Salt & Animal Health: Salt and Trace Minerals Newsletter

Salt-limited Supplementation of Grazing Animals

2008-06-27T15:22:00Z

Volume 40, Number 2 of Salt and Trace Minerals is ready for your review. It features a timely article instructing on the benefits and techniques of using salt to control animals' intake of supplements to their forage diet.

Winter Salt and Trace Minerals newsletter features salt toxicity

2008-02-23T15:47:12Z

With an adequate supply of drinking water, salt toxicity need not be a concern in feeding livestock and poultry. That's the main message in a well-sourced review of "Preventing Salt Toxicity" in the Winter 2008 issue of Salt and Trace Minerals newsletter. "The benefits of feeding a well-fortified trace mineralized salt far out weigh the risk of a salt toxicity," concludes Dr. Larry Berger.

Fall S&TM features article on trace minerals delivery

2008-01-11T17:26:59Z

The most common delivery mechanism is also the most cost-effective, Dr. Larry Berger explains in the Fall issue of Salt and Trace Minerals.

Cattle producers recycle too!

2007-10-04T15:46:32Z

Larry Berger's article in Salt and Trace Minerals newsletter, extolling the economic virtues of using salt to promote rotational grazing, was just reprinted in the American Cowman. Recycling par excellence.

Minerals for feeder calves

2007-08-08T21:21:13Z

The Summer edition of Salt and Trace Minerals newsletter has been published featuring an examination of "Factors affecting the mineral status of feeder calves," by SI ag consultant and University of Illinois animal science professor Larry L. Berger, Ph.D.

Dr. Berger explains why feeding a properly fortified trace mineralized salt to cows in the creep feed and preconditioning periods "is essential to optimize the health and profitability of feeder calves."

Rotational grazing can shave feed costs

2007-05-15T20:43:46Z

With grain prices skyrocketing, livestock producers are revisiting the economics of intensive grazing; it can save 30% of the cost of grazing beef cattle compared to conventional grazing. The Spring Salt and Trace Minerals newsletter features Dr. Larry Berger's analysis of salt's role in rotational grazing.

Calculating the safe upper limit of TM supplements

2007-01-22T19:09:17Z

Sometimes confusion results in trying to explain the concentrations of various trace minerals in a trace mineral-fortified salt product and the resulting concentration of that mineral in the overall diet of livestock, poultry or pets. In the new Winter 2007 edition of Salt and Trace Minerals newsletter, Dr. Larry Berger reviews how animal nutrition professionals calculate these values to ensure that they fall below the safe upper limit of trace mineral supplements.

Fall Salt and Trace Minerals features "Fescue and Trace Minerals"

2006-10-31T22:08:02Z

Trace mineral supplementation programs need to consider the kinds and degree of mineral deficiencies in the basal diet. Pastures of tall Fescue are particularly deficient in sodium, copper, zinc and selenium in the Southeast US. Salt is a good carrier for these trace minerals.

The Fall Salt and Trace Minerals newsletter explores the advantages of feeding a properly-fortified trace mineral mix for cow-calf operations when grazing Fescue pastures.

Read past issues too.

Spring newsletter features Trace Minerals and Cadmium Toxicity

2006-05-02T01:52:32Z

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2006-02-18T03:49:08Z

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