farm that specializes in the production or high-quality feed and livestock for discerning importing markets. </strong>\r\n<h1><strong>Adding Value </strong><strong>to Livestock and Meat</strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Livestock Trade Services was formed to work independent of, but with livestock and meat exporters, importers, governments, producers and processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-87 alignnone\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"437\" height=\"246\" /></a></li>\r\n 	<li>As an independent specialized service provider, LTS works only in livestock and meat. Our proprietary Animal Passport and Traceability system provide quality  assurance that our products are what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We strive to increase consumer and governmental trust and confidence in any product we handle.  This is why we guarantee our products to be what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS was formed in 2005 in London. Operations are in the Horn of Africa and the GCC with plans for extension into Middle East Countries.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We serve exporters, importers, and governments. In addition, we provide training and consulting services to live animal and meat export processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1><strong>Our Activities and Projects </strong></h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Operations &amp; Management </strong></h2>\r\n<div id=\"OmanAboutUs\">\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"421\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"421\" height=\"237\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n<h3> Export Quarantine from Oman to the UAE</h3>\r\nLTS has been contracted by a major UAE importer to operate and manage an export quarantine from Oman to the UAE.  LTS works under the supervision of the Sultanate of Oman and with guidance and direction from UAE, the importing country.  The quarantine operates according to strict LTS protocols and procedures.\r\n<div id=\"KenyaExportQuarantine\">\r\n\r\nIn addition to quarantine services, LTS provides livestock selection, purchase, and transport services for the UAE importing company.\r\n<h3>Export Quarantine from Kenya to GCC, ME, and Asia</h3>\r\nLTS is planning to begin livestock export quarantine operations and management activities in the near future from Kenya.\r\n\r\nOur services will include livestock selection, fattening and finishing, transport supervision, animal welfare, quarantine services, and quarantined shipping services to ensure that all animals arrive on spec &amp; <em>disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free</em>.\r\n<div id=\"KenyaMeatExport\">\r\n<h2><strong>Livestock Fattening, Finishing &amp; Meat Export </strong></h2>\r\n<h3><strong>Kenya Meat Export</strong></h3>\r\nWorking with a quality-oriented livestock exporter, Blue Mountain Meat and Livestock, LTS conducts production, supply, and processing chain management to ensure meat exported meets importer specifications and is hygienic, wholesome and disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free.\r\n\r\nWe offer grass-fed, grain-finished, and organic meat products.\r\n\r\nLTS also undertakes innovative fattening and finishing operations to ensure a reliable supply of consistent quality is provided to the importer.\r\n\r\nIn addition, LTS liaises with Blue Mountain to identify appropriate clients, negotiate contracts and pricing and facilitating Shari’ah Compliant financing.\r\n<h3> <strong>Kenya Meat and Livestock Exporters Association</strong></h3>\r\nAs the Specialized Livestock Service Provider for Kenya meat and livestock exporters, LTS is working to create quality products for exporters, moving them up the value chain, increasing profits and ensuring a smooth flow of meat and livestock to the destination port. \r\n\r\n<div id=\"KenyaSlaughterhouseManagement”>\r\n\r\n<h3><strong>Slaughterhouse Operations &amp; Management — new slaughterhouse</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-234 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"basra-slaugherhouse-1\" width=\"298\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLTS is in negotiations to manage a newly-built international standard slaughterhouse for the export of quality, well-flayed and expertly chilled meat from Kenya.  LTS management will ensure that the meat is tender, hygienic and wholesome for discerning global customers.  Additionally, we will also ensure that the meat is anitibiotic- and hormone-free.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/management/\">Management</a>     <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/operational-partners/\">Operational Partners </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/publications/\">Publications </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>', 'About Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '48-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 10:12:36', '2016-10-09 07:12:36', '', 48, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/48-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(672, 1, '2016-10-09 10:14:08', '2016-10-09 07:14:08', 'Livestock investment opportunities are exceptional.  They offer many a high degree of liquidity (livestock assets), rapid cycling, which means more rapid returns to the investor, and, using emerging technologies, modern veterinary medicine an integration with IT (information technology) carry a lower risk than many alternative investments.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_441\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"359\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Revenues-Costs-Profits.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-441\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Revenues-Costs-Profits-300x194.png\" alt=\"Revenue, Expenses &amp; profit growth years 1-3. Quarantine Operatoins and Management and livestock supply activities.\" width=\"359\" height=\"232\" /></a> Revenue, Expenses &amp; profit growth years 1-3. Quarantine Operations and Management and livestock supply activities.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>‎<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">Long &amp; Short-term Opportunities</a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid exit possible --- 2 years or less</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Long-term equity participation equally possible</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWe are highly ethical in our work and are fully open and transparent, providing our investors with checks and balances that secure their interests, including real-time access to Internet-based accounts and financial records.\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Food Security Investment Opportunities </strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">The livestock export sector from Africa, S. Asia, and the Middle East has been virtually unchanged for hundreds of years providing superb opportunities for update and change which can dramatically increase profits and reliability.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_304\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"401\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-Pasture.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-304\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-Pasture-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Goats on the virgin organic pastures of the Horn of Africa. \" width=\"401\" height=\"301\" /></a> Goats on the virgin organic pastures of the Horn of Africa.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">The meat export sector from these regions hasn\'t changed for nearly 100 years making this sector ripe for feeding, management animal welfare, and processing changes that can produce much better meat that is more desirable and more profitable.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Why Livestock? <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dirie-Cattle-Athi-River-DSC008981-3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-245\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dirie-Cattle-Athi-River-DSC008981-3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"dirie-cattle-athi-river-dsc008981\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Demand for Livestock and Meat in the GCC &amp; ME is growing at unprecedented rates and prices are increasing yearly</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">How healthy are they when they reach?\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">With good management and modern health care &amp; disease prevention, they maintain good health and deaths are very rare, generally less than 1 or 2%</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Livestock is profitable investment</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid turnover, multiple cycles per month means profits build fast</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid start-up means profits quickly roll in (rather than taking months or years as is typical in other investments)</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Livestock are <em>real</em> assets you can see, touch, and feel (unlike stock market paper)</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Livestock are highly liquid livestock assets can quickly be turned into cash</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Our Investment Opportunities</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Range in size from several hundred thousand dollars to several million dollars</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>GCC Region</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#OmanAboutUs\" target=\"_blank\">Oman</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_443\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Buraimi-Quarantine-Goats-Feeding-Paint-Reduced.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-443\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Buraimi-Quarantine-Goats-Feeding-Paint-Reduced-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Goats feeding at the Buraimi, Oman Quarantine.\" width=\"300\" height=\"533\" /></a> Goats feeding at the Buraimi, Oman Quarantine.[/caption]\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Horn of Africa Region</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaMeatExport\" target=\"_blank\">Organic, grass-fed, and grain-fed meat from Kenya</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_166\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"380\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tarquin-Sheep-Mara-Mountain.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-166\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tarquin-Sheep-Mara-Mountain-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"tarquin-sheep-mara-mountain\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" /></a> Kenyan sheep on virgin organic pastures. Most of our livestock are purchased from pastoralists, permitting us to support livelihoods in marginalized areas.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaExportQuarantine\" target=\"_blank\">Livestock Export from Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaExportQuarantine\" target=\"_blank\">Quarantine Operations and Management in Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaSlaughterhouseManagement\" target=\"_blank\">New slaughterhouse management in Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">100,000-acre riverside farm in Kenya</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"392\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"392\" height=\"221\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>', 'Investor Relations', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '130-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 10:14:08', '2016-10-09 07:14:08', '', 130, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/130-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(673, 1, '2016-10-09 10:17:33', '2016-10-09 07:17:33', '<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-28 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo-300x184.png\" alt=\"lts-logo\" width=\"448\" height=\"275\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Lives</strong><strong>tock Trade Services (LTS) is a UK-based private holding company that houses country-level livestock inspection, certification, quality assurance, and traceability services for the export trade in livestock and meat. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Additionally, LTS is the parent company for Agri-Secure International, a Kenyan based river side livestock fattening and finishing farm that specializes in the production or high-quality feed and livestock for discerning importing markets. </strong>\r\n<h1><strong>Adding Value </strong><strong>to Livestock and Meat</strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Livestock Trade Services was formed to work independent of, but with livestock and meat exporters, importers, governments, producers and processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-87 alignnone\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"437\" height=\"246\" /></a></li>\r\n 	<li>As an independent specialized service provider, LTS works only in livestock and meat. Our proprietary Animal Passport and Traceability system provide quality  assurance that our products are what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We strive to increase consumer and governmental trust and confidence in any product we handle.  This is why we guarantee our products to be what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS was formed in 2005 in London. Operations are in the Horn of Africa and the GCC with plans for extension into Middle East Countries.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We serve exporters, importers, and governments. In addition, we provide training and consulting services to live animal and meat export processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1><strong>Our Activities and Projects </strong></h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Operations &amp; Management </strong></h2>\r\n<div id=\"OmanAboutUs\">\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"421\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"421\" height=\"237\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n<h3> Export Quarantine from Oman to the UAE</h3>\r\nLTS has been contracted by a major UAE importer to operate and manage an export quarantine from Oman to the UAE.  LTS works under the supervision of the Sultanate of Oman and with guidance and direction from UAE, the importing country.  The quarantine operates according to strict LTS protocols and procedures.\r\n<div id=\"KenyaExportQuarantine\">\r\n\r\nIn addition to quarantine services, LTS provides livestock selection, purchase, and transport services for the UAE importing company.\r\n<h3>Export Quarantine from Kenya to GCC, ME, and Asia</h3>\r\nLTS is planning to begin livestock export quarantine operations and management activities in the near future from Kenya.\r\n\r\nOur services will include livestock selection, fattening and finishing, transport supervision, animal welfare, quarantine services, and quarantined shipping services to ensure that all animals arrive on spec &amp; <em>disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free</em>.\r\n<div id=\"KenyaMeatExport\">\r\n<h2><strong>Livestock Fattening, Finishing &amp; Meat Export </strong></h2>\r\n<h3><strong>Kenya Meat Export</strong></h3>\r\nWorking with a quality-oriented livestock exporter, Blue Mountain Meat and Livestock, LTS conducts production, supply, and processing chain management to ensure meat exported meets importer specifications and is hygienic, wholesome and disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free.\r\n\r\nWe offer grass-fed, grain-finished, and organic meat products.\r\n\r\nLTS also undertakes innovative fattening and finishing operations to ensure a reliable supply of consistent quality is provided to the importer.\r\n\r\nIn addition, LTS liaises with Blue Mountain to identify appropriate clients, negotiate contracts and pricing and facilitating Shari’ah Compliant financing.\r\n<h3> <strong>Kenya Meat and Livestock Exporters Association</strong></h3>\r\nAs the Specialized Livestock Service Provider for Kenya meat and livestock exporters, LTS is working to create quality products for exporters, moving them up the value chain, increasing profits and ensuring a smooth flow of meat and livestock to the destination port.\r\n\r\n<div id=\"KenyaSlaughterhouseManagement”\">\r\n\r\n<h3><strong>Slaughterhouse Operations &amp; Management — new slaughterhouse</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-234 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"basra-slaugherhouse-1\" width=\"298\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLTS is in negotiations to manage a newly-built international standard slaughterhouse for the export of quality, well-flayed and expertly chilled meat from Kenya.  LTS management will ensure that the meat is tender, hygienic and wholesome for discerning global customers.  Additionally, we will also ensure that the meat is anitibiotic- and hormone-free.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/management/\">Management</a>     <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/operational-partners/\">Operational Partners </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/publications/\">Publications </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>', 'About Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '48-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 10:17:33', '2016-10-09 07:17:33', '', 48, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/48-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(674, 1, '2016-10-09 10:17:58', '2016-10-09 07:17:58', '<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-28 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo-300x184.png\" alt=\"lts-logo\" width=\"448\" height=\"275\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Lives</strong><strong>tock Trade Services (LTS) is a UK-based private holding company that houses country-level livestock inspection, certification, quality assurance, and traceability services for the export trade in livestock and meat. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Additionally, LTS is the parent company for Agri-Secure International, a Kenyan based river side livestock fattening and finishing farm that specializes in the production or high-quality feed and livestock for discerning importing markets. </strong>\r\n<h1><strong>Adding Value </strong><strong>to Livestock and Meat</strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Livestock Trade Services was formed to work independent of, but with livestock and meat exporters, importers, governments, producers and processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-87 alignnone\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"437\" height=\"246\" /></a></li>\r\n 	<li>As an independent specialized service provider, LTS works only in livestock and meat. Our proprietary Animal Passport and Traceability system provide quality  assurance that our products are what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We strive to increase consumer and governmental trust and confidence in any product we handle.  This is why we guarantee our products to be what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS was formed in 2005 in London. Operations are in the Horn of Africa and the GCC with plans for extension into Middle East Countries.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We serve exporters, importers, and governments. In addition, we provide training and consulting services to live animal and meat export processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1><strong>Our Activities and Projects </strong></h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Operations &amp; Management </strong></h2>\r\n<div id=\"OmanAboutUs\">\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"421\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"421\" height=\"237\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n<h3> Export Quarantine from Oman to the UAE</h3>\r\nLTS has been contracted by a major UAE importer to operate and manage an export quarantine from Oman to the UAE.  LTS works under the supervision of the Sultanate of Oman and with guidance and direction from UAE, the importing country.  The quarantine operates according to strict LTS protocols and procedures.\r\n<div id=\"KenyaExportQuarantine\">\r\n\r\nIn addition to quarantine services, LTS provides livestock selection, purchase, and transport services for the UAE importing company.\r\n<h3>Export Quarantine from Kenya to GCC, ME, and Asia</h3>\r\nLTS is planning to begin livestock export quarantine operations and management activities in the near future from Kenya.\r\n\r\nOur services will include livestock selection, fattening and finishing, transport supervision, animal welfare, quarantine services, and quarantined shipping services to ensure that all animals arrive on spec &amp; <em>disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free</em>.\r\n<div id=\"KenyaMeatExport\">\r\n<h2><strong>Livestock Fattening, Finishing &amp; Meat Export </strong></h2>\r\n<h3><strong>Kenya Meat Export</strong></h3>\r\nWorking with a quality-oriented livestock exporter, Blue Mountain Meat and Livestock, LTS conducts production, supply, and processing chain management to ensure meat exported meets importer specifications and is hygienic, wholesome and disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free.\r\n\r\nWe offer grass-fed, grain-finished, and organic meat products.\r\n\r\nLTS also undertakes innovative fattening and finishing operations to ensure a reliable supply of consistent quality is provided to the importer.\r\n\r\nIn addition, LTS liaises with Blue Mountain to identify appropriate clients, negotiate contracts and pricing and facilitating Shari’ah Compliant financing.\r\n<h3> <strong>Kenya Meat and Livestock Exporters Association</strong></h3>\r\nAs the Specialized Livestock Service Provider for Kenya meat and livestock exporters, LTS is working to create quality products for exporters, moving them up the value chain, increasing profits and ensuring a smooth flow of meat and livestock to the destination port.\r\n\r\n<div id=\"KenyaSlaughterhouseManagement\">\r\n\r\n<h3><strong>Slaughterhouse Operations &amp; Management — new slaughterhouse</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-234 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"basra-slaugherhouse-1\" width=\"298\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLTS is in negotiations to manage a newly-built international standard slaughterhouse for the export of quality, well-flayed and expertly chilled meat from Kenya.  LTS management will ensure that the meat is tender, hygienic and wholesome for discerning global customers.  Additionally, we will also ensure that the meat is anitibiotic- and hormone-free.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/management/\">Management</a>     <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/operational-partners/\">Operational Partners </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/publications/\">Publications </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>', 'About Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '48-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 10:17:58', '2016-10-09 07:17:58', '', 48, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/48-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(678, 1, '2016-10-09 10:39:43', '2016-10-09 07:39:43', '<h1> Livestock &amp; Meat Global Trade Services</h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.ding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.[/caption]</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li>Shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"480\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art design.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h2>Innovative feed technologies</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<div id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\">\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_94\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-94\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a> The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.[/caption]\r\n\r\nOur 100,000-acre farm along the north coast of Kenya is well placed for the development of livestock fattening and finishing operations since it has a large river meandering through which provides abundant water for irrigation purposes.\r\n\r\nIn keeping with our core values, we\'ve formed a solid profit-share relationship with the local community ensuring that we will work together for our mutual interest for generations to come.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"422\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"422\" height=\"238\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\nPlans at the Coastal Riverside Farm call for an integrated development of irrigated livestock feed production, cropping, livestock fattening and finishing , drought response, and a state-of-the-art livestock export quarantine, to be followed by an EU-standard modern slaughterhouse.\r\n\r\nTaking advantage of the manure from livestock fattening, finishing and quarantine operations as well as solar radiation, we will develop our abundant renewable energy resources.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally, we fatten and finish at other locations such as holding grounds and quarantines.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement  &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight to full slaughterhouse management and operations.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 10:39:43', '2016-10-09 07:39:43', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(675, 1, '2016-10-09 10:32:31', '2016-10-09 07:32:31', '<h1> Livestock &amp; Meat Global Trade Services</h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.ding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.[/caption]</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li>Shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"480\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art design.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h2>Innovative feed technologies</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm”\r\n 	<li>Coastal, Riverside Farm</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_94\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-94\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a> The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.[/caption]\r\n\r\nOur 100,000-acre farm along the north coast of Kenya is well placed for the development of livestock fattening and finishing operations since it has a large river meandering through which provides abundant water for irrigation purposes.\r\n\r\nIn keeping with our core values, we\'ve formed a solid profit-share relationship with the local community ensuring that we will work together for our mutual interest for generations to come.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"422\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"422\" height=\"238\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\nPlans at the Coastal Riverside Farm call for an integrated development of irrigated livestock feed production, cropping, livestock fattening and finishing , drought response, and a state-of-the-art livestock export quarantine, to be followed by an EU-standard modern slaughterhouse.\r\n\r\nTaking advantage of the manure from livestock fattening, finishing and quarantine operations as well as solar radiation, we will develop our abundant renewable energy resources.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally, we fatten and finish at other locations such as holding grounds and quarantines.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement  &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight to full slaughterhouse management and operations.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 10:32:31', '2016-10-09 07:32:31', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(676, 1, '2016-10-09 10:33:46', '2016-10-09 07:33:46', 'Livestock investment opportunities are exceptional.  They offer many a high degree of liquidity (livestock assets), rapid cycling, which means more rapid returns to the investor, and, using emerging technologies, modern veterinary medicine an integration with IT (information technology) carry a lower risk than many alternative investments.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_441\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"359\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Revenues-Costs-Profits.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-441\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Revenues-Costs-Profits-300x194.png\" alt=\"Revenue, Expenses &amp; profit growth years 1-3. Quarantine Operatoins and Management and livestock supply activities.\" width=\"359\" height=\"232\" /></a> Revenue, Expenses &amp; profit growth years 1-3. Quarantine Operations and Management and livestock supply activities.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>‎<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">Long &amp; Short-term Opportunities</a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid exit possible --- 2 years or less</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Long-term equity participation equally possible</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWe are highly ethical in our work and are fully open and transparent, providing our investors with checks and balances that secure their interests, including real-time access to Internet-based accounts and financial records.\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Food Security Investment Opportunities </strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">The livestock export sector from Africa, S. Asia, and the Middle East has been virtually unchanged for hundreds of years providing superb opportunities for update and change which can dramatically increase profits and reliability.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_304\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"401\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-Pasture.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-304\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-Pasture-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Goats on the virgin organic pastures of the Horn of Africa. \" width=\"401\" height=\"301\" /></a> Goats on the virgin organic pastures of the Horn of Africa.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">The meat export sector from these regions hasn\'t changed for nearly 100 years making this sector ripe for feeding, management animal welfare, and processing changes that can produce much better meat that is more desirable and more profitable.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Why Livestock? <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dirie-Cattle-Athi-River-DSC008981-3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-245\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dirie-Cattle-Athi-River-DSC008981-3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"dirie-cattle-athi-river-dsc008981\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Demand for Livestock and Meat in the GCC &amp; ME is growing at unprecedented rates and prices are increasing yearly</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">How healthy are they when they reach?\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">With good management and modern health care &amp; disease prevention, they maintain good health and deaths are very rare, generally less than 1 or 2%</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Livestock is profitable investment</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid turnover, multiple cycles per month means profits build fast</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid start-up means profits quickly roll in (rather than taking months or years as is typical in other investments)</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Livestock are <em>real</em> assets you can see, touch, and feel (unlike stock market paper)</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Livestock are highly liquid livestock assets can quickly be turned into cash</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Our Investment Opportunities</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Range in size from several hundred thousand dollars to several million dollars</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>GCC Region</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#OmanAboutUs\" target=\"_blank\">Oman</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_443\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Buraimi-Quarantine-Goats-Feeding-Paint-Reduced.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-443\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Buraimi-Quarantine-Goats-Feeding-Paint-Reduced-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Goats feeding at the Buraimi, Oman Quarantine.\" width=\"300\" height=\"533\" /></a> Goats feeding at the Buraimi, Oman Quarantine.[/caption]\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Horn of Africa Region</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaMeatExport\" target=\"_blank\">Organic, grass-fed, and grain-fed meat from Kenya</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_166\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"380\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tarquin-Sheep-Mara-Mountain.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-166\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tarquin-Sheep-Mara-Mountain-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"tarquin-sheep-mara-mountain\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" /></a> Kenyan sheep on virgin organic pastures. Most of our livestock are purchased from pastoralists, permitting us to support livelihoods in marginalized areas.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaExportQuarantine\" target=\"_blank\">Livestock Export from Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaExportQuarantine\" target=\"_blank\">Quarantine Operations and Management in Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaSlaughterhouseManagement\" target=\"_blank\">New slaughterhouse management in Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\" target=\"_blank\">100,000-acre riverside farm in Kenya</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"392\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"392\" height=\"221\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>', 'Investor Relations', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '130-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 10:33:46', '2016-10-09 07:33:46', '', 130, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/130-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(677, 1, '2016-10-09 10:37:05', '2016-10-09 07:37:05', 'Livestock investment opportunities are exceptional.  They offer many a high degree of liquidity (livestock assets), rapid cycling, which means more rapid returns to the investor, and, using emerging technologies, modern veterinary medicine an integration with IT (information technology) carry a lower risk than many alternative investments.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_441\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"359\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Revenues-Costs-Profits.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-441\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Revenues-Costs-Profits-300x194.png\" alt=\"Revenue, Expenses &amp; profit growth years 1-3. Quarantine Operatoins and Management and livestock supply activities.\" width=\"359\" height=\"232\" /></a> Revenue, Expenses &amp; profit growth years 1-3. Quarantine Operations and Management and livestock supply activities.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>‎<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">Long &amp; Short-term Opportunities</a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid exit possible --- 2 years or less</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Long-term equity participation equally possible</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWe are highly ethical in our work and are fully open and transparent, providing our investors with checks and balances that secure their interests, including real-time access to Internet-based accounts and financial records.\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Food Security Investment Opportunities </strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">The livestock export sector from Africa, S. Asia, and the Middle East has been virtually unchanged for hundreds of years providing superb opportunities for update and change which can dramatically increase profits and reliability.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_304\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"401\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-Pasture.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-304\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-Pasture-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Goats on the virgin organic pastures of the Horn of Africa. \" width=\"401\" height=\"301\" /></a> Goats on the virgin organic pastures of the Horn of Africa.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">The meat export sector from these regions hasn\'t changed for nearly 100 years making this sector ripe for feeding, management animal welfare, and processing changes that can produce much better meat that is more desirable and more profitable.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Why Livestock? <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dirie-Cattle-Athi-River-DSC008981-3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-245\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dirie-Cattle-Athi-River-DSC008981-3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"dirie-cattle-athi-river-dsc008981\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Demand for Livestock and Meat in the GCC &amp; ME is growing at unprecedented rates and prices are increasing yearly</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">How healthy are they when they reach?\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">With good management and modern health care &amp; disease prevention, they maintain good health and deaths are very rare, generally less than 1 or 2%</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Livestock is profitable investment</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid turnover, multiple cycles per month means profits build fast</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid start-up means profits quickly roll in (rather than taking months or years as is typical in other investments)</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Livestock are <em>real</em> assets you can see, touch, and feel (unlike stock market paper)</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Livestock are highly liquid livestock assets can quickly be turned into cash</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Our Investment Opportunities</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Range in size from several hundred thousand dollars to several million dollars</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>GCC Region</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#OmanAboutUs\" target=\"_blank\">Oman</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_443\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Buraimi-Quarantine-Goats-Feeding-Paint-Reduced.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-443\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Buraimi-Quarantine-Goats-Feeding-Paint-Reduced-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Goats feeding at the Buraimi, Oman Quarantine.\" width=\"300\" height=\"533\" /></a> Goats feeding at the Buraimi, Oman Quarantine.[/caption]\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Horn of Africa Region</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaMeatExport\" target=\"_blank\">Organic, grass-fed, and grain-fed meat from Kenya</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_166\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"380\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tarquin-Sheep-Mara-Mountain.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-166\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tarquin-Sheep-Mara-Mountain-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"tarquin-sheep-mara-mountain\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" /></a> Kenyan sheep on virgin organic pastures. Most of our livestock are purchased from pastoralists, permitting us to support livelihoods in marginalized areas.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaExportQuarantine\" target=\"_blank\">Livestock Export from Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaExportQuarantine\" target=\"_blank\">Quarantine Operations and Management in Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaSlaughterhouseManagement\" target=\"_blank\">New slaughterhouse management in Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/#KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\" target=\"_blank\">100,000-acre riverside farm in Kenya</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"392\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"392\" height=\"221\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>', 'Investor Relations', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '130-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 10:37:05', '2016-10-09 07:37:05', '', 130, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/130-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(681, 1, '2016-10-09 10:50:25', '2016-10-09 07:50:25', '<h1> Livestock &amp; Meat Global Trade Services</h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.ding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.[/caption]</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li>Shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"480\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art design.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h2>Innovative feed technologies</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\">\r\n<h2>Kenya Coastal Riverside Farm</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_94\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"366\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-94\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.\" width=\"366\" height=\"206\" /></a> The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.[/caption]\r\n\r\nOur 100,000-acre farm along the north coast of Kenya is well placed for the development of livestock fattening and finishing operations since it has a large river meandering through which provides abundant water for irrigation purposes.\r\n\r\nIn keeping with our core values, we\'ve formed a solid profit-share relationship with the local community ensuring that we will work together for our mutual interest for generations to come.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"422\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"422\" height=\"238\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\nPlans at the Coastal Riverside Farm call for an integrated development of irrigated livestock feed production, cropping, livestock fattening and finishing , drought response, and a state-of-the-art livestock export quarantine, to be followed by an EU-standard modern slaughterhouse.\r\n\r\nTaking advantage of the manure from livestock fattening, finishing and quarantine operations as well as solar radiation, we will develop our abundant renewable energy resources.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally, we fatten and finish at other locations such as holding grounds and quarantines.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement  &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight to full slaughterhouse management and operations.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 10:50:25', '2016-10-09 07:50:25', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(679, 1, '2016-10-09 10:43:18', '2016-10-09 07:43:18', '<h1> Livestock &amp; Meat Global Trade Services</h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.ding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.[/caption]</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li>Shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"480\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art design.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h2>Innovative feed technologies</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>Kenya Coastal Riverside Farm</h2>\r\n<div id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\">\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_94\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"366\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-94\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.\" width=\"366\" height=\"206\" /></a> The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.[/caption]\r\n\r\nOur 100,000-acre farm along the north coast of Kenya is well placed for the development of livestock fattening and finishing operations since it has a large river meandering through which provides abundant water for irrigation purposes.\r\n\r\nIn keeping with our core values, we\'ve formed a solid profit-share relationship with the local community ensuring that we will work together for our mutual interest for generations to come.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"422\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"422\" height=\"238\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\nPlans at the Coastal Riverside Farm call for an integrated development of irrigated livestock feed production, cropping, livestock fattening and finishing , drought response, and a state-of-the-art livestock export quarantine, to be followed by an EU-standard modern slaughterhouse.\r\n\r\nTaking advantage of the manure from livestock fattening, finishing and quarantine operations as well as solar radiation, we will develop our abundant renewable energy resources.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally, we fatten and finish at other locations such as holding grounds and quarantines.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement  &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight to full slaughterhouse management and operations.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 10:43:18', '2016-10-09 07:43:18', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(680, 1, '2016-10-09 10:44:59', '2016-10-09 07:44:59', '<h1> Livestock &amp; Meat Global Trade Services</h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.ding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.[/caption]</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li>Shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"480\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art design.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h2>Innovative feed technologies</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<div id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\">\r\n<h2>Kenya Coastal Riverside Farm</h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_94\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"366\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-94\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.\" width=\"366\" height=\"206\" /></a> The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.[/caption]\r\n\r\nOur 100,000-acre farm along the north coast of Kenya is well placed for the development of livestock fattening and finishing operations since it has a large river meandering through which provides abundant water for irrigation purposes.\r\n\r\nIn keeping with our core values, we\'ve formed a solid profit-share relationship with the local community ensuring that we will work together for our mutual interest for generations to come.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"422\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"422\" height=\"238\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\nPlans at the Coastal Riverside Farm call for an integrated development of irrigated livestock feed production, cropping, livestock fattening and finishing , drought response, and a state-of-the-art livestock export quarantine, to be followed by an EU-standard modern slaughterhouse.\r\n\r\nTaking advantage of the manure from livestock fattening, finishing and quarantine operations as well as solar radiation, we will develop our abundant renewable energy resources.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally, we fatten and finish at other locations such as holding grounds and quarantines.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement  &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight to full slaughterhouse management and operations.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 10:44:59', '2016-10-09 07:44:59', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(682, 1, '2016-10-09 10:52:12', '2016-10-09 07:52:12', '<h1> Livestock &amp; Meat Global Trade Services</h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.ding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.[/caption]</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li>Shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"480\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art design.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h2>Innovative feed technologies</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<h2>Kenya Coastal Riverside Farm</h2> \r\n<div id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\">\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_94\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"366\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-94\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.\" width=\"366\" height=\"206\" /></a> The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.[/caption]\r\n\r\nOur 100,000-acre farm along the north coast of Kenya is well placed for the development of livestock fattening and finishing operations since it has a large river meandering through which provides abundant water for irrigation purposes.\r\n\r\nIn keeping with our core values, we\'ve formed a solid profit-share relationship with the local community ensuring that we will work together for our mutual interest for generations to come.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"422\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"422\" height=\"238\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\nPlans at the Coastal Riverside Farm call for an integrated development of irrigated livestock feed production, cropping, livestock fattening and finishing , drought response, and a state-of-the-art livestock export quarantine, to be followed by an EU-standard modern slaughterhouse.\r\n\r\nTaking advantage of the manure from livestock fattening, finishing and quarantine operations as well as solar radiation, we will develop our abundant renewable energy resources.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally, we fatten and finish at other locations such as holding grounds and quarantines.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement  &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight to full slaughterhouse management and operations.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 10:52:12', '2016-10-09 07:52:12', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(683, 1, '2016-10-09 11:40:58', '2016-10-09 08:40:58', 'Livestock investment opportunities are exceptional.  They offer many a high degree of liquidity (livestock assets), rapid cycling, which means more rapid returns to the investor, and, using emerging technologies, modern veterinary medicine an integration with IT (information technology) carry a lower risk than many alternative investments.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_441\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"359\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Revenues-Costs-Profits.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-441\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Revenues-Costs-Profits-300x194.png\" alt=\"Revenue, Expenses &amp; profit growth years 1-3. Quarantine Operatoins and Management and livestock supply activities.\" width=\"359\" height=\"232\" /></a> Revenue, Expenses &amp; profit growth years 1-3. Quarantine Operations and Management and livestock supply activities.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>‎<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\">Long &amp; Short-term Opportunities</a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid exit possible --- 2 years or less</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Long-term equity participation equally possible</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWe are highly ethical in our work and are fully open and transparent, providing our investors with checks and balances that secure their interests, including real-time access to Internet-based accounts and financial records.\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Food Security Investment Opportunities </strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">The livestock export sector from Africa, S. Asia, and the Middle East has been virtually unchanged for hundreds of years providing superb opportunities for update and change which can dramatically increase profits and reliability.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_304\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"401\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-Pasture.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-304\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-Pasture-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Goats on the virgin organic pastures of the Horn of Africa. \" width=\"401\" height=\"301\" /></a> Goats on the virgin organic pastures of the Horn of Africa.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">The meat export sector from these regions hasn\'t changed for nearly 100 years making this sector ripe for feeding, management animal welfare, and processing changes that can produce much better meat that is more desirable and more profitable.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Why Livestock? <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dirie-Cattle-Athi-River-DSC008981-3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-245\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dirie-Cattle-Athi-River-DSC008981-3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"dirie-cattle-athi-river-dsc008981\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Demand for Livestock and Meat in the GCC &amp; ME is growing at unprecedented rates and prices are increasing yearly</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">How healthy are they when they reach?\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">With good management and modern health care &amp; disease prevention, they maintain good health and deaths are very rare, generally less than 1 or 2%</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Livestock is profitable investment</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid turnover, multiple cycles per month means profits build fast</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid start-up means profits quickly roll in (rather than taking months or years as is typical in other investments)</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Livestock are <em>real</em> assets you can see, touch, and feel (unlike stock market paper)</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Livestock are highly liquid livestock assets can quickly be turned into cash</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Our Investment Opportunities</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Range in size from several hundred thousand dollars to several million dollars</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>GCC Region</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#OmanAboutUs\" target=\"_blank\">Oman</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_443\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Buraimi-Quarantine-Goats-Feeding-Paint-Reduced.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-443\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Buraimi-Quarantine-Goats-Feeding-Paint-Reduced-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Goats feeding at the Buraimi, Oman Quarantine.\" width=\"300\" height=\"533\" /></a> Goats feeding at the Buraimi, Oman Quarantine.[/caption]\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Horn of Africa Region</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaMeatExport\" target=\"_blank\">Organic, grass-fed, and grain-fed meat from Kenya</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_166\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"380\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tarquin-Sheep-Mara-Mountain.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-166\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tarquin-Sheep-Mara-Mountain-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"tarquin-sheep-mara-mountain\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" /></a> Kenyan sheep on virgin organic pastures. Most of our livestock are purchased from pastoralists, permitting us to support livelihoods in marginalized areas.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaExportQuarantine\" target=\"_blank\">Livestock Export from Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaExportQuarantine\" target=\"_blank\">Quarantine Operations and Management in Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaSlaughterhouseManagement\" target=\"_blank\">New slaughterhouse management in Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/#KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\" target=\"_blank\">100,000-acre riverside farm in Kenya</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"392\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"392\" height=\"221\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>', 'Investor Relations', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '130-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 11:40:58', '2016-10-09 08:40:58', '', 130, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/130-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(684, 1, '2016-10-09 11:45:35', '2016-10-09 08:45:35', '<h1> Livestock &amp; Meat Global Trade Services</h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.ding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.[/caption]</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li>Shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"480\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art design.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h2>Innovative feed technologies</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2 id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\">Kenya Coastal Riverside Farm</h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_94\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"366\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-94\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.\" width=\"366\" height=\"206\" /></a> The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.[/caption]\r\n\r\nOur 100,000-acre farm along the north coast of Kenya is well placed for the development of livestock fattening and finishing operations since it has a large river meandering through which provides abundant water for irrigation purposes.\r\n\r\nIn keeping with our core values, we\'ve formed a solid profit-share relationship with the local community ensuring that we will work together for our mutual interest for generations to come.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"422\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"422\" height=\"238\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\nPlans at the Coastal Riverside Farm call for an integrated development of irrigated livestock feed production, cropping, livestock fattening and finishing , drought response, and a state-of-the-art livestock export quarantine, to be followed by an EU-standard modern slaughterhouse.\r\n\r\nTaking advantage of the manure from livestock fattening, finishing and quarantine operations as well as solar radiation, we will develop our abundant renewable energy resources.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally, we fatten and finish at other locations such as holding grounds and quarantines.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement  &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight to full slaughterhouse management and operations.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 11:45:35', '2016-10-09 08:45:35', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(685, 1, '2016-10-09 11:48:55', '2016-10-09 08:48:55', 'Livestock investment opportunities are exceptional.  They offer many a high degree of liquidity (livestock assets), rapid cycling, which means more rapid returns to the investor, and, using emerging technologies, modern veterinary medicine an integration with IT (information technology) carry a lower risk than many alternative investments.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_441\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"359\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Revenues-Costs-Profits.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-441\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Revenues-Costs-Profits-300x194.png\" alt=\"Revenue, Expenses &amp; profit growth years 1-3. Quarantine Operatoins and Management and livestock supply activities.\" width=\"359\" height=\"232\" /></a> Revenue, Expenses &amp; profit growth years 1-3. Quarantine Operations and Management and livestock supply activities.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>‎<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\">Long &amp; Short-term Opportunities</a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid exit possible --- 2 years or less</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Long-term equity participation equally possible</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWe are highly ethical in our work and are fully open and transparent, providing our investors with checks and balances that secure their interests, including real-time access to Internet-based accounts and financial records.\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Food Security Investment Opportunities </strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">The livestock export sector from Africa, S. Asia, and the Middle East has been virtually unchanged for hundreds of years providing superb opportunities for update and change which can dramatically increase profits and reliability.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_304\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"401\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-Pasture.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-304\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-Pasture-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Goats on the virgin organic pastures of the Horn of Africa. \" width=\"401\" height=\"301\" /></a> Goats on the virgin organic pastures of the Horn of Africa.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">The meat export sector from these regions hasn\'t changed for nearly 100 years making this sector ripe for feeding, management animal welfare, and processing changes that can produce much better meat that is more desirable and more profitable.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Why Livestock? <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dirie-Cattle-Athi-River-DSC008981-3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-245\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dirie-Cattle-Athi-River-DSC008981-3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"dirie-cattle-athi-river-dsc008981\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Demand for Livestock and Meat in the GCC &amp; ME is growing at unprecedented rates and prices are increasing yearly</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">How healthy are they when they reach?\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">With good management and modern health care &amp; disease prevention, they maintain good health and deaths are very rare, generally less than 1 or 2%</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Livestock is profitable investment</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid turnover, multiple cycles per month means profits build fast</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid start-up means profits quickly roll in (rather than taking months or years as is typical in other investments)</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Livestock are <em>real</em> assets you can see, touch, and feel (unlike stock market paper)</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Livestock are highly liquid livestock assets can quickly be turned into cash</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Our Investment Opportunities</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Range in size from several hundred thousand dollars to several million dollars</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>GCC Region</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#OmanAboutUs\" target=\"_blank\">Oman</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_443\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Buraimi-Quarantine-Goats-Feeding-Paint-Reduced.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-443\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Buraimi-Quarantine-Goats-Feeding-Paint-Reduced-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Goats feeding at the Buraimi, Oman Quarantine.\" width=\"300\" height=\"533\" /></a> Goats feeding at the Buraimi, Oman Quarantine.[/caption]\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Horn of Africa Region</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaMeatExport\" target=\"_blank\">Organic, grass-fed, and grain-fed meat from Kenya</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_166\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"380\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tarquin-Sheep-Mara-Mountain.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-166\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tarquin-Sheep-Mara-Mountain-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"tarquin-sheep-mara-mountain\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" /></a> Kenyan sheep on virgin organic pastures. Most of our livestock are purchased from pastoralists, permitting us to support livelihoods in marginalized areas.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaExportQuarantine\" target=\"_blank\">Livestock Export from Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaExportQuarantine\" target=\"_blank\">Quarantine Operations and Management in Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaSlaughterhouseManagement\" target=\"_blank\">New slaughterhouse management in Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/#KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\" target=\"_blank\">100000-acre riverside farm in Kenya</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"392\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"392\" height=\"221\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>', 'Investor Relations', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '130-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 11:48:55', '2016-10-09 08:48:55', '', 130, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/130-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(686, 1, '2016-10-09 11:49:47', '2016-10-09 08:49:47', 'Livestock investment opportunities are exceptional.  They offer many a high degree of liquidity (livestock assets), rapid cycling, which means more rapid returns to the investor, and, using emerging technologies, modern veterinary medicine an integration with IT (information technology) carry a lower risk than many alternative investments.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_441\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"359\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Revenues-Costs-Profits.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-441\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Revenues-Costs-Profits-300x194.png\" alt=\"Revenue, Expenses &amp; profit growth years 1-3. Quarantine Operatoins and Management and livestock supply activities.\" width=\"359\" height=\"232\" /></a> Revenue, Expenses &amp; profit growth years 1-3. Quarantine Operations and Management and livestock supply activities.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<strong>‎<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\">Long &amp; Short-term Opportunities</a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid exit possible --- 2 years or less</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Long-term equity participation equally possible</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWe are highly ethical in our work and are fully open and transparent, providing our investors with checks and balances that secure their interests, including real-time access to Internet-based accounts and financial records.\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Food Security Investment Opportunities </strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">The livestock export sector from Africa, S. Asia, and the Middle East has been virtually unchanged for hundreds of years providing superb opportunities for update and change which can dramatically increase profits and reliability.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_304\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"401\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-Pasture.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-304\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-Pasture-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Goats on the virgin organic pastures of the Horn of Africa. \" width=\"401\" height=\"301\" /></a> Goats on the virgin organic pastures of the Horn of Africa.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">The meat export sector from these regions hasn\'t changed for nearly 100 years making this sector ripe for feeding, management animal welfare, and processing changes that can produce much better meat that is more desirable and more profitable.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Why Livestock? <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dirie-Cattle-Athi-River-DSC008981-3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-245\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dirie-Cattle-Athi-River-DSC008981-3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"dirie-cattle-athi-river-dsc008981\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Demand for Livestock and Meat in the GCC &amp; ME is growing at unprecedented rates and prices are increasing yearly</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">How healthy are they when they reach?\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">With good management and modern health care &amp; disease prevention, they maintain good health and deaths are very rare, generally less than 1 or 2%</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Livestock is profitable investment</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid turnover, multiple cycles per month means profits build fast</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Rapid start-up means profits quickly roll in (rather than taking months or years as is typical in other investments)</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Livestock are <em>real</em> assets you can see, touch, and feel (unlike stock market paper)</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Livestock are highly liquid livestock assets can quickly be turned into cash</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Our Investment Opportunities</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Range in size from several hundred thousand dollars to several million dollars</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>GCC Region</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#OmanAboutUs\" target=\"_blank\">Oman</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_443\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Buraimi-Quarantine-Goats-Feeding-Paint-Reduced.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-443\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Buraimi-Quarantine-Goats-Feeding-Paint-Reduced-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Goats feeding at the Buraimi, Oman Quarantine.\" width=\"300\" height=\"533\" /></a> Goats feeding at the Buraimi, Oman Quarantine.[/caption]\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><strong>Horn of Africa Region</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaMeatExport\" target=\"_blank\">Organic, grass-fed, and grain-fed meat from Kenya</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_166\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"380\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tarquin-Sheep-Mara-Mountain.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-166\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Tarquin-Sheep-Mara-Mountain-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"tarquin-sheep-mara-mountain\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" /></a> Kenyan sheep on virgin organic pastures. Most of our livestock are purchased from pastoralists, permitting us to support livelihoods in marginalized areas.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaExportQuarantine\" target=\"_blank\">Livestock Export from Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaExportQuarantine\" target=\"_blank\">Quarantine Operations and Management in Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/#KenyaSlaughterhouseManagement\" target=\"_blank\">New slaughterhouse management in Kenya</a></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/#KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\" target=\"_blank\">100,000-acre riverside farm in Kenya</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"392\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"392\" height=\"221\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>', 'Investor Relations', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '130-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 11:49:47', '2016-10-09 08:49:47', '', 130, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/130-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(687, 1, '2016-10-09 11:57:28', '2016-10-09 08:57:28', '<h1>Summary of LTS Services</h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.ding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.[/caption]</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability System</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our LTS proprietary Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li>Shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"480\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art design.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h2>Innovative feed technologies</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h2 id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\">Kenya Coastal Riverside Farm</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_94\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"366\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-94\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.\" width=\"366\" height=\"206\" /></a> The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.[/caption]\r\n\r\nOur 100,000-acre farm along the north coast of Kenya is well placed for the development of livestock fattening and finishing operations since it has a large river meandering through which provides abundant water for irrigation purposes.\r\n\r\nIn keeping with our core values, we\'ve formed a solid profit-share relationship with the local community ensuring that we will work together for our mutual interest for generations to come.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"422\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"422\" height=\"238\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\nPlans at the Coastal Riverside Farm call for an integrated development of irrigated livestock feed production, cropping, livestock fattening and finishing , drought response, and a state-of-the-art livestock export quarantine, to be followed by an EU-standard modern slaughterhouse.\r\n<h3>Renewable Energy - Biogas &amp; Solar</h3>\r\nTaking advantage of the manure from livestock fattening, finishing and quarantine operations as well as intense tropical solar radiation, we will develop our abundant renewable energy resources.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally, we fatten and finish at other locations such as holding grounds and quarantines.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement  &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight to full slaughterhouse management and operations.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 11:57:28', '2016-10-09 08:57:28', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(688, 1, '2016-10-09 11:58:53', '2016-10-09 08:58:53', '<h1>Summary of LTS Services</h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.ding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.[/caption]</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our LTS proprietary Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li>Shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"480\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art design.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h2>Innovative feed technologies</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h2 id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\">Kenya Coastal Riverside Farm</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_94\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"366\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-94\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.\" width=\"366\" height=\"206\" /></a> The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.[/caption]\r\n\r\nOur 100,000-acre farm along the north coast of Kenya is well placed for the development of livestock fattening and finishing operations since it has a large river meandering through which provides abundant water for irrigation purposes.\r\n\r\nIn keeping with our core values, we\'ve formed a solid profit-share relationship with the local community ensuring that we will work together for our mutual interest for generations to come.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"422\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"422\" height=\"238\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\nPlans at the Coastal Riverside Farm call for an integrated development of irrigated livestock feed production, cropping, livestock fattening and finishing , drought response, and a state-of-the-art livestock export quarantine, to be followed by an EU-standard modern slaughterhouse.\r\n<h3>Renewable Energy - Biogas &amp; Solar</h3>\r\nTaking advantage of the manure from livestock fattening, finishing and quarantine operations as well as intense tropical solar radiation, we will develop our abundant renewable energy resources.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally, we fatten and finish at other locations such as holding grounds and quarantines.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement  &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight to full slaughterhouse management and operations.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 11:58:53', '2016-10-09 08:58:53', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(689, 1, '2016-10-09 11:59:40', '2016-10-09 08:59:40', '<h1>Summary of LTS Services</h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.ding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.[/caption]</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our LTS proprietary Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li>Shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"480\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art design.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h2>Innovative feed technologies</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1>Kenya Coastal Riverside Farm</h1>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_94\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"366\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-94\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.\" width=\"366\" height=\"206\" /></a> The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.[/caption]\r\n\r\nOur 100,000-acre farm along the north coast of Kenya is well placed for the development of livestock fattening and finishing operations since it has a large river meandering through which provides abundant water for irrigation purposes.\r\n\r\nIn keeping with our core values, we\'ve formed a solid profit-share relationship with the local community ensuring that we will work together for our mutual interest for generations to come.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"422\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"422\" height=\"238\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\nPlans at the Coastal Riverside Farm call for an integrated development of irrigated livestock feed production, cropping, livestock fattening and finishing , drought response, and a state-of-the-art livestock export quarantine, to be followed by an EU-standard modern slaughterhouse.\r\n<h3>Renewable Energy - Biogas &amp; Solar</h3>\r\nTaking advantage of the manure from livestock fattening, finishing and quarantine operations as well as intense tropical solar radiation, we will develop our abundant renewable energy resources.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally, we fatten and finish at other locations such as holding grounds and quarantines.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement  &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight to full slaughterhouse management and operations.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 11:59:40', '2016-10-09 08:59:40', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(690, 1, '2016-10-09 12:09:45', '2016-10-09 09:09:45', '<h1>Summary of LTS Services</h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.ding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.[/caption]</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our LTS proprietary Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li>Shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"480\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art design.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h2>Innovative feed technologies</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1 id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm”>Kenya Coastal Riverside Farm</h1>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_94\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"366\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-94\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.\" width=\"366\" height=\"206\" /></a> The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.[/caption]\r\n\r\nOur 100,000-acre farm along the north coast of Kenya is well placed for the development of livestock fattening and finishing operations since it has a large river meandering through which provides abundant water for irrigation purposes.\r\n\r\nIn keeping with our core values, we\'ve formed a solid profit-share relationship with the local community ensuring that we will work together for our mutual interest for generations to come.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"422\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"422\" height=\"238\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\nPlans at the Coastal Riverside Farm call for an integrated development of irrigated livestock feed production, cropping, livestock fattening and finishing , drought response, and a state-of-the-art livestock export quarantine, to be followed by an EU-standard modern slaughterhouse.\r\n<h3>Renewable Energy - Biogas &amp; Solar</h3>\r\nTaking advantage of the manure from livestock fattening, finishing and quarantine operations as well as intense tropical solar radiation, we will develop our abundant renewable energy resources.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally, we fatten and finish at other locations such as holding grounds and quarantines.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement  &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight to full slaughterhouse management and operations.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 12:09:45', '2016-10-09 09:09:45', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(691, 1, '2016-10-09 12:12:51', '2016-10-09 09:12:51', '<h1>Summary of LTS Services</h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.ding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.[/caption]</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our LTS proprietary Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li>Shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"480\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art design.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h2>Innovative feed technologies</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1 id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm”\">Kenya Coastal Riverside Farm</h1>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_94\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"366\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-94\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.\" width=\"366\" height=\"206\" /></a> The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.[/caption]\r\n\r\nOur 100,000-acre farm along the north coast of Kenya is well placed for the development of livestock fattening and finishing operations since it has a large river meandering through which provides abundant water for irrigation purposes.\r\n\r\nIn keeping with our core values, we\'ve formed a solid profit-share relationship with the local community ensuring that we will work together for our mutual interest for generations to come.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"422\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"422\" height=\"238\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\nPlans at the Coastal Riverside Farm call for an integrated development of irrigated livestock feed production, cropping, livestock fattening and finishing , drought response, and a state-of-the-art livestock export quarantine, to be followed by an EU-standard modern slaughterhouse.\r\n<h3>Renewable Energy - Biogas &amp; Solar</h3>\r\nTaking advantage of the manure from livestock fattening, finishing and quarantine operations as well as intense tropical solar radiation, we will develop our abundant renewable energy resources.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally, we fatten and finish at other locations such as holding grounds and quarantines.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement  &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight to full slaughterhouse management and operations.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 12:12:51', '2016-10-09 09:12:51', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(692, 1, '2016-10-09 12:15:54', '2016-10-09 09:15:54', '<h1>Summary of LTS Services</h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.ding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.[/caption]</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our LTS proprietary Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li>Shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"480\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art design.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></h1>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h2>Innovative feed technologies</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1 id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\">Kenya Coastal Riverside Farm</h1>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_94\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"366\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-94\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/River-Farm-Coast-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.\" width=\"366\" height=\"206\" /></a> The river that flows through our farm along the coast of Kenya.[/caption]\r\n\r\nOur 100,000-acre farm along the north coast of Kenya is well placed for the development of livestock fattening and finishing operations since it has a large river meandering through which provides abundant water for irrigation purposes.\r\n\r\nIn keeping with our core values, we\'ve formed a solid profit-share relationship with the local community ensuring that we will work together for our mutual interest for generations to come.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_93\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"422\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-93\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"422\" height=\"238\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\nPlans at the Coastal Riverside Farm call for an integrated development of irrigated livestock feed production, cropping, livestock fattening and finishing , drought response, and a state-of-the-art livestock export quarantine, to be followed by an EU-standard modern slaughterhouse.\r\n<h3>Renewable Energy - Biogas &amp; Solar</h3>\r\nTaking advantage of the manure from livestock fattening, finishing and quarantine operations as well as intense tropical solar radiation, we will develop our abundant renewable energy resources.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally, we fatten and finish at other locations such as holding grounds and quarantines.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement  &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight to full slaughterhouse management and operations.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 12:15:54', '2016-10-09 09:15:54', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(693, 1, '2016-10-09 20:08:29', '2016-10-09 17:08:29', '<h1> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Having worked in development for 25 years, I came to realize that can we can’t speak of food security and the need to link markets to the poor without making the sustainable actors of agribusinesses (large and small) <strong><em>the focus</em></strong> of our activities.  Value-addition of drought-stricken livestock can prevent catastrophic losses of pastoral livestock during droughts.</span></h1>\n<h2></h2>\n<h2>Helping pastoralists make money from their drought-stricken livestock</h2>\nNGOs and development partners can be, should be – and are critical players in establishing connections between the poor and agribusiness and, through innovative funding can actually show how value addition to products such as pastoral livestock can actually make money in global markets for these export businesses and the pastoralist livestock producers.\n\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC00546-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-694 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC00546-2-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"dsc00546-2\" width=\"338\" height=\"229\" /></a>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Quality feed and professional management can turn emaciated, drought-stricken livestock into market-ready animals in as little as 2-3 months</em></strong></p>\nHere in Kenya and the surrounding Horn of Africa, we have recurrent droughts during which pastoral herders lose 30 – 70 % of their livestock. And by and large, these pastoralists remain unconnected to the global market, so the mortalities continue despite all decades of development assistance, government and NGO programs.\n\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ethiopian-Cattle-Feedlot-IMG-20160330-WA0011-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-695 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ethiopian-Cattle-Feedlot-IMG-20160330-WA0011-2-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"ethiopian-cattle-feedlot-img-20160330-wa0011-2\" width=\"386\" height=\"274\" /></a>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"> <strong><em>Livestock, even drought-stricken ones, recover quickly with proper care and feed.</em></strong></p>\n\n<h2>Can NGOs &amp; Development Partners Jump-Start the Process?</h2>\nCan development partners and NGOs facilitate this linkage between poor pastoral livestock producers and sustainable export traders and agribusiness?\n\nI believe they can set the stage for the private sector to get involved.\n\nIf development partners and NGOs fund initial demonstration in partnership with the private sector to demonstrate the benefits of value addition of pastoral drought-stricken livestock, bringing them to market weight so they can be viable products, rather than the dead animal pictures we’ve seen all too often in the Press.\n<h2>Private-Sector Cash for Drought -Stricken Livestock</h2>\nThis would place cash in the hands of pastoralists during droughts—when they need it most and ensure a sustainable supply of livestock for exporters during periods of drought or even during extended dry spells.\n\nThis would be business. It would benefit all sides. And most importantly, it would be sustainable and begin linking pastoralists to global markets for the long-term.\n\nWhat\'s the evidence that this actually works?\n\nThe Feinstein International Center based at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at <em>Tufts University and others have evaluated this concept in Ethiopia.  The evidence to date is, that this approach  works producing between 6 - 41 times benefits over costs! Thus once the infrastructure is present these are win-win situations for all!  Here are some links to their reports, articles and policy briefs.</em>\n\nPolicy Brief:  Benefits and Costs of Supplemental Cattle feeding During Droughts   <a href=\"http://bit.ly/2edvbnh\" target=\"_blank\">http://bit.ly/2edvbnh</a>\n\nImpact Assessments of Livelihoods-based Drought Interventions in Moyale and Dire Woredas   <a href=\"http://bit.ly/2eIuqUa\" target=\"_blank\">http://bit.ly/2eIuqUa</a>\n\nJournal of Humanitarian Assistance: Money to burn? Comparing the Costs and Benefits of Drought Responses in Pastoral Areas of Ethiopia.  <a href=\"https://sites.tufts.edu/jha/archives/1548\" target=\"_blank\">https://sites.tufts.edu/jha/archives/1548</a>\n\n<em>Could development partners and NGOs be the facilitators who by funding initial fattening and finishing activities of drought stricken-livestock, link agribusiness with marginalized pastoralists paving the way for lasting, sustainable, economic development?</em>', 'A Private Sector Solution to Drought Relief', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'open', '', 'private-sector-solution-drought-relief', '', '', '2016-12-29 19:38:35', '2016-12-29 16:38:35', '', 0, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/?p=693', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(696, 1, '2016-10-09 20:08:29', '2016-10-09 17:08:29', '<h1>Food for thought, in times of drought</h1>\r\nHaving worked in development for 25 years, I came to realize that livestock can we can’t speak of food security and the need to link markets to the poor without making the sustainable actors of agribusinesses (large and small) <strong><em>the focus</em></strong> of our activities.  Value-addition of drought-stricken livestock can prevent catastrophic losses of pastoral livestock during droughts.\r\n<h2>Helping Pastoralist Make Money from their Drought-Stricken Livestock</h2>\r\nNGOs and development partners can be, should be – and are critical players in establishing connections between the poor and agribusiness and, through innovative funding can actually show how value addition to products such as pastoral livestock can actually make money in global markets for these export businesses and the pastoralist livestock producers.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC00546-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-694 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC00546-2-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"dsc00546-2\" width=\"338\" height=\"229\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Quality feed and professional management can turn emaciated, drought-stricken livestock into market-ready animals in as little as 2-3 months</em></strong></p>\r\nHere in Kenya and the surrounding Horn of Africa, we have recurrent droughts during which pastoral herders lose 30 – 70 % of their livestock. And by and large, these pastoralists remain unconnected to the global market, so the mortalities continue despite all decades of development assistance, government and NGO programs.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ethiopian-Cattle-Feedlot-IMG-20160330-WA0011-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-695 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ethiopian-Cattle-Feedlot-IMG-20160330-WA0011-2-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"ethiopian-cattle-feedlot-img-20160330-wa0011-2\" width=\"386\" height=\"274\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"> <strong><em>Livestock, even drought-stricken ones, recover quickly with proper care and feed.</em></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Can NGOs &amp; Development Partners Jump-Start the Process?</h2>\r\nCan development partners and NGOs facilitate this linkage between poor pastoral livestock producers and sustainable export traders and agribusiness?\r\n\r\nI believe they can set the stage for the private sector to get involved.\r\n\r\nIf development partners and NGOs fund initial demonstration in partnership with the private sector to demonstrate the benefits of value addition of pastoral drought-stricken livestock, bringing them to market weight so they can be viable products, rather than the dead animal pictures we’ve seen all too often in the Press.\r\n<h2>Private-Sector Cash for Drought -Stricken Livestock</h2>\r\nThis would place cash in the hands of pastoralists during droughts—when they need it most and ensure a sustainable supply of livestock for exporters during periods of drought or even during extended dry spells.\r\n\r\nThis would be business. It would benefit all sides. And most importantly, it would be sustainable and begin linking pastoralists to global markets for the long-term.\r\n\r\n<em>Could development partners and NGOs be the facilitators who by funding initial fattening and finishing activities of drought stricken-livestock, link agribusiness with marginalized pastoralists paving the way for lasting, sustainable, economic development?</em>', 'A Private Sector Solution to Drought Relief', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '693-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 20:08:29', '2016-10-09 17:08:29', '', 693, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/693-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(698, 2, '2016-10-09 20:57:45', '2016-10-09 17:57:45', '<h1></h1>\r\nHaving worked in development for 25 years, I came to realize that livestock can we can’t speak of food security and the need to link markets to the poor without making the sustainable actors of agribusinesses (large and small) <strong><em>the focus</em></strong> of our activities.  Value-addition of drought-stricken livestock can prevent catastrophic losses of pastoral livestock during droughts.\r\n<h2>Helping Pastoralist Make Money from their Drought-Stricken Livestock</h2>\r\nNGOs and development partners can be, should be – and are critical players in establishing connections between the poor and agribusiness and, through innovative funding can actually show how value addition to products such as pastoral livestock can actually make money in global markets for these export businesses and the pastoralist livestock producers.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC00546-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-694 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC00546-2-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"dsc00546-2\" width=\"338\" height=\"229\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Quality feed and professional management can turn emaciated, drought-stricken livestock into market-ready animals in as little as 2-3 months</em></strong></p>\r\nHere in Kenya and the surrounding Horn of Africa, we have recurrent droughts during which pastoral herders lose 30 – 70 % of their livestock. And by and large, these pastoralists remain unconnected to the global market, so the mortalities continue despite all decades of development assistance, government and NGO programs.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ethiopian-Cattle-Feedlot-IMG-20160330-WA0011-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-695 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ethiopian-Cattle-Feedlot-IMG-20160330-WA0011-2-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"ethiopian-cattle-feedlot-img-20160330-wa0011-2\" width=\"386\" height=\"274\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"> <strong><em>Livestock, even drought-stricken ones, recover quickly with proper care and feed.</em></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Can NGOs &amp; Development Partners Jump-Start the Process?</h2>\r\nCan development partners and NGOs facilitate this linkage between poor pastoral livestock producers and sustainable export traders and agribusiness?\r\n\r\nI believe they can set the stage for the private sector to get involved.\r\n\r\nIf development partners and NGOs fund initial demonstration in partnership with the private sector to demonstrate the benefits of value addition of pastoral drought-stricken livestock, bringing them to market weight so they can be viable products, rather than the dead animal pictures we’ve seen all too often in the Press.\r\n<h2>Private-Sector Cash for Drought -Stricken Livestock</h2>\r\nThis would place cash in the hands of pastoralists during droughts—when they need it most and ensure a sustainable supply of livestock for exporters during periods of drought or even during extended dry spells.\r\n\r\nThis would be business. It would benefit all sides. And most importantly, it would be sustainable and begin linking pastoralists to global markets for the long-term.\r\n\r\n<em>Could development partners and NGOs be the facilitators who by funding initial fattening and finishing activities of drought stricken-livestock, link agribusiness with marginalized pastoralists paving the way for lasting, sustainable, economic development?</em>', 'A Private Sector Solution to Drought Relief', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '693-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 20:57:45', '2016-10-09 17:57:45', '', 693, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/693-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(697, 2, '2016-10-09 21:27:42', '2016-10-09 18:27:42', '<h1> Having worked in development for 25 years, I came to realize that livestock can we can’t speak of food security and the need to link markets to the poor without making the sustainable actors of agribusinesses (large and small) <strong><em>the focus</em></strong> of our activities.  Value-addition of drought-stricken livestock can prevent catastrophic losses of pastoral livestock during droughts.</h1>\n<h2>Helping Pastoralist Make Money from their Drought-Stricken Livestock</h2>\nNGOs and development partners can be, should be – and are critical players in establishing connections between the poor and agribusiness and, through innovative funding can actually show how value addition to products such as pastoral livestock can actually make money in global markets for these export businesses and the pastoralist livestock producers.\n\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC00546-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-694 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC00546-2-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"dsc00546-2\" width=\"338\" height=\"229\" /></a>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Quality feed and professional management can turn emaciated, drought-stricken livestock into market-ready animals in as little as 2-3 months</em></strong></p>\nHere in Kenya and the surrounding Horn of Africa, we have recurrent droughts during which pastoral herders lose 30 – 70 % of their livestock. And by and large, these pastoralists remain unconnected to the global market, so the mortalities continue despite all decades of development assistance, government and NGO programs.\n\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ethiopian-Cattle-Feedlot-IMG-20160330-WA0011-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-695 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ethiopian-Cattle-Feedlot-IMG-20160330-WA0011-2-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"ethiopian-cattle-feedlot-img-20160330-wa0011-2\" width=\"386\" height=\"274\" /></a>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"> <strong><em>Livestock, even drought-stricken ones, recover quickly with proper care and feed.</em></strong></p>\n\n<h2>Can NGOs &amp; Development Partners Jump-Start the Process?</h2>\nCan development partners and NGOs facilitate this linkage between poor pastoral livestock producers and sustainable export traders and agribusiness?\n\nI believe they can set the stage for the private sector to get involved.\n\nIf development partners and NGOs fund initial demonstration in partnership with the private sector to demonstrate the benefits of value addition of pastoral drought-stricken livestock, bringing them to market weight so they can be viable products, rather than the dead animal pictures we’ve seen all too often in the Press.\n<h2>Private-Sector Cash for Drought -Stricken Livestock</h2>\nThis would place cash in the hands of pastoralists during droughts—when they need it most and ensure a sustainable supply of livestock for exporters during periods of drought or even during extended dry spells.\n\nThis would be business. It would benefit all sides. And most importantly, it would be sustainable and begin linking pastoralists to global markets for the long-term.\n\n<em>Could development partners and NGOs be the facilitators who by funding initial fattening and finishing activities of drought stricken-livestock, link agribusiness with marginalized pastoralists paving the way for lasting, sustainable, economic development?</em>', 'A Private Sector Solution to Drought Relief', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '693-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 21:27:42', '2016-10-09 18:27:42', '', 693, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/693-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(700, 2, '2016-10-09 21:30:10', '2016-10-09 18:30:10', '<h1> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Having worked in development for 25 years, I came to realize that can we can’t speak of food security and the need to link markets to the poor without making the sustainable actors of agribusinesses (large and small) <strong><em>the focus</em></strong> of our activities.  Value-addition of drought-stricken livestock can prevent catastrophic losses of pastoral livestock during droughts.</span></h1>\r\n<h2></h2>\r\n<h2>Helping pastoralists make money from their drought-stricken livestock</h2>\r\nNGOs and development partners can be, should be – and are critical players in establishing connections between the poor and agribusiness and, through innovative funding can actually show how value addition to products such as pastoral livestock can actually make money in global markets for these export businesses and the pastoralist livestock producers.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC00546-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-694 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC00546-2-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"dsc00546-2\" width=\"338\" height=\"229\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Quality feed and professional management can turn emaciated, drought-stricken livestock into market-ready animals in as little as 2-3 months</em></strong></p>\r\nHere in Kenya and the surrounding Horn of Africa, we have recurrent droughts during which pastoral herders lose 30 – 70 % of their livestock. And by and large, these pastoralists remain unconnected to the global market, so the mortalities continue despite all decades of development assistance, government and NGO programs.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ethiopian-Cattle-Feedlot-IMG-20160330-WA0011-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-695 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ethiopian-Cattle-Feedlot-IMG-20160330-WA0011-2-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"ethiopian-cattle-feedlot-img-20160330-wa0011-2\" width=\"386\" height=\"274\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"> <strong><em>Livestock, even drought-stricken ones, recover quickly with proper care and feed.</em></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Can NGOs &amp; Development Partners Jump-Start the Process?</h2>\r\nCan development partners and NGOs facilitate this linkage between poor pastoral livestock producers and sustainable export traders and agribusiness?\r\n\r\nI believe they can set the stage for the private sector to get involved.\r\n\r\nIf development partners and NGOs fund initial demonstration in partnership with the private sector to demonstrate the benefits of value addition of pastoral drought-stricken livestock, bringing them to market weight so they can be viable products, rather than the dead animal pictures we’ve seen all too often in the Press.\r\n<h2>Private-Sector Cash for Drought -Stricken Livestock</h2>\r\nThis would place cash in the hands of pastoralists during droughts—when they need it most and ensure a sustainable supply of livestock for exporters during periods of drought or even during extended dry spells.\r\n\r\nThis would be business. It would benefit all sides. And most importantly, it would be sustainable and begin linking pastoralists to global markets for the long-term.\r\n\r\n<em>Could development partners and NGOs be the facilitators who by funding initial fattening and finishing activities of drought stricken-livestock, link agribusiness with marginalized pastoralists paving the way for lasting, sustainable, economic development?</em>', 'A Private Sector Solution to Drought Relief', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '693-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 21:30:10', '2016-10-09 18:30:10', '', 693, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/693-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(699, 2, '2016-10-09 21:27:23', '2016-10-09 18:27:23', '<h1> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Having worked in development for 25 years, I came to realize that livestock can we can’t speak of food security and the need to link markets to the poor without making the sustainable actors of agribusinesses (large and small) <strong><em>the focus</em></strong> of our activities.  Value-addition of drought-stricken livestock can prevent catastrophic losses of pastoral livestock during droughts.</span></h1>\r\n<h2></h2>\r\n<h2>Helping pastoralists make money from their drought-stricken livestock</h2>\r\nNGOs and development partners can be, should be – and are critical players in establishing connections between the poor and agribusiness and, through innovative funding can actually show how value addition to products such as pastoral livestock can actually make money in global markets for these export businesses and the pastoralist livestock producers.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC00546-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-694 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC00546-2-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"dsc00546-2\" width=\"338\" height=\"229\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Quality feed and professional management can turn emaciated, drought-stricken livestock into market-ready animals in as little as 2-3 months</em></strong></p>\r\nHere in Kenya and the surrounding Horn of Africa, we have recurrent droughts during which pastoral herders lose 30 – 70 % of their livestock. And by and large, these pastoralists remain unconnected to the global market, so the mortalities continue despite all decades of development assistance, government and NGO programs.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ethiopian-Cattle-Feedlot-IMG-20160330-WA0011-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-695 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ethiopian-Cattle-Feedlot-IMG-20160330-WA0011-2-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"ethiopian-cattle-feedlot-img-20160330-wa0011-2\" width=\"386\" height=\"274\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"> <strong><em>Livestock, even drought-stricken ones, recover quickly with proper care and feed.</em></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Can NGOs &amp; Development Partners Jump-Start the Process?</h2>\r\nCan development partners and NGOs facilitate this linkage between poor pastoral livestock producers and sustainable export traders and agribusiness?\r\n\r\nI believe they can set the stage for the private sector to get involved.\r\n\r\nIf development partners and NGOs fund initial demonstration in partnership with the private sector to demonstrate the benefits of value addition of pastoral drought-stricken livestock, bringing them to market weight so they can be viable products, rather than the dead animal pictures we’ve seen all too often in the Press.\r\n<h2>Private-Sector Cash for Drought -Stricken Livestock</h2>\r\nThis would place cash in the hands of pastoralists during droughts—when they need it most and ensure a sustainable supply of livestock for exporters during periods of drought or even during extended dry spells.\r\n\r\nThis would be business. It would benefit all sides. And most importantly, it would be sustainable and begin linking pastoralists to global markets for the long-term.\r\n\r\n<em>Could development partners and NGOs be the facilitators who by funding initial fattening and finishing activities of drought stricken-livestock, link agribusiness with marginalized pastoralists paving the way for lasting, sustainable, economic development?</em>', 'A Private Sector Solution to Drought Relief', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '693-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-09 21:27:23', '2016-10-09 18:27:23', '', 693, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/693-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1131, 1, '2022-10-19 09:52:46', '2022-10-19 06:52:46', '<h1><strong>Summary of LTS&nbsp;Services, Activities, and Projects</strong></h1>\nLTS supports livestock and meat trade through a variety of service offerings, management and operations activities and access to quality disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free livestock and meat.\n<ul>\n 	<li><a href=\"#Q-Design\"><strong>Quarantine Design and Construction Services </strong></a></li>\n 	<li><a href=\"#Q-M&amp;O\"><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations Services</strong></a></li>\n 	<li><a href=\"#Trace\"><strong>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems </strong></a></li>\n 	<li><strong><a href=\"#Transport\">Stress-free Transportation Services</a> &nbsp;</strong></li>\n 	<li><a href=\"#End-to-End\"><strong><em>End-to-End</em></strong><strong> Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations, Supervision, and Quality Assurance</strong></a></li>\n 	<li><a href=\"#SlaughterH\"><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement &amp; Management Services </strong></a></li>\n 	<li><a href=\"#LivestockFFF\"><strong>Livestock Feed Production, Fattening and Finishing Services </strong></a></li>\n 	<li><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/activities-projects/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Our Activities and Projects</a> &nbsp;</strong></li>\n</ul>\n<h2 id=\"Q-Design\"><strong>Quarantine Design and Construction Services</strong></h2>\n<h1><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"415\" height=\"240\"></a></h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Djibouti Regional Export Quarantine designed by LTS staff</p>\n\n<ul>\n 	<li>State-of-the-art quarantine design. Livestock export quarantines are highly technical and often expensive to construct due to their size. Many factors such as water flow, wind direction and speed, soil types and previous industrial or agricultural activities, resident and nearby wildlife and livestock populations, and proximity to the&nbsp;port of export all play important factors in determining the&nbsp;suitability and the exact design of a quarantine.</li>\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\n 	<li>With each new design we introduce cost-effective changes and innovations and in some cases are able to reduce the cost of a livestock export quarantine by as much as 50% using innovative and environmentally friendly construction materials.</li>\n 	<li>We can deliver advanced <em>state-of-the-art</em> livestock quarantines to fit most purposes anywhere in the world.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2 id=\"Q-M&amp;O\"><strong style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\"></a></strong></h1>\n<ul>\n 	<li>Livestock and meat trade requires professional management.</li>\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that&nbsp;<em>all&nbsp;</em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.</li>\n 	<li>Rejections by importing countries are highly embarrassing for the exporter and the exporting country. Additionally, they are costly mistakes both in terms of revenue and animal welfare.</li>\n 	<li>Our approach is and will always remain science-based.&nbsp; Thus our rates of rejection will always remain far below average, avoiding trade bans and ensuring the highest possible revenue for exporters.</li>\n 	<li>Quarantine bio-security is critical to keeping livestock healthy, wholesome and disease free. &nbsp;This requires limited access, disease-free feed, and careful purposeful management to esure that disease is kept out of the quarantine facility.</li>\n</ul>\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\"></a> Somali Berberi (Black-headed Persian Sheep) in the Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\n<h2 id=\"Trace\">Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems</h2>\n<ul>\n 	<li>Our LTS proprietary Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\n</ul>\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\"></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\n\nTraceability of livestock and meat are key to the professional management of LTS livestock and meat trade.\n<h2 id=\"Transport\"><strong><em>Stress-Free</em></strong><strong> Transportation Services </strong></h2>\n<strong><em>Livestock quarantines extend from the point of entry to arrival at the destination port. </em></strong>\n\nTransportation is critical to the animal welfare, quality and disease-free status of livestock. Perfectly quarantined livestock placed on a contaminated ship will arrive stressed and diseased.\n\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Livetock-ship-CattleCarrier1-inside.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-719 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Livetock-ship-CattleCarrier1-inside-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"livetock-ship-cattlecarrier1-inside\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"></a>\n\nProvision of quality feed, water, ventilation, protection from the elements, and appropriate space for livestock to freely move are all absolutely necessary in livestock transport.\n\nLTS maintains its staff on all livestock ships carrying animals from any of the quarantines that we manage.\n\nGround transportation has similar requirements and needs.&nbsp; LTS ensures that all livestock ground transporters serving LTS-managed quarantines sign on to and strictly follow LTS transportation protocols which include feed and water stops for long-distance trips and prevent overcrowding and stressing of livestock transported by trucks or railways.\n<ul>\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\n 	<li><strong>&nbsp;</strong>LTS offers shipping services with our technical staff&nbsp;on-board&nbsp;ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock&nbsp;is&nbsp;maintained.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2 id=\"End-to-End\"><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations&nbsp;</strong></h2>\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\"></a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\"></a>\n<ul>\n 	<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\n 	<li>specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<h2 id=\"LivestockFFF\"><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock&nbsp;</strong></h2>\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\"></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\"></a>\n\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\n<h3>Innovative feed technologies</h3>\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\"></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was&nbsp;taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\n<ul>\n 	<li>Most of the livestock that we serve are young animals that were born and have spent their life on pristine organic pastures where livestock are shepherded by renown Masai, Samburu, Somali, and Orma pastoralists who carefully guide their livestock to the best grasses.</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n 	<li>To ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed often produced on our own farms.</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n 	<li>Additionally we offer services to fatten and finish livestock at other locations such as holding grounds, feedlots, and quarantines</li>\n</ul>\n<h1 id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\"></h1>\n<h2 id=\"SlaughterH\"><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-Nairobi-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-251 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-Nairobi-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"nema-slaughterhouse-nairobi-2\" width=\"221\" height=\"124\"></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-well-flayed-Goats.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-170\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-well-flayed-Goats-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"nema-slaughterhouse-well-flayed-goats\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"></a>\n<ul>\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight generally in service to higher-end exporters who are proud to ship quality products to their customers.</li>\n 	<li>We also provide full slaughterhouse management and operations services for meat processors wishing to improve their quality and provide tender, appealing meat to the marketplace.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Livestock Feed Production &amp; Livestock Fattening and Finishing Services</h2>\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-171 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"coastal-farm-open-space-goats-dsc_0577\" width=\"431\" height=\"243\"></a>\n\nOur Coastal Riverside Farm in Kenya provides a perfect environment for livestock feed production under irrigation and a wholesome place for livestock fattening and finishing livestock for domestic or overseas market.\n\nLivestock are kept stress-free in a natural environment and are finished on the highest quality feed available, assuring their antibiotic-free, hormone-free, and disease free status.\n\nLTS can grow a variety of high quality livestock feed for domesitc use or export. &nbsp;Our feed can be certified disease-free so that it can be used in biosecure locations such as livestock quarantines and on ships.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-autosave-v1', '', '', '2022-10-19 09:52:46', '2022-10-19 06:52:46', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/?p=1131', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(708, 1, '2016-10-13 13:58:41', '2016-10-13 10:58:41', 'In September 2016, the LTS CEO and Chairman of the Kenya Meat and Exporter\'s Association visited the site of the ongoing construction of the Government of Kenya Bachuma Livestock Export Quarantine.\r\n\r\nThe quarantine sits on a 15,000-acre site and is well positioned for cost-effective, disease-free livestock export through Mombasa Port.\r\n<h3>The Most Biosecure Quarantine in Africa</h3>\r\nIt is <em>the most protected and biosecure of all quarantines in Africa</em> today.  With 4 distinct and robust barricades to entry, the quarantine is <strong>highly fortified creating a facility that will be truly isolated from livestock, wildlife, and people</strong>.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_430\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"291\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachua-Perimeter-Trench-3mx3mx3m-Under-Construction-Paint.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-430 \" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachua-Perimeter-Trench-3mx3mx3m-Under-Construction-Paint-169x300.jpg\" width=\"291\" height=\"517\" /></a> 3-meter wide by 3-meter deep trench with vertical walls (under construction). The quarantine has triple barriers to entry making it the most highly secure quarantine ever constructed in Africa.[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_433\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"293\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-quarantine-perimeter-fence-from-outside-Paint.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-433\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-quarantine-perimeter-fence-from-outside-Paint-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Quarantine Perimeter Fence taken from outside.\" width=\"293\" height=\"520\" /></a> Quarantine Perimeter Fence taken from outside.[/caption]\r\n\r\nThe quarantine will accommodate sheep, goats, cattle and camel and is a state-of-the-art design that LTS participated in.  We look forward to continuing to work with the Government to make this quarantine highly successful and establish and maintain a record of zero exports of livestock disease from Kenya.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_398\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"398\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Construction-Sheep-Goat-Pen-1.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-398\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Construction-Sheep-Goat-Pen-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Goat and sheep quarantine pen under construction. \" width=\"398\" height=\"224\" /></a> Goat and sheep quarantine pen under construction.[/caption]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_412\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"401\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Construction-Sheep-Goat-pen-entrance-2.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-412\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Construction-Sheep-Goat-pen-entrance-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Internal livestock pen fence providing a third and highly secure facility. \" width=\"401\" height=\"226\" /></a> Internal livestock pen fence providing a third and highly secure facility.[/caption]\r\n\r\nWithin 200 meters of the quarantine, a new Standard Guage Railroad is ready to transport livestock to the quarantine and once livestock are properly quarantined and are ready for export, to the nearby seaport for export.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Quarantine-Standard-Gague-Rail-Test-Train.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-405 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Quarantine-Standard-Gague-Rail-Test-Train-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"bachuma-quarantine-standard-gague-rail-test-train\" width=\"421\" height=\"238\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe quarantine is set to be ready for shipments by the close of 2016.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/news/lts-secures-quarantine-management-contract/\">LTS secures Quarantine Management Contract</a>      </strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/investor-opportunities/\"><strong>Investor Relations</strong></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>enquiries</strong> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>            <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>', 'LTS Visits Kenya\'s Biosecure Bachuma Livesock Export Quarantine', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '395-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-13 13:58:41', '2016-10-13 10:58:41', '', 395, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/395-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(709, 1, '2016-10-13 14:00:07', '2016-10-13 11:00:07', 'In September 2016, the LTS CEO and Chairman of the Kenya Meat and Exporter\'s Association visited the site of the ongoing construction of the Government of Kenya Bachuma Livestock Export Quarantine.\r\n\r\nThe quarantine sits on a 15,000-acre site and is well positioned for cost-effective, disease-free livestock export through Mombasa Port.\r\n<h3>The Most Biosecure Quarantine in Africa</h3>\r\nIt is <em>the most protected and biosecure of all quarantines in Africa</em> today.  With 4 distinct and robust barricades to entry, the quarantine is <strong>highly fortified creating a facility that will be truly isolated from livestock, wildlife, and people</strong>.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_430\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"291\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachua-Perimeter-Trench-3mx3mx3m-Under-Construction-Paint.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-430 \" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachua-Perimeter-Trench-3mx3mx3m-Under-Construction-Paint-169x300.jpg\" width=\"291\" height=\"517\" /></a> 3-meter wide by 3-meter deep trench with vertical walls (under construction). The quarantine has triple barriers to entry making it the most highly secure quarantine ever constructed in Africa.[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_433\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"293\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-quarantine-perimeter-fence-from-outside-Paint.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-433\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-quarantine-perimeter-fence-from-outside-Paint-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Quarantine Perimeter Fence taken from outside.\" width=\"293\" height=\"520\" /></a> Quarantine Perimeter Fence taken from outside.[/caption]\r\n\r\nThe quarantine will accommodate sheep, goats, cattle and camel and is a state-of-the-art design that LTS participated in.  We look forward to continuing to work with the Government to make this quarantine highly successful and establish and maintain a record of zero exports of livestock disease from Kenya.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_398\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"398\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Construction-Sheep-Goat-Pen-1.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-398\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Construction-Sheep-Goat-Pen-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Goat and sheep quarantine pen under construction. \" width=\"398\" height=\"224\" /></a> Goat and sheep quarantine pen under construction.[/caption]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_412\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"401\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Construction-Sheep-Goat-pen-entrance-2.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-412\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Construction-Sheep-Goat-pen-entrance-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Internal livestock pen fence providing a third and highly secure facility. \" width=\"401\" height=\"226\" /></a> Internal livestock pen fence providing a third and highly secure facility.[/caption]\r\n<h3>Rapid, safe, and biosecure transport to the coast</h3>\r\nWithin 200 meters of the quarantine, a new Standard Guage Railroad is ready to transport livestock to the quarantine and once livestock are properly quarantined and are ready for export, to the nearby seaport for export.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Quarantine-Standard-Gague-Rail-Test-Train.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-405 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Quarantine-Standard-Gague-Rail-Test-Train-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"bachuma-quarantine-standard-gague-rail-test-train\" width=\"421\" height=\"238\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe quarantine is set to be ready for shipments by the close of 2016.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/news/lts-secures-quarantine-management-contract/\">LTS secures Quarantine Management Contract</a>      </strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/investor-opportunities/\"><strong>Investor Relations</strong></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>enquiries</strong> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>            <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>', 'LTS Visits Kenya\'s Biosecure Bachuma Livesock Export Quarantine', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '395-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-13 14:00:07', '2016-10-13 11:00:07', '', 395, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/395-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(710, 1, '2016-10-14 16:15:21', '2016-10-14 13:15:21', 'In September 2016, the LTS CEO and the Chairman of the Kenya Meat and Exporter\'s Association visited the site of the ongoing construction of the Government of Kenya Bachuma Livestock Export Quarantine.\r\n\r\nThe quarantine sits on a 15,000-acre site and is well positioned for cost-effective, disease-free livestock export through Mombasa Port.\r\n<h3>The Most Biosecure Quarantine in Africa</h3>\r\nIt is <em>the most protected and biosecure of all quarantines in Africa</em> today.  With 4 distinct and robust barricades to entry, the quarantine is <strong>highly fortified creating a facility that will be truly isolated from livestock, wildlife, and people</strong>.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_430\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"291\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachua-Perimeter-Trench-3mx3mx3m-Under-Construction-Paint.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-430 \" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachua-Perimeter-Trench-3mx3mx3m-Under-Construction-Paint-169x300.jpg\" width=\"291\" height=\"517\" /></a> 3-meter wide by 3-meter deep trench with vertical walls (under construction). The quarantine has triple barriers to entry making it the most highly secure quarantine ever constructed in Africa.[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_433\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"293\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-quarantine-perimeter-fence-from-outside-Paint.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-433\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-quarantine-perimeter-fence-from-outside-Paint-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Quarantine Perimeter Fence taken from outside.\" width=\"293\" height=\"520\" /></a> Quarantine Perimeter Fence taken from outside.[/caption]\r\n\r\nThe quarantine will accommodate sheep, goats, cattle and camel and is a state-of-the-art design that LTS participated in.  We look forward to continuing to work with the Government to make this quarantine highly successful and establish and maintain a record of zero exports of livestock disease from Kenya.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_398\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"398\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Construction-Sheep-Goat-Pen-1.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-398\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Construction-Sheep-Goat-Pen-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Goat and sheep quarantine pen under construction. \" width=\"398\" height=\"224\" /></a> Goat and sheep quarantine pen under construction.[/caption]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_412\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"401\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Construction-Sheep-Goat-pen-entrance-2.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-412\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Construction-Sheep-Goat-pen-entrance-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Internal livestock pen fence providing a third and highly secure facility. \" width=\"401\" height=\"226\" /></a> Internal livestock pen fence providing a third and highly secure facility.[/caption]\r\n<h3>Rapid, safe, and biosecure transport to the coast</h3>\r\nWithin 200 meters of the quarantine, a new Standard Guage Railroad is ready to transport livestock to the quarantine and once livestock are properly quarantined and are ready for export, to the nearby seaport for export.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Quarantine-Standard-Gague-Rail-Test-Train.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-405 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bachuma-Quarantine-Standard-Gague-Rail-Test-Train-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"bachuma-quarantine-standard-gague-rail-test-train\" width=\"421\" height=\"238\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe quarantine is set to be ready for shipments by the close of 2016.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/news/lts-secures-quarantine-management-contract/\">LTS secures Quarantine Management Contract</a>      </strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/investor-opportunities/\"><strong>Investor Relations</strong></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>enquiries</strong> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>            <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>', 'LTS Visits Kenya\'s Biosecure Bachuma Livesock Export Quarantine', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '395-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-14 16:15:21', '2016-10-14 13:15:21', '', 395, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/395-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(711, 1, '2016-10-14 16:17:25', '2016-10-14 13:17:25', '<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-Logo-Final.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-83\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-Logo-Final-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"lts-logo-final\" width=\"248\" height=\"176\" /></a></p>\r\nOur approach to management is highly interactive.  We engage our staff empowering them to question everything we do and develop even better, more efficient solutions.\r\n\r\nDr. Chip Stem,  CEO of LTS has 40 years’ experience in livestock production, disease control, export and import processing and trade.\r\n\r\n<img class=\" wp-image-38 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x103.jpg\" alt=\"cropped-Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"137\" />\r\n\r\nDr. Stem conceived and developed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Africa.  His unique design has become the standard for livestock export quarantines.\r\n\r\nPrior to that, he led a small team to develop a thermos-stable rinderpest vaccine which became the vaccine of choice for the Global Rinderpest Eradication Program.  This vaccine permitted community-based animal health workers, government agents, and private veterinarians to keep the vaccine without refrigeration for a month or more.\r\n\r\nBeginning in 1983, Dr. Stem while an Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, pioneered the concept of community-based animal health workers, by training pastoralists and farmers to operate their own animal health businesses under the watchful eyes and supervision of a licensed veterinarian.  This system was largely responsible for the rapid success in delivering tens of millions of doses of rinderpest to countries in the Horn of Africa, Central Africa, and West Africa eradicating this most serious livestock disease from the continent and eventually the world.  Rinderpest is only the second disease (after smallpox) to have been globally eradicated by man.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-244 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"coastal-farm-open-space-goats-dsc_0577\" width=\"369\" height=\"208\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLTS staff consist of highly ethical professionals and lay personnel who have a sense of service and understand the importance of their work in protecting consumers from unhygienic or tainted meat and livestock in importing countries from livestock disease.\r\n\r\nDr. Stem holds a BS in Biology from St, John Fisher College, Rochester, New York; a DVM from the University of Nairobi, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Nairobi Kenya; Internship and Residency Certificates from The New York State College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, and a MA in Economics and International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.\r\n\r\nHe served as faculty and Head of International Veterinary Programs at Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and also on the faculty of the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at the Feinstein International Center, and Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. \r\n\r\n<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"https://platform.linkedin.com/badges/js/profile.js\" async defer></script>\r\n<div class=\"LI-profile-badge\"  data-version=\"v1\" data-size=\"medium\" data-locale=\"en_US\" data-type=\"horizontal\" data-theme=\"dark\" data-vanity=\"chip-stem-280838b\"><a class=\"LI-simple-link\" href=\'https://ke.linkedin.com/in/chip-stem-280838b?trk=profile-badge\'>Chip Stem</a></div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/operational-partners/\">Operational Partners </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/publications/\">Publications </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/\">About Us  </a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>', 'Management', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-14 16:17:25', '2016-10-14 13:17:25', '', 4, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/4-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(713, 2, '2016-10-16 09:24:14', '2016-10-16 06:24:14', '<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-28 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/LTS-logo-300x184.png\" alt=\"lts-logo\" width=\"448\" height=\"275\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Lives</strong><strong>tock Trade Services (LTS) is a UK-based private holding company that houses country-level livestock inspection, certification, quality assurance, and traceability services for the export trade in livestock and meat. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Additionally, LTS is the parent company for Agri-Secure International, a Kenyan based river side livestock fattening and finishing farm that specializes in the production or high-quality feed and livestock for discerning importing markets. </strong>\r\n<h1><strong>Adding Value </strong><strong>to Livestock and Meat</strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Livestock Trade Services was formed to work independent of, but with livestock and meat exporters, importers, governments, producers and processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-87 alignnone\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"437\" height=\"246\" /></a></li>\r\n 	<li>As an independent specialized service provider, LTS works only in livestock and meat. Our proprietary Animal Passport and Traceability system provide quality  assurance that our products are what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We strive to increase consumer and governmental trust and confidence in any product we handle.  This is why we guarantee our products to be what we say they are.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS was formed in 2005 in London. Operations are in the Horn of Africa and the GCC with plans for extension into Middle East Countries.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We serve exporters, importers, and governments. In addition, we provide training and consulting services to live animal and meat export processors.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1><strong>Our Activities and Projects </strong></h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Operations &amp; Management </strong></h2>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"421\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"421\" height=\"237\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n<div id=\"OmanAboutUs\">\r\n\r\n<h3> Export Quarantine from Oman to the UAE</h3>\r\nLTS has been contracted by a major UAE importer to operate and manage an export quarantine from Oman to the UAE.  LTS works under the supervision of the Sultanate of Oman and with guidance and direction from UAE, the importing country.  The quarantine operates according to strict LTS protocols and procedures.\r\n\r\nIn addition to quarantine services, LTS provides livestock selection, purchase, and transport services for the UAE importing company.\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"KenyaExportQuarantine\">\r\n\r\n<h3>Export Quarantine from Kenya to GCC, ME, and Asia</h3>\r\nLTS is planning to begin livestock export quarantine operations and management activities in the near future from Kenya.\r\n\r\nOur services will include livestock selection, fattening and finishing, transport supervision, animal welfare, quarantine services, and quarantined shipping services to ensure that all animals arrive on spec &amp; <em>disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free</em>.\r\n<div id=\"KenyaMeatExport\">\r\n<h2><strong>Livestock Fattening, Finishing &amp; Meat Export </strong></h2>\r\n<h3><strong>Kenya Meat Export</strong></h3>\r\nWorking with a quality-oriented livestock exporter, Blue Mountain Meat and Livestock, LTS conducts production, supply, and processing chain management to ensure meat exported meets importer specifications and is hygienic, wholesome and disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free.\r\n\r\n\r\nWe offer grass-fed, grain-finished, and organic meat products.\r\n\r\nLTS also undertakes innovative fattening and finishing operations to ensure a reliable supply of consistent quality is provided to the importer.\r\n\r\nIn addition, LTS liaises with Blue Mountain to identify appropriate clients, negotiate contracts and pricing and facilitating Shari’ah Compliant financing.\r\n<h3> <strong>Kenya Meat and Livestock Exporters Association</strong></h3>\r\nAs the Specialized Livestock Service Provider for Kenya meat and livestock exporters, LTS is working to create quality products for exporters, moving them up the value chain, increasing profits and ensuring a smooth flow of meat and livestock to the destination port.\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"KenyaSlaughterhouseManagement\">\r\n<h3><strong>Slaughterhouse Operations &amp; Management — new slaughterhouse</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-234 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"basra-slaugherhouse-1\" width=\"298\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLTS is in negotiations to manage a newly-built international standard slaughterhouse for the export of quality, well-flayed and expertly chilled meat from Kenya.  LTS management will ensure that the meat is tender, hygienic and wholesome for discerning global customers.  Additionally, we will also ensure that the meat is anitibiotic- and hormone-free.</div>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/management/\">Management</a>     <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/operational-partners/\">Operational Partners </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/publications/\">Publications </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>\r\n</div>', 'About Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '48-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-16 09:24:14', '2016-10-16 06:24:14', '', 48, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/48-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(729, 1, '2016-11-06 15:21:38', '2016-11-06 12:21:38', '<h1>Activities &amp; Projects</h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Operations &amp; Management </strong></h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"401\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"401\" height=\"226\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n<h3><strong>Export Quarantine from Oman to the UAE</strong></h3>\r\nLTS has been contracted by a major UAE importer to operate and manage an export quarantine from Oman to the UAE.  LTS works under the supervision of the Sultanate of Oman and with guidance and direction from UAE, the importing country.  The quarantine operates according to strict LTS protocols and procedures.\r\n\r\nIn addition to quarantine services, LTS provides livestock selection, purchase, and transport services for the UAE importing company.\r\n<h3><strong>Export Quarantine from Kenya to GCC, ME, and Asia</strong></h3>\r\nLTS is planning to begin livestock export quarantine operations and management activities in the near future from Kenya.\r\n\r\nOur services will include livestock selection, fattening and finishing, transport supervision, animal welfare, quarantine services, and quarantined shipping services to ensure that all animals arrive on spec &amp; <em>disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free</em>.\r\n<h2><strong>Livestock Fattening, Finishing &amp; Meat Export </strong></h2>\r\n<h3><strong>Kenya Meat Export</strong></h3>\r\nWorking with a quality-oriented livestock exporter, Blue Mountain Meat and Livestock, LTS conducts production, supply, and processing chain management to ensure meat exported meets importer specifications and is hygienic, wholesome and disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free.\r\n\r\nWe offer grass-fed, grain-finished, and organic meat products.\r\n\r\nLTS also undertakes innovative fattening and finishing operations to ensure a reliable supply of consistent quality is provided to the importer.\r\n\r\nIn addition, LTS liaises with Blue Mountain to identify appropriate clients, negotiate contracts and pricing and facilitating Shari’ah Compliant financing and operations.\r\n<h3><strong>Kenya Meat and Livestock Exporters Association</strong></h3>\r\nAs the Specialized Livestock Service Provider for Kenya meat and livestock exporters, LTS is working to create quality products for exporters, moving them up the value chain, increasing profits and ensuring a smooth flow of meat and livestock to the destination port.\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Operations &amp; Management — new slaughterhouse</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-234 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"basra-slaugherhouse-1\" width=\"225\" height=\"399\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLTS is in negotiations to manage a newly-built international standard slaughterhouse for the export of quality, well-flayed and expertly chilled meat from Kenya.  LTS management will ensure that the meat is tender, hygienic and wholesome for discerning global customers.  Additionally, we will also ensure that the meat is antibiotic- and hormone-free.\r\n<h2>Coastal Riverside Farm</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_723\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"495\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/farm-river-view-1.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-723\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/farm-river-view-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The largest river in East Africa flows through our farm providing plenty of water for irrigation.\" width=\"495\" height=\"279\" /></a> The largest river in East Africa flows through our farm providing plenty of water for irrigation.[/caption]\r\n<h3>Irrigated Livestock Feed and Livestock Fattening and Finishing Operations</h3>\r\nOur 100,000-acre farm along the north coast of Kenya is well placed for the development of livestock fattening and finishing operations since it has a large river meandering through which provides abundant water for irrigation purposes.\r\n\r\nIn keeping with our core values, we\'ve formed a solid profit-share relationship with the local community ensuring that we will work together for our mutual interest for generations to come.\r\n\r\nWe offer contract services for livestock feed production and or fattening and finishing services for exporter and producer clients.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_724\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"380\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-1.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-724\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Activities & Projects', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '727-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-06 15:21:38', '2016-11-06 12:21:38', '', 727, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/727-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(730, 1, '2016-11-06 15:40:47', '2016-11-06 12:40:47', '<h1>Activities &amp; Projects</h1>\r\nThrough its End-to-End supply, processing, and transport management, LTS assures well-quarantined livestock and virgin organic meat that has been strictly managed and quality assured to meet or exceed client expectations.\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Operations &amp; Management </strong></h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"401\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"401\" height=\"226\" /></a> Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n<h3><strong>Export Quarantine from Oman to the UAE</strong></h3>\r\nLTS has been contracted by a major UAE importer to operate and manage an export quarantine from Oman to the UAE.  LTS works under the supervision of the Sultanate of Oman and with guidance and direction from UAE, the importing country.  The quarantine operates according to strict LTS protocols and procedures.\r\n\r\nIn addition to quarantine services, LTS provides livestock selection, purchase, and transport services for the UAE importing company.\r\n<h3><strong>Export Quarantine from Kenya to GCC, ME, and Asia</strong></h3>\r\nLTS is planning to begin livestock export quarantine operations and management activities in the near future from Kenya.\r\n\r\nOur services will include livestock selection, fattening and finishing, transport supervision, animal welfare, quarantine services, and quarantined shipping services to ensure that all animals arrive on spec &amp; <em>disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free</em>.\r\n<h2><strong>Livestock Fattening, Finishing &amp; Meat Export </strong></h2>\r\n<h3><strong>Kenya Meat Export</strong></h3>\r\nWorking with a quality-oriented livestock exporter, Blue Mountain Meat and Livestock, LTS conducts production, supply, and processing chain management to ensure meat exported meets importer specifications and is hygienic, wholesome and disease- antibiotic- and hormone-free.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_37\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"379\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.50.05.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-37\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.50.05-300x167.png\" alt=\"We offer grass fed, grain finished, and virgin organic   livestock and meat products.\" width=\"379\" height=\"211\" /></a> We offer grass fed, grain finished, and virgin organic meat and livestock products.[/caption]\r\n\r\nLTS also undertakes innovative fattening and finishing operations to ensure a reliable supply of consistent quality is provided to the importer.\r\n\r\nOur organic livestock and meat is derived from virgin organic pastures and finished on hydroponic grass seedlings. It is hormone-free, pesticide-free, herbicide-free, antibiotic-free and 100% natural.\r\n\r\nIn addition, LTS liaises with Blue Mountain to identify appropriate clients, negotiate contracts and pricing and facilitating Shari’ah Compliant financing and operations.\r\n<h3><strong>Kenya Meat and Livestock Exporters Association</strong></h3>\r\nAs the Specialized Livestock Service Provider for Kenya meat and livestock exporters, LTS is working to create quality products for exporters, moving them up the value chain, increasing profits and ensuring a smooth flow of meat and livestock to the destination port.\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Operations &amp; Management — new slaughterhouse</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-234 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Basra-Slaugherhouse-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"basra-slaugherhouse-1\" width=\"225\" height=\"399\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLTS is in negotiations to manage a newly-built international standard slaughterhouse for the export of quality, well-flayed and expertly chilled meat from Kenya.  LTS management will ensure that the meat is tender, hygienic and wholesome for discerning global customers.  Additionally, we will also ensure that the meat is antibiotic- and hormone-free.\r\n<h2>Coastal Riverside Farm</h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_723\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"495\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/farm-river-view-1.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-723\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/farm-river-view-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The largest river in East Africa flows through our farm providing plenty of water for irrigation.\" width=\"495\" height=\"279\" /></a> The largest river in East Africa flows through our farm providing plenty of water for irrigation.[/caption]\r\n<h3>Irrigated Livestock Feed and Livestock Fattening and Finishing Operations</h3>\r\nOur 100,000-acre farm along the north coast of Kenya is well placed for the development of livestock fattening and finishing operations since it has a large river meandering through which provides abundant water for irrigation purposes.\r\n\r\nIn keeping with our core values, we\'ve formed a solid profit-share relationship with the local community ensuring that we will work together for our mutual interest for generations to come.\r\n\r\nWe offer contract services for livestock feed production and or fattening and finishing services for exporter and producer clients.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_724\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"380\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-1.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-724\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" /></a> Center-pivot irrigation can be used on our farm to grow quality feed to fatten and finish livestock.[/caption]\r\n\r\n<div id=\"KenyaSlaughterhouseManagement\">\r\n\r\nPlans at the Coastal Riverside Farm call for an integrated development of irrigated livestock feed production, cropping, livestock fattening and finishing, drought response, and a state-of-the-art livestock export quarantine, to be followed by an EU-standard modern slaughterhouse.\r\n\r\nWe will strive to produce the highest quality quarantined livestock and virgin organic meat to our discerning clientelle worldwide.\r\n<h3><strong>Renewable Energy - Biogas &amp; Solar</strong></h3>\r\nTaking advantage of the manure from livestock fattening, finishing and quarantine operations as well as intense tropical solar radiation, we have sufficient land available the development of solar, biogas, and other renewable energies.\r\n\r\nTo facilitate feed-in to the Kenyan national electricity grid there is an 11 KVA feed-in located on the northeast of our farm.\r\n\r\nThus we have land available for lease to renewable energy companies or can enter into strategic partnerships to produce renewable energy on our coastal riverside farm.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/management/\">Management</a>     <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/operational-partners/\">Operational Partners </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/publications/\">Publications </a>   <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us </a>          <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">HOME</a>', 'Activities & Projects', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '727-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-06 15:40:47', '2016-11-06 12:40:47', '', 727, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/727-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(736, 1, '2016-11-06 16:36:24', '2016-11-06 13:36:24', '<h1><strong>Summary of LTS Services, Activities, and Projects </strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"#Quarantine-Design-and-Construction-Services\"><strong>Quarantine Design and Construction Services </strong></a></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations Services</strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong><em>End-to-End</em></strong><strong> Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations, Supervision, and Quality Assurance</strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Stress-free Transportation Services  </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement &amp; Management Services </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Livestock Feed Production, Fattening and Finishing Services </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/activities-projects/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Activities and Projects</a>  </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design and Construction Services</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"415\" height=\"240\" /></a></h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Djibouti Regional Export Quarantine designed by LTS staff</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art quarantine design. Livestock export quarantines are highly technical and often expensive to construct due to their size. Many factors such as water flow, wind direction and speed, soil types and previous industrial or agricultural activities, resident and nearby wildlife and livestock populations, and proximity to the port of export all play important factors in determining the suitability and the exact design of a quarantine.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n 	<li>With each new design we introduce cost-effective changes and innovations and in some cases are able to reduce the cost of a livestock export quarantine by as much as 50% using innovative and environmentally friendly construction materials.</li>\r\n 	<li>We can deliver advanced <em>state-of-the-art</em> livestock quarantines to fit most purposes anywhere in the world.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.</li>\r\n 	<li>Rejections by importing countries are highly embarrassing for the exporter and the exporting country. Additionally, they are costly mistakes both in terms of revenue and animal welfare.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our approach is and will always remain science-based.  Thus our rates of rejection will always remain far below average, avoiding trade bans and ensuring the highest possible revenue for exporters.</li>\r\n 	<li>Quarantine bio-security is critical to keeping livestock healthy, wholesome and disease free.  This requires limited access, disease-free feed, and careful purposeful management to esure that disease is kept out of the quarantine facility.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Somali Berberi (Black-headed Persian Sheep) in the Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n<h2>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our LTS proprietary Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<h2><strong><em>Stress-Free</em></strong><strong> Transportation Services </strong></h2>\r\n<strong><em>Livestock quarantines extend from the point of entry to arrival at the destination port. </em></strong>\r\n\r\nTransportation is critical to the animal welfare, quality and disease-free status of livestock. Perfectly quarantined livestock placed on a contaminated ship will arrive stressed and diseased.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Livetock-ship-CattleCarrier1-inside.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-719 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Livetock-ship-CattleCarrier1-inside-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"livetock-ship-cattlecarrier1-inside\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" /></a>\r\n\r\nProvision of quality feed, water, ventilation, protection from the elements, and appropriate space for livestock to freely move are all absolutely necessary in livestock transport.\r\n\r\nLTS maintains its staff on all livestock ships carrying animals from any of the quarantines that we manage.\r\n\r\nGround transportation has similar requirements and needs.  LTS ensures that all livestock ground transporters serving LTS-managed quarantines sign on to and strictly follow LTS transportation protocols which include feed and water stops for long-distance trips and prevent overcrowding and stressing of livestock transported by trucks or railways.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li><strong> </strong>LTS offers shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n 	<li>specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h3>Innovative feed technologies</h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Most of the livestock that we serve are young animals that were born and have spent their life on pristine organic pastures where livestock are shepherded by renown Masai, Samburu, Somali, and Orma pastoralists who carefully guide their livestock to the best grasses.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>To ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed often produced on our own farms.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally we offer services to fatten and finish livestock at other locations such as holding grounds, feedlots, and quarantines</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1 id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\"></h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-Nairobi-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-251 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-Nairobi-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"nema-slaughterhouse-nairobi-2\" width=\"221\" height=\"124\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-well-flayed-Goats.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-170\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-well-flayed-Goats-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"nema-slaughterhouse-well-flayed-goats\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight generally in service to higher-end exporters who are proud to ship quality products to their customers.</li>\r\n 	<li>We also provide full slaughterhouse management and operations services for meat processors wishing to improve their quality and provide tender, appealing meat to the marketplace.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>Livestock Feed Production &amp; Livestock Fattening and Finishing Services</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-171 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"coastal-farm-open-space-goats-dsc_0577\" width=\"431\" height=\"243\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOur Coastal Riverside Farm in Kenya provides a perfect environment for livestock feed production under irrigation and a wholesome place for livestock fattening and finishing livestock for domestic or overseas market.\r\n\r\nLivestock are kept stress-free in a natural environment and are finished on the highest quality feed available, assuring their antibiotic-free, hormone-free, and disease free status.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-Alfalfa-1.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-718 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-Alfalfa-1-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"center-pivot-irrigation-alfalfa\" width=\"439\" height=\"243\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLTS can grow a variety of high quality livestock feed for domesitc use or export.  Our feed can be certified disease-free so that it can be used in biosecure locations such as livestock quarantines and on ships.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-06 16:36:24', '2016-11-06 13:36:24', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(733, 1, '2016-11-06 16:32:09', '2016-11-06 13:32:09', '<h1><strong>Summary of LTS Services, Activities, and Projects </strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"#Quarantine-Design-and-Construction-Services\"><strong>Quarantine Design and Construction Services </strong></a></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations Services</strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong><em>End-to-End</em></strong><strong> Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations, Supervision, and Quality Assurance</strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Stress-free Transportation Services  </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement &amp; Management Services </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Livestock Feed Production, Fattening and Finishing Services </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/activities-projects/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Activities and Projects</a>  </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design and Construction Services</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"415\" height=\"240\" /></a></h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Djibouti Regional Export Quarantine designed by LTS staff</p>\r\n<p id=\"Quarantine-Design-and-Construction-Services\">Jump to Quarantine Design</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art quarantine design. Livestock export quarantines are highly technical and often expensive to construct due to their size. Many factors such as water flow, wind direction and speed, soil types and previous industrial or agricultural activities, resident and nearby wildlife and livestock populations, and proximity to the port of export all play important factors in determining the suitability and the exact design of a quarantine.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n 	<li>With each new design we introduce cost-effective changes and innovations and in some cases are able to reduce the cost of a livestock export quarantine by as much as 50% using innovative and environmentally friendly construction materials.</li>\r\n 	<li>We can deliver advanced <em>state-of-the-art</em> livestock quarantines to fit most purposes anywhere in the world.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.</li>\r\n 	<li>Rejections by importing countries are highly embarrassing for the exporter and the exporting country. Additionally, they are costly mistakes both in terms of revenue and animal welfare.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our approach is and will always remain science-based.  Thus our rates of rejection will always remain far below average, avoiding trade bans and ensuring the highest possible revenue for exporters.</li>\r\n 	<li>Quarantine bio-security is critical to keeping livestock healthy, wholesome and disease free.  This requires limited access, disease-free feed, and careful purposeful management to esure that disease is kept out of the quarantine facility.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Somali Berberi (Black-headed Persian Sheep) in the Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n<h2>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our LTS proprietary Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<h2><strong><em>Stress-Free</em></strong><strong> Transportation Services </strong></h2>\r\n<strong><em>Livestock quarantines extend from the point of entry to arrival at the destination port. </em></strong>\r\n\r\nTransportation is critical to the animal welfare, quality and disease-free status of livestock. Perfectly quarantined livestock placed on a contaminated ship will arrive stressed and diseased.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Livetock-ship-CattleCarrier1-inside.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-719 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Livetock-ship-CattleCarrier1-inside-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"livetock-ship-cattlecarrier1-inside\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" /></a>\r\n\r\nProvision of quality feed, water, ventilation, protection from the elements, and appropriate space for livestock to freely move are all absolutely necessary in livestock transport.\r\n\r\nLTS maintains its staff on all livestock ships carrying animals from any of the quarantines that we manage.\r\n\r\nGround transportation has similar requirements and needs.  LTS ensures that all livestock ground transporters serving LTS-managed quarantines sign on to and strictly follow LTS transportation protocols which include feed and water stops for long-distance trips and prevent overcrowding and stressing of livestock transported by trucks or railways.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li><strong> </strong>LTS offers shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n 	<li>specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h3>Innovative feed technologies</h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Most of the livestock that we serve are young animals that were born and have spent their life on pristine organic pastures where livestock are shepherded by renown Masai, Samburu, Somali, and Orma pastoralists who carefully guide their livestock to the best grasses.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>To ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed often produced on our own farms.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally we offer services to fatten and finish livestock at other locations such as holding grounds, feedlots, and quarantines</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1 id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\"></h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-Nairobi-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-251 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-Nairobi-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"nema-slaughterhouse-nairobi-2\" width=\"221\" height=\"124\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-well-flayed-Goats.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-170\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-well-flayed-Goats-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"nema-slaughterhouse-well-flayed-goats\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight generally in service to higher-end exporters who are proud to ship quality products to their customers.</li>\r\n 	<li>We also provide full slaughterhouse management and operations services for meat processors wishing to improve their quality and provide tender, appealing meat to the marketplace.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>Livestock Feed Production &amp; Livestock Fattening and Finishing Services</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-171 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"coastal-farm-open-space-goats-dsc_0577\" width=\"431\" height=\"243\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOur Coastal Riverside Farm in Kenya provides a perfect environment for livestock feed production under irrigation and a wholesome place for livestock fattening and finishing livestock for domestic or overseas market.\r\n\r\nLivestock are kept stress-free in a natural environment and are finished on the highest quality feed available, assuring their antibiotic-free, hormone-free, and disease free status.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-Alfalfa-1.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-718 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-Alfalfa-1-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"center-pivot-irrigation-alfalfa\" width=\"439\" height=\"243\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLTS can grow a variety of high quality livestock feed for domesitc use or export.  Our feed can be certified disease-free so that it can be used in biosecure locations such as livestock quarantines and on ships.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-06 16:32:09', '2016-11-06 13:32:09', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(734, 1, '2016-11-06 16:34:16', '2016-11-06 13:34:16', '<h1><strong>Summary of LTS Services, Activities, and Projects </strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"#Quarantine-Design-and-Construction-Services\"><strong>Quarantine Design and Construction Services </strong></a></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations Services</strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong><em>End-to-End</em></strong><strong> Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations, Supervision, and Quality Assurance</strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Stress-free Transportation Services  </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement &amp; Management Services </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Livestock Feed Production, Fattening and Finishing Services </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/activities-projects/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Activities and Projects</a>  </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design and Construction Services</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"415\" height=\"240\" /></a></h1>\r\n<p id=\"Quarantine-Design-and-Construction-Services\"></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Djibouti Regional Export Quarantine designed by LTS staff</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art quarantine design. Livestock export quarantines are highly technical and often expensive to construct due to their size. Many factors such as water flow, wind direction and speed, soil types and previous industrial or agricultural activities, resident and nearby wildlife and livestock populations, and proximity to the port of export all play important factors in determining the suitability and the exact design of a quarantine.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n 	<li>With each new design we introduce cost-effective changes and innovations and in some cases are able to reduce the cost of a livestock export quarantine by as much as 50% using innovative and environmentally friendly construction materials.</li>\r\n 	<li>We can deliver advanced <em>state-of-the-art</em> livestock quarantines to fit most purposes anywhere in the world.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.</li>\r\n 	<li>Rejections by importing countries are highly embarrassing for the exporter and the exporting country. Additionally, they are costly mistakes both in terms of revenue and animal welfare.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our approach is and will always remain science-based.  Thus our rates of rejection will always remain far below average, avoiding trade bans and ensuring the highest possible revenue for exporters.</li>\r\n 	<li>Quarantine bio-security is critical to keeping livestock healthy, wholesome and disease free.  This requires limited access, disease-free feed, and careful purposeful management to esure that disease is kept out of the quarantine facility.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Somali Berberi (Black-headed Persian Sheep) in the Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n<h2>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our LTS proprietary Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<h2><strong><em>Stress-Free</em></strong><strong> Transportation Services </strong></h2>\r\n<strong><em>Livestock quarantines extend from the point of entry to arrival at the destination port. </em></strong>\r\n\r\nTransportation is critical to the animal welfare, quality and disease-free status of livestock. Perfectly quarantined livestock placed on a contaminated ship will arrive stressed and diseased.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Livetock-ship-CattleCarrier1-inside.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-719 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Livetock-ship-CattleCarrier1-inside-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"livetock-ship-cattlecarrier1-inside\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" /></a>\r\n\r\nProvision of quality feed, water, ventilation, protection from the elements, and appropriate space for livestock to freely move are all absolutely necessary in livestock transport.\r\n\r\nLTS maintains its staff on all livestock ships carrying animals from any of the quarantines that we manage.\r\n\r\nGround transportation has similar requirements and needs.  LTS ensures that all livestock ground transporters serving LTS-managed quarantines sign on to and strictly follow LTS transportation protocols which include feed and water stops for long-distance trips and prevent overcrowding and stressing of livestock transported by trucks or railways.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li><strong> </strong>LTS offers shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n 	<li>specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h3>Innovative feed technologies</h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Most of the livestock that we serve are young animals that were born and have spent their life on pristine organic pastures where livestock are shepherded by renown Masai, Samburu, Somali, and Orma pastoralists who carefully guide their livestock to the best grasses.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>To ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed often produced on our own farms.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally we offer services to fatten and finish livestock at other locations such as holding grounds, feedlots, and quarantines</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1 id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\"></h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-Nairobi-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-251 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-Nairobi-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"nema-slaughterhouse-nairobi-2\" width=\"221\" height=\"124\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-well-flayed-Goats.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-170\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-well-flayed-Goats-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"nema-slaughterhouse-well-flayed-goats\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight generally in service to higher-end exporters who are proud to ship quality products to their customers.</li>\r\n 	<li>We also provide full slaughterhouse management and operations services for meat processors wishing to improve their quality and provide tender, appealing meat to the marketplace.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>Livestock Feed Production &amp; Livestock Fattening and Finishing Services</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-171 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"coastal-farm-open-space-goats-dsc_0577\" width=\"431\" height=\"243\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOur Coastal Riverside Farm in Kenya provides a perfect environment for livestock feed production under irrigation and a wholesome place for livestock fattening and finishing livestock for domestic or overseas market.\r\n\r\nLivestock are kept stress-free in a natural environment and are finished on the highest quality feed available, assuring their antibiotic-free, hormone-free, and disease free status.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-Alfalfa-1.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-718 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-Alfalfa-1-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"center-pivot-irrigation-alfalfa\" width=\"439\" height=\"243\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLTS can grow a variety of high quality livestock feed for domesitc use or export.  Our feed can be certified disease-free so that it can be used in biosecure locations such as livestock quarantines and on ships.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-06 16:34:16', '2016-11-06 13:34:16', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(735, 1, '2016-11-06 16:35:55', '2016-11-06 13:35:55', '<h1><strong>Summary of LTS Services, Activities, and Projects </strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"#Quarantine-Design-and-Construction-Services\"><strong>Quarantine Design and Construction Services </strong></a></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations Services</strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong><em>End-to-End</em></strong><strong> Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations, Supervision, and Quality Assurance</strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Stress-free Transportation Services  </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement &amp; Management Services </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Livestock Feed Production, Fattening and Finishing Services </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/activities-projects/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Activities and Projects</a>  </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design and Construction Services</strong></h2> \r\n<p id=\"Quarantine-Design-and-Construction-Services\"></p>\r\n<h1><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"415\" height=\"240\" /></a></h1>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Djibouti Regional Export Quarantine designed by LTS staff</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art quarantine design. Livestock export quarantines are highly technical and often expensive to construct due to their size. Many factors such as water flow, wind direction and speed, soil types and previous industrial or agricultural activities, resident and nearby wildlife and livestock populations, and proximity to the port of export all play important factors in determining the suitability and the exact design of a quarantine.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n 	<li>With each new design we introduce cost-effective changes and innovations and in some cases are able to reduce the cost of a livestock export quarantine by as much as 50% using innovative and environmentally friendly construction materials.</li>\r\n 	<li>We can deliver advanced <em>state-of-the-art</em> livestock quarantines to fit most purposes anywhere in the world.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.</li>\r\n 	<li>Rejections by importing countries are highly embarrassing for the exporter and the exporting country. Additionally, they are costly mistakes both in terms of revenue and animal welfare.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our approach is and will always remain science-based.  Thus our rates of rejection will always remain far below average, avoiding trade bans and ensuring the highest possible revenue for exporters.</li>\r\n 	<li>Quarantine bio-security is critical to keeping livestock healthy, wholesome and disease free.  This requires limited access, disease-free feed, and careful purposeful management to esure that disease is kept out of the quarantine facility.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Somali Berberi (Black-headed Persian Sheep) in the Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n<h2>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our LTS proprietary Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<h2><strong><em>Stress-Free</em></strong><strong> Transportation Services </strong></h2>\r\n<strong><em>Livestock quarantines extend from the point of entry to arrival at the destination port. </em></strong>\r\n\r\nTransportation is critical to the animal welfare, quality and disease-free status of livestock. Perfectly quarantined livestock placed on a contaminated ship will arrive stressed and diseased.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Livetock-ship-CattleCarrier1-inside.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-719 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Livetock-ship-CattleCarrier1-inside-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"livetock-ship-cattlecarrier1-inside\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" /></a>\r\n\r\nProvision of quality feed, water, ventilation, protection from the elements, and appropriate space for livestock to freely move are all absolutely necessary in livestock transport.\r\n\r\nLTS maintains its staff on all livestock ships carrying animals from any of the quarantines that we manage.\r\n\r\nGround transportation has similar requirements and needs.  LTS ensures that all livestock ground transporters serving LTS-managed quarantines sign on to and strictly follow LTS transportation protocols which include feed and water stops for long-distance trips and prevent overcrowding and stressing of livestock transported by trucks or railways.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li><strong> </strong>LTS offers shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n 	<li>specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h3>Innovative feed technologies</h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Most of the livestock that we serve are young animals that were born and have spent their life on pristine organic pastures where livestock are shepherded by renown Masai, Samburu, Somali, and Orma pastoralists who carefully guide their livestock to the best grasses.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>To ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed often produced on our own farms.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally we offer services to fatten and finish livestock at other locations such as holding grounds, feedlots, and quarantines</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1 id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\"></h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-Nairobi-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-251 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-Nairobi-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"nema-slaughterhouse-nairobi-2\" width=\"221\" height=\"124\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-well-flayed-Goats.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-170\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-well-flayed-Goats-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"nema-slaughterhouse-well-flayed-goats\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight generally in service to higher-end exporters who are proud to ship quality products to their customers.</li>\r\n 	<li>We also provide full slaughterhouse management and operations services for meat processors wishing to improve their quality and provide tender, appealing meat to the marketplace.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>Livestock Feed Production &amp; Livestock Fattening and Finishing Services</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-171 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"coastal-farm-open-space-goats-dsc_0577\" width=\"431\" height=\"243\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOur Coastal Riverside Farm in Kenya provides a perfect environment for livestock feed production under irrigation and a wholesome place for livestock fattening and finishing livestock for domestic or overseas market.\r\n\r\nLivestock are kept stress-free in a natural environment and are finished on the highest quality feed available, assuring their antibiotic-free, hormone-free, and disease free status.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-Alfalfa-1.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-718 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-Alfalfa-1-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"center-pivot-irrigation-alfalfa\" width=\"439\" height=\"243\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLTS can grow a variety of high quality livestock feed for domesitc use or export.  Our feed can be certified disease-free so that it can be used in biosecure locations such as livestock quarantines and on ships.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-06 16:35:55', '2016-11-06 13:35:55', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(738, 1, '2016-11-06 16:38:07', '2016-11-06 13:38:07', '<h1><strong>Summary of LTS Services, Activities, and Projects </strong></h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"#Quarantine-Design-and-Construction-Services\"><strong>Quarantine Design and Construction Services </strong></a></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Quarantine Management and Operations Services</strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong><em>End-to-End</em></strong><strong> Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations, Supervision, and Quality Assurance</strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Stress-free Transportation Services  </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement &amp; Management Services </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>Livestock Feed Production, Fattening and Finishing Services </strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-lts/activities-projects/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Activities and Projects</a>  </strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Quarantine Design and Construction Services</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-261 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Djibouti-All-Areas-Design-Satellite-300x173.png\" alt=\"djibouti-all-areas-design-satellite\" width=\"415\" height=\"240\" /></a></h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Djibouti Regional Export Quarantine designed by LTS staff</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>State-of-the-art quarantine design. Livestock export quarantines are highly technical and often expensive to construct due to their size. Many factors such as water flow, wind direction and speed, soil types and previous industrial or agricultural activities, resident and nearby wildlife and livestock populations, and proximity to the port of export all play important factors in determining the suitability and the exact design of a quarantine.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff designed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Djibouti, Africa which has become the standard model for livestock export from the Horn of Africa region since it’s opening in 2006.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS staff have informed the design of most Somalia quarantines, one under construction in Kenya and one in Oman.</li>\r\n 	<li>With each new design we introduce cost-effective changes and innovations and in some cases are able to reduce the cost of a livestock export quarantine by as much as 50% using innovative and environmentally friendly construction materials.</li>\r\n 	<li>We can deliver advanced <em>state-of-the-art</em> livestock quarantines to fit most purposes anywhere in the world.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Quarantine Management and Operations</strong></h2>\r\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dr-Stem-at-a-Somalia-Quarantine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dr-stem-at-a-somalia-quarantine\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" /></a></strong></h1>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>LTS provides turn-key Operations and Management for livestock export quarantines, ensuring that <em>all </em>livestock pass importing country requirements inspections.</li>\r\n 	<li>Rejections by importing countries are highly embarrassing for the exporter and the exporting country. Additionally, they are costly mistakes both in terms of revenue and animal welfare.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our approach is and will always remain science-based.  Thus our rates of rejection will always remain far below average, avoiding trade bans and ensuring the highest possible revenue for exporters.</li>\r\n 	<li>Quarantine bio-security is critical to keeping livestock healthy, wholesome and disease free.  This requires limited access, disease-free feed, and careful purposeful management to esure that disease is kept out of the quarantine facility.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_258\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"447\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-258\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC_0183-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.\" width=\"447\" height=\"252\" /></a> Somali Berberi (Black-headed Persian Sheep) in the Djibouti Regional Livestock Export Processing Center designed and built by LTS staff.[/caption]\r\n<h2>Livestock &amp; Meat Traceability Systems</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our LTS proprietary Animal Passport System and Traceability Systems record all key events in the animal’s life as they relate to livestock and meat export: the results of any examinations, lab tests, vaccinations, treatments and antibiotic withholding times to ensure that the animal is not slaughtered with antibiotic residues that could endanger the human food chain.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_96\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"368\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-96\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bar-code-Sheep-Djibouti.png\" alt=\"Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.\" width=\"368\" height=\"280\" /></a> Our Animal Passport &amp; Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock &amp; meat for our importing partners.[/caption]\r\n<h2><strong><em>Stress-Free</em></strong><strong> Transportation Services </strong></h2>\r\n<strong><em>Livestock quarantines extend from the point of entry to arrival at the destination port. </em></strong>\r\n\r\nTransportation is critical to the animal welfare, quality and disease-free status of livestock. Perfectly quarantined livestock placed on a contaminated ship will arrive stressed and diseased.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Livetock-ship-CattleCarrier1-inside.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-719 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Livetock-ship-CattleCarrier1-inside-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"livetock-ship-cattlecarrier1-inside\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" /></a>\r\n\r\nProvision of quality feed, water, ventilation, protection from the elements, and appropriate space for livestock to freely move are all absolutely necessary in livestock transport.\r\n\r\nLTS maintains its staff on all livestock ships carrying animals from any of the quarantines that we manage.\r\n\r\nGround transportation has similar requirements and needs.  LTS ensures that all livestock ground transporters serving LTS-managed quarantines sign on to and strictly follow LTS transportation protocols which include feed and water stops for long-distance trips and prevent overcrowding and stressing of livestock transported by trucks or railways.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>By offering a variety of quality livestock feeds both in the quarantines and on quarantined ships, we can assure livestock wholesomeness.</li>\r\n 	<li><strong> </strong>LTS offers shipping services with our technical staff on-board ensure that the disease and antibiotic free status of our livestock is maintained.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>End-to-End Supply &amp; Processing Chain Operations </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-87\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Goats-on-a-hill-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"goats-on-a-hill\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" /></a> <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-88\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Good-Quality-Kenyan-Goat-Carcasses-meat-IMG-20160118-WA0003-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"good-quality-kenyan-goat-carcasses-meat-img-20160118-wa0003\" width=\"124\" height=\"220\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A quality product, be livestock or meat comes from intimate knowledge of the entire supply and processing chain.</li>\r\n 	<li>LTS carefully manages its supply of livestock to ensure that they are consistent in quality and are sourced from areas free of livestock diseases important to trade.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our goal is to ensure that the importer and client specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n 	<li>specifications for livestock and meat are met or exceeded. Only through end-to-end supply chain management can we assure this.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Fattening &amp; Finishing Livestock </strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-91 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Well-finished-goat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"well-finished-goat\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screenshot-2016-09-17-14.49.05-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2016-09-17-14-49-05\" width=\"358\" height=\"240\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed.\r\n<h3>Innovative feed technologies</h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_90\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"283\"]<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-90\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Hydroponic-Barley-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo taken at Hydroponics Kenya\" width=\"283\" height=\"503\" /></a> Hydroponically grown barley can provide rapid nutrient access to finish livestock for market. Photo was taken at Hydroponics Kenya Ltd.[/caption]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Most of the livestock that we serve are young animals that were born and have spent their life on pristine organic pastures where livestock are shepherded by renown Masai, Samburu, Somali, and Orma pastoralists who carefully guide their livestock to the best grasses.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>To ensure that client specifications are met, we fatten and finish our livestock with quality feed often produced on our own farms.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We use a number of approaches to our fattening and finishing, from the traditional quality pasture and grain feeding to hydroponics and newer innovative feeding practices.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Additionally we offer services to fatten and finish livestock at other locations such as holding grounds, feedlots, and quarantines</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1 id=\"KenyaCoastalRiversideFarm\"></h1>\r\n<h2><strong>Slaughterhouse Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement &amp; Management Services</strong></h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-Nairobi-2.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-251 alignleft\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-Nairobi-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"nema-slaughterhouse-nairobi-2\" width=\"221\" height=\"124\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-well-flayed-Goats.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-170\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nema-Slaughterhouse-well-flayed-Goats-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"nema-slaughterhouse-well-flayed-goats\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>We provide input into all aspects of slaughterhouse operations and onward shipment ensuring that the meat is hygienic and wholesome.</li>\r\n 	<li>Our Services range from Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement training and oversight generally in service to higher-end exporters who are proud to ship quality products to their customers.</li>\r\n 	<li>We also provide full slaughterhouse management and operations services for meat processors wishing to improve their quality and provide tender, appealing meat to the marketplace.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2>Livestock Feed Production &amp; Livestock Fattening and Finishing Services</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-171 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coastal-farm-open-space-goats-DSC_0577-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"coastal-farm-open-space-goats-dsc_0577\" width=\"431\" height=\"243\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOur Coastal Riverside Farm in Kenya provides a perfect environment for livestock feed production under irrigation and a wholesome place for livestock fattening and finishing livestock for domestic or overseas market.\r\n\r\nLivestock are kept stress-free in a natural environment and are finished on the highest quality feed available, assuring their antibiotic-free, hormone-free, and disease free status.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-Alfalfa-1.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-718 aligncenter\" src=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Center-Pivot-Irrigation-Alfalfa-1-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"center-pivot-irrigation-alfalfa\" width=\"439\" height=\"243\" /></a>\r\n\r\nLTS can grow a variety of high quality livestock feed for domesitc use or export.  Our feed can be certified disease-free so that it can be used in biosecure locations such as livestock quarantines and on ships.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/\">Go to top</a>              <a href=\"http://localhost:8888/disk/about-us/contact-lts/\">Contact Us</a></p>', 'Serving the Livestock & Meat Global Trade Industries', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '201-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-06 16:38:07', '2016-11-06 13:38:07', '', 201, 'http://localhost:8888/disk/201-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
