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perform at optimal levels.
First, let’s address the cow herd. On the Gulf
Coast of Texas, unfortunately, our period of
high quality forage situations are very limited.
Typically, our country is too wet, too dry, too
hot or too cold for our warm season grasses
to nutritionally perform at a high rate, thus
supplementation of the cow herd is recommended to bridge the nutritional gap between
what the forage provides and the nutritional
needs of the cow herd.
One of the best insurance policies to ensure
proper cow herd nutrition is a great mineral
program. Mineral is a necessity, and consumption of mineral is of the utmost importance.
The Purina Wind & Rain mineral products are
regionally formulated for our area, and these
products offer a great solution for the cow herd
to meet its nutritional requirements. These
products are formulated to meet not only the
macro mineral needs of the cow herd, but also
the trace or micro mineral needs. The elevated
levels of micro minerals in the Purina Wind
& Rain products ensure that the cow meets its
needs of normally deficient minerals in our
area. The added copper and zinc are extremely
important in both reproduction and immunity.
Most of the minerals a