Dairy
Why Seasonal-Regional?
Why Custom?
A proactive nutrition program is vital to ensuring a successful dairy operation. Feed what you need.
The fundamental cornerstone of dairy nutrition is forage, more specifically forage quality. Higher forage quality directly relates to more availability of all nutrients, resulting in less supplementation. By analyzing forages and the strategic use of commodities you can lower your mineral costs throughout the year.
Custom formulated minerals can target specific supplementation to specific stages of lactation. These include but are not limited to: heifers, dry cows, close-up dry cows, fresh cows, and early-to-late lactating cows. Custom formulated minerals can also improve rumen health and milk components.
Using custom formulation allows for fresh cow minerals to compliment the close-up dry cow program and improve transition cow performance. Since fresh cow performance can influence the entire lactation, specialized mineral formulations for close-up and fresh cows have the highest potential for an excellent return on dollars invested.
Custom formulating minerals can also aid in reducing the nutrient loading on your farm ground. This area of concern will become more important as animal units per dairy increase and environmental concerns become more publicized.
Why Wilbur-Ellis?
Value Based Decision are Our Focus
In business, your purchased input decisions need to be based on highest value per dollar spent. Your cow herd, equipment, facilities, genetics, herd health, and nutrition programs all have a direct effect on your bottom line. At Wilbur-Ellis our focus is to bring producers the highest value. We will not sacrifice long-term benefits for short-term gains. This means acting with integrity and focusing on adding value to you and your animals. We know the decisions made today will have an impact for years to come. Our number one priority will always be the health of the animal.
Superior Customer Service
At Wilbur-Ellis customer service is a commitment. We track custom bid formulations from the time they are first received until the product is delivered. Our goal is to provide you with the highest quality product delivered to you on time and every time. Your Wilbur- Ellis representative can provide on-farm assistance with the best management practices and industry knowledge to help you manage your business.
What Quality Products Mean to Us
It doesn't matter how good your manufacturing processes are if you are working with bad ingredients – the outcome will be inferior. That's why at Wilbur-Ellis we start our quality program with our raw ingredient suppliers. Each supplier and each ingredient must go through a series of approvals where we check for process controls, documented Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), traceability capabilities, any past regulatory violations, product safety, and nutritional value. We do not hesitate to turn away materials that do not meet our quality standards.
Even the carriers that transport ingredients to our facilities must pass an approval process. We check for washout records to safeguard against the possibility of contamination, verify that the ingredients are protected during transit, and that the trailer doors are properly sealed.
Once ingredients reach our facility, samples are taken and retained with our receiving records for complete traceability. At the production facility procedures are in place to ensure the highest quality in our manufacturing practices. Internal audits are randomly conducted to verify compliance with these SOPs, and all outbound loads are again sampled before being sent to the customer to ensure that you get exactly what you ordered.
Custom Minerals
Backed by over 80 years of experience, with strategically located offices and manufacturing facilities, the Wilbur-Ellis Animal Feed Division is one of the world's largest suppliers to the feed industry.
Serving the Western U.S. livestock industry, our Animal Nutrition Segment specializes in the custom blending and formulation of vitamin/mineral premixes, base mixes, supplements and other specialty products for the animal feed industry. Customers receive quality products, expert advice and detailed customized service. We invite you to consider Wilbur-Ellis Animal Nutrition for customized solutions to your mineral needs.
- Reduce feed cost
- Improve rumen health and milk components
- Target only those ingredients you need, leading to a better return on your investment
- Improve cow health including:
- Improve reproduction
- Improve hoof health
- Improve immune function
- Improve transition cow success
- Lower nutrient loading on farm ground
Let Wilbur-Ellis Animal Nutrition work with you or your nutritional consultant to build a feeding program tailored to your needs today!
To find out more about what Wilbur-Ellis Animal Nutrition can do for you, please contact us.
