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12/26/2024

02/04/2024

As Phil the Groundhog is forecasting an early Spring, now is the time to start thinking about your Spring Mineral program. Contact us to discuss Beef or Dairy Hi-Mag, Medicated, or Standard Mineral! 🐄🐂

06/27/2023

Ruminants are amazing creatures, but what does being a ruminant mean? Ruminants are ungulates (2-toed) animals that chew a regurgitated cud. In order to chew their cud, they must have a specific type of stomach -- a rumen. Our domesticated ruminants have 1 stomach with 4 awesome compartments.
1. Rumen - The 1st chamber is the biggest and can be bigger than 30 gallons in a mature cow! The rumen has a "shaggy" carpet feel/look with papillae that flow back and forth (think seaweed moving in the ocean). The rumen is filled with "bugs" and has its own ecosystem of bacteria and yeast to break down forages.
2. Reticulum -- This 2nd chamber is a smaller outcropping of the rumen and has "cups" like a honeycomb pattern to catch the food for digestion.
3. Omasum - The 3rd part is a tight basketball shaped compartment in adult cattle with many "pages" of a book. The food weaves back and forth, absorbing water and drying out the ingesta.
4. Abomasum - The 4th compartment is like our human stomach. The ingesta is rehydrated with acid for the final digestion before the intestines.
Check out what they look like!

01/30/2023

Happy Kansas Day! 🌻

01/25/2023

We’ve been busy this week shipping to 7+ states! Give us a call to get your bunk cleaner!

01/21/2023

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11/05/2022

There’s no mis-steakin’, this gives a great visual.

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07/02/2022

04/11/2022

When cattle are managed properly they can actually help to ADD carbon back into depleted soils!

Grasslands need to be grazed to stimulate new plant growth. As grazing animals urinate and defecate onto the grass, they move nutrients around which increases soil moisture and feeds underground microorganisms, thereby increasing biodiversity and creating more fertile land for plants and animals alike.

Moving cattle off of a freshly grazed pasture allows the plants time to regrow and maintain their healthy root systems so they can feed carbon to underground microbial and fungal networks in exchange for nutrients the plants need. Up to 40% of this carbon gets sequestered in the soil.

Carefully managed, intensive grazing also stimulates diverse plant growth and helps ensure that one species of plant cannot overtake a pasture and shade out other forages. The more diverse forages that are in a pasture, the more diverse the animal life, and the healthier the soils will be to continue to support a thriving ecosystem.

In contrast, continuous grazing (a term used to describe situations where cattle are allowed to graze wherever they want as much as they want) can deplete plant root biomass, increases the bare ground in brittle areas, lowers SOC reserves, and can contribute to soil erosion and compaction, decreasing its water holding capacity. Sediments from eroded soils, both due to overgrazing and poor cropping, emit GHG when organic matter sediments enter anaerobic waterways.

Let’s also not forget that prior to the mid-1800s, there were an estimated 30-60 million bison, over 10 million elk, 30 to 40 million Whitetail deer, 10 to 13 million Mule deer, and 35 to 100 million pronghorn and caribou roaming North America. Yet nobody seems to acknowledge this when citing current “devastating” herbivore numbers.

According to a paper published in the Journal of Animal Science, in pre-colonial settlement America, methane emissions were about 84% of current emissions.

Ultimately, cattle are a critical link in the relationship between soil, plants, rainfall, and sunshine. Without ruminants to keep forages grazed down and to deposit natural fertilizer, many pastures would become stagnant and overtaken by a few species of plants. Well-managed cattle can create healthier soils and more diverse plant life. This leads to better habitat for wildlife and reduces reliance on synthetic inputs like fertilizer.

Head over to to learn more about the indispensable role that cattle must play in any regenerative and sustainable food system!

03/23/2022

We wish you all a very happy National Agriculture Day. ☀️Today, we recognize and commemorate the role that agriculture plays in our daily lives. At K-State Ag, we are proud of our students, faculty, researchers and staff members who work hard to help grow and sustain agriculture across the globe. Let's celebrate the contributions of agriculture in our lives today!