DAIRY
We believe our producers and their animals deserve only the best – which is why we offer top-rated brands to improve the efficiency, productivity, and profitability of our customers’ livestock operations.
Heartland Feed Services has a full line up of feed products and three mills that can mix and deliver feed directly to your farm. Our feed department includes all the products, supplies and ingredients, as well as the service and delivery to assist your operation. Bulk deliveries are available for your convenience.
WE CARRY:
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Heartland Feed Services Custom Feeds
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Purina Animal NutritionPurina Animal Nutrition
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Quality Liquid FeedQuality Liquid Feed
DAIRY
Today’s dairyman faces the challenges of not only keeping track of the bottom line, but delivering a quality product to kitchen tables nationwide. At Heartland Feed Services, we are equipped with a knowledgeable and driven sales staff willing and able to assist our customers in meeting these challenges and quality products to back them up along the way. Our team of dairy and calf specialists are committed to you, your operation and providing you with top-rated nutritional products during all stages of development for your herd.
COMMERCIAL FEED
With multiple trucks and efficient mixing + scheduling, our team is able to offer bulk feed delivery to support you and your growing operation.
We believe in a hands-on approach that involves working side-by-side to provide you with the resources you need to produce healthy cattle. Whether you’re looking for a feed analysis, nutritional guidance, industry updates, budgeting or educational opportunities, such as tours of a new feed lot design or milking operation – our team is here to support you and your operation in achieving maximum profitability on your farm.
DAIRY SERVICES
Offering innovative solutions that optimize the quality, health and performance of your dairy operation is what we do best. Our team of dairy experts are committed to providing customers with products and solutions that will improve profitability and optimize the health of their herd.
YOUNG ANIMAL SERVICES
LACTATING SERVICES
Sanitation Audit
SOP for Cleaning Equipment
Mixing Schedules
Air Sampling for Bacteria Growth
Custom Air Tube Design
Spanish Translation
Milk Replacer Mixers
Pasteurizing Testing Kits
Milk Testing & SOP's
Deep Naso-Pharyngeal Swabs
Manure Sampling
Water Testing
LACTATING SERVICES
Forage Testing
Silage Stabilizers
Ration Balancing
Customized Purina Feeds
Customized Ingredient Mixes
Customized Consultant Diets
QLF – Liquid Programs
Bin Programs
DAIRY FAQ
We suggest offering a good quality starter within the first 3 days of birth. Offering small amounts of starter early on will allow your calves to find and introduce themselves to starter intakes sooner. Always offer free choice water.
Heartland Feed Services offers many different milk replacer and calf programs. Every farm is different and our calf and heifer specialists work with each operation to help you determine your growth goals and how to reach them.
Maintaining a healthy gut is always important in every calf, but all probiotics are not the same. While some probiotics are more calf specific then others, we encourage you to work with your feed specialist to help maintain a healthy gut environment in your calves.
This is called compensatory gain, and the answer is no. While it may cost less to put weight on an animal as he or she gets older, you lose the efficiency as a young animal and you cannot make up for the lost gain opportunities at a young age during the grower stage or beyond.
Most commonly dairy replacement heifers are kept on milk for 7 to 8 weeks, where dairy bull calves may be weaned a week earlier around 6-7 weeks. Weaning can vary on each farm depending on your current program and growth goals.
Yes, in addition to milk replacer we offer a balancer product that can boost your whole milk to help your calves put on both frame growth and weight to get your calves off to a better start, while still being able to use on farm milk. Talk with one of the Heartland Feed Services calf and heifer specialists to build a plan that gives your calves a balanced nutrition program.
Yes, Heartland Feed Services’ calf and heifer specialists can work with you to come up with a feeding program individualized to your farm and growth goals.
Yes, we work with both programs. Heartland Feed Services Feed Advisors can provide nutritional advise and customized diets to meet your nutritional needs. We also work with several individual consultants and provide manufacturing and delivery based upon their recommendations.
We can have a feed advisor pull your forage samples, have them sent to a lab for testing & provide you with the balanced diet that incorporates your forage analysis.
Yes, we offer free grain bank services for producers, with grain, who also do their feed business with Heartland Feed Services. Corn must be delivered to a Heartland Feed Location.
Yes, if you own a share of stock ($10 cost). Stock must be purchased before the end of the fiscal year to qualify. Refund is determined at the end of each fiscal year.
Yes, we can provide pricing for corn, supplements and some ingredients. Contact your Heartland Feed Advisor for more information.
