PerforMAX Animal Nutrition

01/10/2025

📝🐮Keeping records is an important part of all livestock operations. Record keeping helps you to:

📓Make informed decisions
✏️Trouble shoot problems
💵Budget and determine your cost of production
📈Track goals

Beef Cattle Research Council has a number of different resources to help you determine which records to keep and how to analyze the data to assist in decision making.
Check it out below! 👇👇👇
https://www.beefresearch.ca/topics/record-keeping-benchmarking-intro/

12/31/2024

🎉🥂Happy New Year from the PerforMAX team!

Thank you for your support this past year. We look forward to working with you in 2025!

12/20/2024

🎄🥂Happy Holidays!

All Blair's locations will be observing the following holiday hours.

🌟The PerforMAX team wishes you all a happy and safe holiday season!

12/12/2024

🐮PerforMAX Apex is a premix mineral best suited for when feeding a total mixed ration containing high grain or high cereal forage content.

✏️Contains hydroxy trace minerals which have elevated bioavailability

✏️Formulated with natural vitamin E for increased absorbability

✏️Contains monensin sodium as an aid in the prevention of coccidiosis

❗️Contact your local Blair's to see if PerforMAX Apex is right for your operation!

12/02/2024

🌟What an amazing week!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth this past week at Agribition, it was wonderful to catch up with old friends and meet some new ones too!

🚨Don't forget, our mineral and tub sale ends this Friday, December 6. Get your orders in!

11/06/2024

🚨Cattle producers check out this incredible learning opportunity!

Our PerforMAX team will be at Rancher's University and would love to see you there!

Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association is happy to share Rancher's University 2024!

December 6-7 for two full days of learning, networking, and expert-led workshops! From funding opportunities to drought management and hands-on cattle handling, we’ve got you covered with practical knowledge that will benefit your operation.

Don't miss this chance to connect with industry experts and learn the latest strategies to enhance your cattle business!

10/24/2024

🧪Getting your feed tested before you start feeding it can help you to:

🔍Identify potential issues caused by nitrates, sulfates, or other minerals and nutrients

🔍Identify nutritional gaps that may require supplementation

📝Develop appropriate rations that meet the nutritional needs of your beef cattle

❄️Reach out to your local Blair's to get your feed tested before the snow flies!

10/07/2024

🚨FALL SALE🚨

🍂The mornings are cool and the leaves are starting to change colour, that can only mean one thing... Blair's fall mineral and tub sale is back!

💸Save on PerforMAX premixes, weather-protected free choice mineral, and Rite-Lix tubs from October 7 to December 6.

📞Contact your local Blair's retail for more information and to place an order!

10/03/2024

❗️Trace mineral deficiencies are common in cow-calf herds without proper mineral supplementation.

👇Check out the post below from Beef Cattle Research Council for more information on trace mineral requirements in beef cattle.

Monitoring the trace mineral status of your beef cattle herd during fall preg-checks is a good idea. Testing at this point should allow ample time to adjust supplementation to correct any identified deficiencies prior to calving.

Work with your veterinarian and nutritionist to ensure the trace mineral requirements of your herd are being met.

Learn more about trace mineral requirements of a beef herd. ⬇️
https://www.beefresearch.ca/blog/navigating-trace-mineral-requirements-of-a-beef-herd/

09/19/2024

🐮PerforMAX Powermin is a free-choice mineral best suited for when feeding/grazing high quality forages, corn grazing or swath grazing and during low stress times in the production cycle

✏️Contains hydroxy trace minerals which have elevated bioavailability

✏️Formulated with natural vitamin E and calcium magnesium carbonate for increased absorbability of key vitamins and minerals

✏️Goes through a weatherization process which creates coarse particles that reduce environmental losses from rain and wind

09/12/2024

💧The quality of your water source is always fluctuating, regular testing is recommended to monitor potential water quality issues

🔎Water testing provides information on your water's pH, hardness, total dissolved solids as well as potential antagonists, such as sulfates.

❗️Blair's is partnered with a testing lab; just bring a sample of your water into your local Blair's and we'll handle the rest!

09/05/2024

📌Stored hay bales will have varying levels of quality loss due to precipitation, the storage site and the original condition of the bale

📌Large hard-core bales are best as they shed water better than smaller soft-core bales

📌Ideally bales would be covered and on a firm base of coarse rock, but covered storage is often not realistic

📌The best uncovered storage method is for bales to be end-to-end in single rows with space between bales for good air circulation and drying

📌Other methods include the mushroom stack or pyramid stack but shedding of water from top bales onto bottom bales can cause larger losses in lower bales

📌It's important to consider potential feed loss when deciding how to store feed on your operation

08/29/2024

Check out this extended grazing checklist from Beef Cattle Research Council

Consider extended grazing systems to reduce labour, reduce feed delivery costs and reduce manure handling

Extending the grazing season through stockpiled forage, crop residue, bale grazing or swath grazing can reduce labour, transport and delivery of feed and manure handling.

Producers looking at extended grazing options must remember to:
✅️provide adequate stock water (or clean, fluffy snow)
✅️appropriate shelter from cold temperatures
✅️consider fencing options
✅️include feed testing of standing forages or crops to ensure nutrient needs are met
✅️have a back-up plan in case things go differently than expected

Learn more and download our extended grazing checklist. ⬇️https://www.beefresearch.ca/topics/extended-grazing/

08/23/2024

🐮PerforMAX SR Beef Developer is a textured feed designed for raising 4H steers, getting a show string ready or developing a pen of high performance bulls

✏️Contains 14% crude protein to ensure deposition of lean tissue

✏️Formulated with multiple energy sources for a balanced supply of energy to the rumen

✏️Medicated with monensin sodium to aid in prevention of coccidiosis

❗PerforMAX SR Beef Developer is available in bags, totes or bulk loads. Contact your local Blair's for more information and to place an order!

08/15/2024

Follow these simple tips when taking feed samples!

📝Probe 10% of your bales and select representative bales for the most accurate test results

📝Probe round bales from the side of the bale, NOT from the end

📝Thoroughly combine the samples from 10% of your bales to fill a large Ziploc bag

📬Bring your sample into your local Blair's office to send for testing!

🚨Contact your local Blair's retail for more information on feed sampling and test results!

08/07/2024

☀️As the summer wears on pasture quality declines and can leave your animals needing more

🌿Pasture protein and digestible energy levels drop as the plant matures

👍Lick tubs with added protein and energy can help bridge the gap between your pasture's available nutrients and your animal's nutritional requirements

❗️Blair's carries a variety of lick tubs to suit your specific needs, reach out to learn more!

08/02/2024

🌿Silage is becoming a more common way to preserve feed in Western Canada, but chopping and packing must be done right to ensure optimum quality

💧Moisture of the chopped forage should be between 60% and 65%

🚜Each packing layer should be no more than six inches deep; it is not possible to overpack silage

✂️Proper chop length is 1/4 - 1/2 inch for corn and 3/8 - 1/2 inch for cereals, grass, and alfalfa

🚨Silage inoculant is available through your local Blairs, give us a call to place an order!