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At Cattle Empire, we operate what are known as batch mills.
We receive commodities in.
Our primary commodities are corn that we then process and make flaked corn out of.
We use dry distillers grain.
We also use silage.
Those silages are either triticale silage, corn silage, or sorghum silage depending on
the season of the year and where we are working through our inventory.
Then also we utilize a premix.
We use a liquid premix that would contain the supplemental protein that we need as well
as the supplemental minerals that we add.
Then we use a micro machine that adds our micronutrients that we add to the ration.
After all those commodities are in the mill including the flakes, the the batch side of
it is we have a computer system that controls the equipment.
And we weight up the needed nutrients and needed ingredients into the ration depending
on what ration we're making.
We've got tolerances we set so that addition of ingredients has to be within a specific
range.
We work real hard to make sure that's consistent.
After all the ingredients are added to the weigh hopper, then it's dropped into the mixer.
We mix it for a specified period of time, which we determine based upon laboratory analysis
to make sure that we're getting the good consistency that we're looking for in terms of nutrient
profile throughout the whole feed.
After that time, it's elevated then into finished feed bins, and then those finished feed bins
hold that feed until the truck comes for that specific ration.
The truck is loaded.
He picks up a ticket.
It's electronic, but he picks up a ticket that says he's supposed to go feed certain
numbers of pens that ration in a certain amount of feed.