Right Now® Minerals
Right Now® minerals are formulated to allow you to match the mineral feeding program to the growing seasons, forage conditions and nutritional needs of your cattle. This program supports healthy weaning rates, heavier calves, and reduced feed costs.
Each color-coded product is a special formula, because beef cow nutrition is not a black-and-white issue. The four formulas meet the ever-changing health and breeding requirements of specific herds. We even balance our macro and trace minerals by region to supplement available forage at different times of the year. And with our color-coding, a quick glance in your mineral feeder tells you if you’re feeding the right formula.
Ask your Cargill® Animal Nutrition consultant how Right Now® Mineral can help. You’ll get answers that go far beyond black and white. Select a product name to learn more:
Right Now® Emerald
Right Now® Emerald mineral supplement: Because the grass is growing, right now
Compliments the nutrient value of high-quality, green, growing grass and forage.
During calving and breeding season, nutrient requirements of the cow are much higher. High quality lush, early-growth pasture contains more readily available mineral nutrients and requires a focused mineral supplement. By including only those minerals likely to be deficient in your forage, the Emerald formula delivers a cost-effective solution.
Approximate Seasonality:
Southern United States: February to November
Central United States: March to October
South Eastern United States: March to November
Northern United States: April to October
Western United States: April to October
Right Now® Bronze
Right Now® Bronze mineral supplement: Because the grass is dormant, right now
High nutrient density to supplement mature, dormant pastures and forages.
Levels of phosphorus, copper, and most other minerals decrease in forage as it matures. Forage intake parallels this decline. The high nutrient density of the Bronze formula provides the right fortification during late lactation and the dry period. Excellent mineral nutrition before calving helps improve immune status and health of both cows and calves.
Approximate Seasonality:
Central United States: November to February
Northern United States: November to March
Western United States: November to March
Southern United States: December to January
Right Now® Gold
Right Now® Gold mineral supplement: Because the grass has risks, too
Unique formula for when fast-growing grass or green forage is lacking in magnesium, or during periods of time for risk of grass tetany.
Magnesium deficiency-and the grass tetany that can result-are dangers for lactating cows grazing lush pasture, cattle on wheat, oat, or ryegrass pasture, or any herds exposed to forage heavily fertilized with nitrogen. The Gold formula contains magnesium and calcium to help combat grass tetany and updated trace minerals to support healthy reproduction and breeding rates.
Approximate Seasonality:
Central United States: March to May
Northern United States: March to May
Western United States: March to May
Southern United States: November to March
South Eastern United States: November to April
Right Now® Onyx
Right Now® Onyx Progeny mineral supplement: Because some cattle have more needs
Organic trace minerals and other nutrients to increase availability in challenging breeding and reproductive situations.
Stressed calves, cows in A.I. and embryo transfer programs, developing replacements and first-calf heifers, high-value cattle, or any animals suffering mineral deficiencies that result from antagonisms may have special supplementation needs. The Onyx formula helps meet these needs with organic zinc, manganese, copper, and cobalt, that are more readily absorbed into the bloodstream. Diamond V Yeast and selenium yeast are added to support healthy milk production.
Cut losses with Superior All-Weather® Technology
With weatherized mineral, you can better manage intake and cut losses
Cargill’s innovative Superior All-Weather® Technology in our mineral formulas keeps mineral from clumping due to rain and humidity and prevents wind from blowing the mineral out of the feeder.
Cattle cannot get the full benefit of minerals when moisture from rain and humidity causes those minerals to clump or wind blows them out of the feeder. Cargill’s innovative Superior All-Weather® Technology in mineral formulas like Right Now® Mineral helps make sure that more of the mineral is available to beef cattle.
With weatherized mineral, costs from mineral loss and decreased productivity are reduced and intake is measured and managed more accurately. You can be sure that the mineral fed to your cattle actually does its job.
Reduces costs
Compared to non-weatherized mineral products, using a Right Now® Mineral product formulated with Superior All-Weather® Technology is worth $120 to $180 per ton of mineral product fed due to direct costs from mineral loss. Superior All-Weather® Technology also can help reduce indirect costs from losses in cattle productivity due to insufficient mineral consumption.
Better manage mineral intake
Most often, mineral intake is measured and managed through determining the amount of mineral that remains in the feeder, and lost mineral is often mistaken for intake. By using one of the Right Now® Mineral products containing Superior All-Weather® Technology, more mineral remains in the feeder and available to your cattle. This gives you a more accurate residual measurement for improved intake management. You can be sure that the mineral you feed actually goes into your cattle.
Mineral Feed FAQs
Advice on how to use mineral feeds.
Want to learn more about Right Now® Mineral? Contact your local dealer or give us a call at 1-844-889-7712.