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Beef Cattle, Features

Using TMR mixers on a beef operation

TMR mixers are becoming a bigger conversation in the beef industry in recent years

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Although total mixed ration (TMR) mixers have been popular on dairy operations historically, they are becoming more common on beef operations, as well. TMR mixers are used primarily for ruminant animals. For both dairy and beef, there are benefits and challenges to implementing a TMR mixer into an operation. TMR mixer 101 TMR mixers usually […] Read more
Penta TMR mixer at Ag in Motion 2024
Machinery

VIDEO: Vertical feed mixers gaining ground with beef producers

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“There’s really nothing that a vertical feed mixer will say ‘no’ to,” says Glenn Buurma, president of Penta. Buurma notes that while traditionally vertical feed mixers saw most of their attention among dairy producers, he’s seeing beef producers increasingly add them into their operations as well. “There’s nothing that’s going to have a quicker payback […] Read more
Les Halliday finds cull potatoes to be highly palatable to cattle. Like any feed, they need to be introduced slowly. To avoid choking hazards, they should be chopped or ensiled before feeding.
Features, Livestock

Making food waste work in your feeding program

There are several benefits and challenges to weigh when introducing food waste as a feed source

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When customers visit Mike Buis’ on-farm retail store to purchase beef, they often ask what unusual product he’s feeding his cows that day. “It keeps it interesting,” says Buis, who farms at Chatham, Ont., and feeds cull vegetables and processing byproducts to his herd. “They need to almost drive directly by the feed bunk to […] Read more
Young steers and heifers enjoy bakery items from Save-On-Foods.
Features, Livestock

Turning food waste into livestock feed

Jill Burkhardt shares her experience with a program that allows farmers to recycle grocery store shrink

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Doughnuts, broccoli, pineapples, bread, cakes and cookies — sounds like some things you’d eat during the week? Well, it’s what our feeder cattle eat. Yes, you read that right, our feeders eat doughnuts, fruits, vegetables and cakes. How? It’s all thanks to a program called Loop and a local grocery store chain, Save-On-Foods. Loop started […] Read more
Three mixers at the Ag in Motion field demonstrations in 2018, north of Saskatoon, Sask.
Features, Livestock

Matching a TMR machine to a livestock operation

When choosing a machine, start with the feed type going into the ration, then look at the features

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Total mixed ration (TMR) mixers have become a fixture on feedlots, dairies and mixed farms. They are the “must have” machines to process, mix and deliver multiple variations of feed to the livestock industry. These heavy-duty blenders have improved feeding efficiency and provide exacting energy requirements without sacrificing the physical characteristics needed for proper rumen […] Read more
Schuler’s MS550 multi-screw vertical mixer has a mixing capacity of 550 cubic feet. (SchulerMfg.net)
Crops, Forages, Machinery

Vermeer buys TMR mixer maker Schuler

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U.S. hay and forage equipment manufacturer Vermeer Corp. is expanding its reach in the cattle feeding business with a deal for fellow Iowa firm Schuler Manufacturing. Vermeer announced Wednesday it purchased Schuler for an undisclosed sum and that Schuler products will still “initially” be sold under the Schuler brand, but with an “intentional transition” to […] Read more

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