Expert Advice
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Performance And Profitability With The Nurture Program
Cargill's Nurture program is designed to be flexible and fit to the specifications of your business.
Unique forage challenges
Crystal Prom, a Cargill Dairy Focused Consultant in southern Wisconsin, shares how she helps her customers manage their forage inventories throughout the year. She shares best practices and industry technologies for finding solutions that fit her customer’s needs.
Mycotoxins in Feed; Now What?
Sampling and analysis give you your best defense against mycotoxins: knowledge. With that in hand, you can make a plan to mitigate risks to your herd.
Remain steady when sampling for mycotoxins
It’s hard to pinpoint the risk of mycotoxins if sampling procedures are inadequate. Two Cargill Animal Nutrition swine nutritionists offer tips for assessing risks and formulating rations based on the more than 60,000 samples analyzed each year at the company’s central laboratory in Elk River, MN.
Considerations for Feeding Dairy Cross Calves
The number of dairy origin beef animals in the United States is on the rise. Together, the Cargill dairy and beef nutrition teams, are collaborating to solve the challenges associated with feeding dairy origin beef animals through our UpGrade Dairy x Beef Approach.
Realities of Dairy Cross Cattle in the Feedlot
Dairy origin beef animals are important to the beef supply chain, but they may bring challenges to feeders and cattle buyers. It is key to understand and seek opportunities to reduce the impact these challenges have on your dairy origin beef animals. The UpGrade Dairy x Beef Approach offers well-rounded nutrition to help maximize profit on dairy origin animals and encourage consistent performance from 400 pounds to finish.
Don’t overlook water quality
Water is the most important nutrient pigs receive, so producers need to ensure the water in their barns is good quality, properly delivered, and available to all pigs. Listen to what two Cargill production experts have to say about taking water samples and alleviating issues.
Can your barns handle winter weather?
Cold winter weather brings the challenge of keeping livestock safe, warm and comfortable. Two Cargill production support specialists provide valuable tips for making sure you’ve covered all the bases in terms of winterizing your barns.
Manage E. coli in the nursery
The bacterial disease caused by pathogenic Escherichia coli (E. coli) has made a resurgence in US nurseries. Three swine nutritionists discuss E. coli and some of the strategies producers can use to manage the infection.
Formulate a dynamic and profitable nutrition plan
Following a proper nutrition plan includes forage testing your grass and hay and understanding if you’re underfeeding or overfeeding your cows. Learn more in this article by Dusty Abney.
Change traditional practices for continuous improvement
Dusty Abney, Beef Technical Specialist for Cargill Animal Nutrition, challenges cow-calf producers to go beyond the status quo, particularly when it comes to cow nutrition. He gives five important factors cattlemen should keep in mind.
Are you listening to your data?
Data insights allow producers to make more informed business and management decisions, and much of the data is already being collected. Dusty Abney, Beef Technical Specialist / Cargill Animal Nutrition gives his recommendations on data collection and usage for producers.