Our formulation tools are proven to help keep animals healthy and productive while producing fresh, wholesome milk.

The global stretch of our research facilities gives you access to some of the best information available on animal nutrition and performance. By focusing on nutrients rather than ingredients, our scientists and technicians can bring the latest nutrition science and research to your operation. Our robust, integrated systems can give you flexibility in creating diet formulas that help contain costs, maximize production and manage market volatility of ingredients.

REVEAL®:  Measuring forages in real time

Milk producers have to respond quickly to market volatility and ingredient availability. The REVEAL® system is a timely, very precise nutrient measurement tool for forages that offers producers the ability to make better ingredient decisions.

The REVEAL® system utilizes near-infrared spectrum technology paired with Internet access to the global Cargill system. We do our own laboratory testing at our worldwide research centers, which gives us consistent and accurate results and gives you extensive resources from dairy experts around the world. With an effective and efficient way to measure, manage and communicate nutrients in real time, you can take action and realize value quickly.

OVSdb™:  Understand nutrient variation within and across suppliers

The Optimum Value Supplier Database™ (OVSdb™) system is our proprietary database that captures and records the nutrient content of feed ingredients. It leverages the capabilities of our worldwide network of laboratories to provide you with powerful knowledge to help make formulation decisions based on nutrient profiles rather than ingredients.

By capturing and recording nutrient content, we can know the changes of the nutrient profiles over time, the variation between suppliers, and the consistency of nutrient supplies from individual suppliers. You can source the best cost feed ingredients without sacrificing nutritional value.

AutoCalc®:  The best performance for the best cost

Cargill’s AutoCalc® system is a real-time nutrition analysis that measures feed ingredients against their nutrient content. It is a simple and dynamic way to adjust feed ingredients to help ensure that feed formulas are accurate and supply the best performance for the best cost.

The AutoCalc® system uses key nutrition and animal digestibility data supplied by our scientists in our nutrition research labs around the world. Cargill makes a significant investment in time and resources to ensure that the nutrient database is current for more than 100 nutrients, including available amino acid, energy and phosphorus. In addition, particle size analysis is conducted to determine the best grind size for grains to help achieve the most nutrient absorption.

MAX®:  Integrating nutrition and business

Cargill’s DairyMAX® system leverages our expertise in animal nutrition science and our disciplined business approach. By connecting the physical form of the feed ingredients, feed processing systems, nutrient profiles, animal performance and on-farm management practices, you get a more accurate and consistent diet for your stock while helping to control costs and manage your business.

The DairyMAX® system works by building a virtual model of your operation, putting animal requirements and nutrient supply in your context. With the MAX® system, you get a diet formulation specially tailored to your operation that continually adjusts and adapts to factors such as intake and environment.

The MAX® system can help identify the limiting factors to performance in your operation and look at opportunities from many different angles, deriving clear solutions from complex questions in greater detail and in real time.

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