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 means improved 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
Complements the high nutrient value of high-quality green, growing 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.
Northern United States: April or May
Southern United States: February or March
Central United States: March or April
Right Now® Bronze
Right Now® Bronze mineral supplement: Because the grass is dormant, right now
High nutrient density to supplement mature, dormant pastures.
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.
Northern United States: August or September
Southern United States: June or July
Central United States: July or August
Right Now® Gold
Right Now® Gold Magnum mineral supplement: Because the grass has risks, too
High magnesium formula to help prevent 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 Magnum formula contains magnesium and calcium to help combat grass tetany and updated trace minerals to support improved reproduction and breeding rates.
Southern United States: November to March
Central United States: December or April
Right Now® Onyx
Right Now® Onyx Progeny mineral supplement: Because some cattle have more needs
Organic trace minerals to increase availability in calving, breeding and stressful situations.
Stressed calves, cow in AI 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 Progeny formula helps meet these needs with ZinPro Availa 4 organic zinc, manganese, copper, and cobalt, that are more readily absorbed into the bloodstream. Diamond V Yeast and selenium yeast are added to support improved milk production.
Cut losses with All-Weather® Technology
With weatherized mineral, you can better manage intake and cut losses
Cargill’s innovative 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 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 All-Weather® Technology is worth $120 to $180 per ton of mineral product fed due to direct costs from mineral loss. 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 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.