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Nutrition
Beef Northwest's availability of
locally grown feedstuffs and
by-products provides the
opportunity to design
competitive, high quality
rations. With careful
attention toquality control and
the use of inexpensive potato
by-products from nearby
potato processing plants, we
produce "best cost" rations.
Computerized bunk
management systems enable
feed managers at each yard
to efficiently and accurately
call feed to every pen of cattle,
assuring each pen is fed within
a 10-minute window on each of
the three feedings per day.
To guarantee quality control,
rations are cooked three times
per day and each ingredient is
cooked once per day to
determine the actual dry-
matter content. Ingredients
and mixed rations are regularly
sent to an independent
laboratory for full nutritional
analysis. We don't guess at
nutrition by using theoretical
numbers.
Dr. Abe Turgeon of Koers-
Turgeon Consulting has been
guiding the nutrition programs
at Beef Northwest since 1995.
Dr. Turgeon is well known as
one of the top feedyard
nutritionists in the industry
and is one of the few
specialists that have knowledge
specific to feeding potato by-
products to cattle. He works
with the management, feeding
and milling crews at each yard
to ensure that the procedures
and human side of the feeding
programs have the same quality
control and high performance
as the rations.
All these factors help produce a
high quality carcass and a cost
of gain competitive with
feeders anywhere in the
country.
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