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.