Managing Nutrients Successfully

Managing Nutrients Successfully

Feed can easily represent up to 50% of your total cost of producing milk or raising heifers. Your animals produce milk from the amino acids, digestible NDF, starch, sugar, fat and minerals that come from their diet. It’s those nutrients – and their availability and digestibility – that make the difference in both your production and profitability.

Cargill Animal Nutrition consultants make it their business to stay abreast of the latest research and information. Our systems incorporate this knowledge to ensure you have the information necessary for making rapid changes. We can offer you advice to help you make timely decisions, and deliver customized solutions for the challenges you face in your operations.

Nutrient Analysis System

With our Nutrient Analysis System, you can begin managing this critical part of your operation. This all begins with our worldwide laboratory analysis system. If you’re already using or considering Cargill formulated diets, our nutrient profiles of your ration components will deliver these key benefits:

Consistent and accurate results – Using one analysis system means our consultants are speaking the same nutrient language no matter where you live. Over time, you build a useable history of your on-farm nutrient sources.

Nutrition models in sync with lab results – Cargill Animal Nutrition developed the MAX™ ration formulation system in concert with our laboratory methods.

Improved nutrient models – The Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Center is our continuous nutrition research center. Models developed there are synchronized with laboratory procedures. Ultimately, the insights from this methodology lead to improved productivity and consistency from your animals.

Nutrient Supply System

In order to manage the supply of nutrients, you must understand their quality and how they vary within your ingredients. With our Optimum Value Supplier Database™ we can source the best cost feed ingredients without sacrificing high nutritional value. To ensure nutrients are supplied in a form that animals can readily digest, we measure individual physical characteristics with Ingredient Evaluation Tools. We translate that evaluation into a nutritional analysis you can use with our AutoCalc™ system. The MAX™ system offers you distinct advantages because it links to analysis results, ingredient information, and the latest research.