With many farm businesses under immense pressure right now, never before has a focus on marginal gains been more relevant.
Making incremental improvements can have a significant impact on a farm's bottom line and, for dairy and beef producers, that includes ensuring that every animal, from newborn calves to the oldest cow in the herd, is correctly covered for its trace mineral requirements.
For instance, boosting trace minerals before breeding can help to increase fertility, for better reception to AI, for a tighter calving pattern and a general boost for the needs of the dam during pregnancy. All of this helps the animal be more resilient to stress, which in turn reduces disease and increase performance,, says Sabrina Jordan, Farm Product Manager at Virbac.
"Íæż½ã½ã are facing lots of different costs from all angles, changes to subsidies, the animal welfare pathway, all sorts of things,'' she says.
"Trace mineral supplementation is a way of increasing marginal gains and saving costs in the long run because there are several areas where giving the extra trace minerals at certain times of the production year actually does help toboost the health of cattle. ."
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