Beef

2014 Range Mineral Beef Promotion Sales Recognition! 

Beginning January 15, 2014 (and every two weeks through March 31) watch for bi-monthly announcements and Range Mineral Beef Promotion sales recognition for the beef mineral promotion which began December 1, 2013!

Click here for recognition thru March 15, including Top 10 Winners in Range Mineral Commitments! (see Page 4)

AMPT™    

Many who are reading this are already familiar with our new mineral, AMPT, which will soon be introduced. If you are not, I'd like to take some space here and give a brief overview. AMPT, which is an acronym for Advanced Mineral Performance Technology,  is a very exciting new beef mineral product which, as the name suggests, capitalizes on some new and exciting technology. While I don't have the space here to give a full description, rest assured you will be hearing and seeing much more about AMPT.

We have been working on this product for almost a year, seeking input from sales team members, developing the formulations, the name, and marketing material. A final barrier was recently passed in getting the logo cleared and moving forward with trademarking the AMPT name and logo. We are now getting ready to share more information on the product and are currently getting bags printed in time for production in the next couple of months.

AMPT has been being tested in several markets to get consumption and producer responses. So far, we have sold nearly 100 tons and responses have been coming back very positive. AMPT is currently being made in Abilene (KS) and Comanche (TX) with plans to manufacture in Quincy (IL) as well. These will be the three plants to produce AMPT, until the market dictates evaluating other production facilities.

A soft launch of AMPT is scheduled this summer and then a national launch is planned at the 2014 National Angus Convention and Trade Show in Kansas City in early November, and continuing at the National Cattlemen's Beef Assoc. Convention in San Antonio in February 2015.

We are very excited about this new mineral line and look forward to informing and training as many people as possible on this new and impressive line of range minerals. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Jeff Hill, Chris Hagedorn, Dan Knoll, or Kent Egbert, for more information.

It's IGR Time!

Be ready with IGR for horn fly season! Use the new IGR brochure featuring Dipteracide™ ADM Methoprene (IGR). 

IGR Flyer 

Can AminoGain Still Give a ROI with Lower Corn Prices?

by Dr. Gerald Walker, product/technical manager, AminoGain

One common question today about using AminoGain (AG) is, "With the price of corn moving lower in the $4 range, can it still pay to use AminoGain?" When AminoGain was first introduced, the price of corn was around $3.50/bu. Before corn increased to the $7/bu range, it paid to feed AG then! At that time, the price of corn was very similar to where it is today. The price of corn, for the most part, does not change the ROI from feeding AminoGain. Click the link below for Dr. Walker's entire article.

Can AminoGain Still Give a ROI with Lower Corn Prices?

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I'd like to extend a personal congratulations to each of our Top Ten Pork Club Members for 2013!

1. They listen to their customers. They find out what their customer's individual needs are to be successful.
2. They provide excellent service. They understand the changes occurring in their marketplace.
3. They are great consultants, whether talking feed, health, animal flow or finances.
4. They are always the first to share with their customers ADM Alliance Nutrition's best technologies and they are early adapters.

In general, they bring added value to the customers with which they work, just as all of our sales professionals are required to do on a day-to-day basis to be successful.

We have some great new technologies to help everyone service the swine opportunities in your area, such as the MotivAte^TM Starter Program. We have some existing technologies that continue to grow market share, such as Easyzyme^TM and CitriStim^®. Finally, over the next several months, our Swine Team is working diligently to share our newest technologies in the grow/finish and breeding herd area as we move forward.

Thanks to all for everything you do for the ADM Swine Group and once again, congratulations to our Top Ten Club!

Sweet Unique 18% Calf Starter, Sweet Unique 20% Calf Starter and Sweet Unique 16% Calf Grower are now available in many areas. Now is a great time to take a look at some of the key resource materials we have available for this new line of products. Product pages for all three of these products are now available. A Sweet Unique Rack Card for calf feeds is also available, and can be ordered from Business Services. A new bag has been designed for these products, and should be available soon. Sweet Unique research trials are approaching completion. To date, the results have looked very impressive, and will be available in the near future.

Forage Inoculants

It won't be long before it is time to start harvesting spring forages. Inoculants play a vital role in all good forage programs. Research from leading universities has shown the following benefits when using a good quality inoculant on fermented forages: Increased dry matter recovery, improved fermentation profiles, improved bunk stability and increased milk production. ADM Alliance Nutrition offers a number of excellent inoculant products. Refer to Super Sile, Pro-Silage Builder^®, Pro-Silage Stabilizer^TM, and ECOSYL^®*. Silo-Guard II^®** is another preservative you may want to consider.

Additional Forage/Silage Information on Portal--Click Here!

*A trademark of ECOSYL Products LTD.

**A trademark of the International Stock Food Corporation.

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Equine

Click on the links below for new and updated Equine information.

Loomix^®          

by Lisa Brown 

Show Feeds

by Laura Meyer 

• Learn more about the NEWEST MoorMan's^® ShowTec^® products...
• MoorMan's ShowTec Showts™
• Showts Product Page
• Showts ad and other marketing materials coming soon.
• MoorMan's ShowTec MoorFlex™
• 13 lb pail now available in addition to 3.75 lb bag
• Contact Loomix direct at 877-788-4448 for more information or to place an order.
• MoorMan's ShowTec Shazam™
• Shazam Ad
• Shazam Product Page
• Shazam Banner
• Shazam Testimonials
• MoorMan's ShowTec Time Out™
• Time Out Ad
• Time Out Product Page
• Time Out Banner
• Shazam and Time Out POP Display Poster (2-sided) -- to place orders email Laura Meyer.
• MoorMan's ShowTec Fire Extinguisher™ floor stocked now through October
• ShowTec Marketing Order Form
• Great article on PED Virus
• Swine Biosecurity Signs available in Business Services at no cost (email Business Services with your desired quantity)
• 2014 Livestock Youth Award Application has been updated on the Show Feeds Website (Youth Awards Program) and on this Show Feed Portal page (Livestock Youth Award).
• ShowTec Ads
• ShowTec Champions
• Social Media Update: Like MoorMan's ShowTec on Facebook and follow us on Instagram (photo feed @MoorMansShowTec), and Twitter (@MoorMansShowTec). Make sure to tag your pictures with #MoorMans & #ShowTec.

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Specialty Ingredients

by Kim Boccardi 

Thermal Care™ R Coldsprings Farms Spotlight

Thermal Care R (dairy) Coldsprings Farms Spotlight 09-13

Matt and Debbie Hoff own and operate Coldsprings Farms near New Windsor, MD. The origin of their Carroll County family farm can be traced back to 1869. Matt and his wife took ownership of the farm in 2005. Today, Coldsprings Farms, one of the largest dairies in the state of Maryland, consists of 980 registered Holstein cows. Additionally, they farm around 2200 acres. [more]

In the spring of 2013, the Hoff's completed construction of a new barn to house some of their milk cows. At the start of the summer, fan installation in the new barn had not been completed. In June, with summer heat looming, Matt decided to include Thermal Care R in one of his lactation groups to help cows deal with upcoming heat stress. In conjunction with ADM Alliance Nutrition, a field demonstration was set up, whereby one of the groups in the new barn was fed Thermal Care. A second group served as a control with no Thermal Care. [more]

CLICK HERE to read the full testimonial spotlight and learn how the Hoff family's Holstein cows performed on Thermal Care R.

Visit the Specialty Ingredients Portal page for more information or contact a member of the Specialty Ingredients product management team with any questions:

• Chad Howser, Product Manager
• IGR/Dipteracide™, biuret, Chloratet™, Nova-E™ Natural-Source Vitamin E & Enertia^®
• Peter Bergstrom, Product Manager
• CitriStim^®, Extracts (RumeNext^®/Thermal Care™/Endo-Fighter^®) & BIOMIN* products
• Kim Boccardi, Marketing & Product Manager
• PremiDex™ & Energy Burst™
• Joel Wenninghoff, Product Manager & Commercial Swine Business Manager
• Easyzyme^®+

*A trademark of ERBER AG Austria.

Wildlife and Game Bird

by Jim Sours 

Reference Resources

Three excellent resources have recently been added to the Specialty section on the Portal under the Presentations, Educational tab. At your convenience you may review the following:

• Doe & Fawn Nutrition -- Impact on Profitability
• Doe & Fawn Nutrition SW -- Impact on Profitability
• Elk Feeding & Nutrition -- Impact on Profitability

Advertising/Customer Awareness 

To support and promote the most complete nutritional fawn/calf starter in the commercial wildlife industry, TraceMaxFawn Starter, 81482AAA, a full-page ad will appear in the spring issue of the North American Deer Farmer magazine. You may find this ad posted on the Specialty page on the Portal under Advertising.

To recognize the measurable and positive difference of Thermal Care™, a half-page ad will appear in the May issue of The North American Elk Breeders Journal. This ad is also posted on the Specialty page on the Portal under Advertising.

New Deer & Elk Feeds

Check the Portal for the product pages for six, new performance-oriented deer and elk feeds. After a thorough review of current core and custom deer feeds, these new core products will meet or exceed the nutrition expectations for commercial wildlife operators. Whole herd nutrition, not just antler production, is the focus for producers of bigger bodied and healthier animals in this ever-increasing competitive industry. Here are some of the product benefits that meet the "new normal" nutrition requirements that top-performing commercial wildlife producers are seeking.

• Multiple protein sources and balanced amino acid profile
• Direct-fed microbials
• Increased fat level from stabilized rice bran and grain sources
• CitriStim^®
• Increased calcium/phosphorus ratio
• NSE and increased vitamin E level
• Increased vitamin D level
• Garlic and Thermal Care options

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