Healthy Herd

By: Mark Moore

For livestock operations, time is money. Each additional minute working with an animal, whether it’s checking vaccination or antibiotic treatments, reviewing withdrawal protocols, or balancing feed rations, can eat into the bottom line.

When Gage Zellmer incorporated Performance Beef into his Atlantic, Iowa, operation, he was looking for a way to improve efficiency for the 5,000 head at A to Z Feeders. The system worked like a charm. He started with the feeding system developed by Performance Livestock Analytics and recently added the animal health component.