What is the HEAT technology?
AO-Biotics® Amaferm®:
AO-Biotics Amaferm is a prebiotic research-proven to enhance digestibility.
Essential Oils:
A proprietary blend of essential oils support animals when heat is a challenge.
Garlic:
Garlic helps to deter insects.
Ways to get HEAT in your herd
For your breeding program
VitaFerm® Concept•Aid® 5/S HEAT®
Size: 50 lb. bag
VitaFerm® Concept•Aid® 5/S HEAT® with ClariFly®
Size: 50 lb. bag
VitaFerm® HEAT® Tub
Size: 200 lb. tub
For your whole herd
VitaFerm® HEAT® Tub
Size: 200 lb. tub
For your stockers
Gain Smart® Stocker HEAT®
Size: 50 lb. bag
VitaFerm® HEAT® Stress Tub
Size: 50 lb. tub
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Tips for Combatting Summer Stressors
Warm Temperatures
Progressive Cattleman: Tips for Growing Bulls During Summer Heat
Oil and water. Cats and dogs. Bull fertility and summer heat. All of these are things that don’t necessarily mesh. When it comes to reproductive performance of your herd, you work hard to make sure your cows are in anRead More
A Guide to Reduce Heat Stress in Stocker Operations
As cattle producers, when the temperature rises, you begin to feel the pressure of keeping the herd healthy and efficient. The warmer it gets outside, the more your herd runs the risk of decreased performance, increased sickness and ultimately economicRead More
Making the Transition to Your Summertime Mineral
For many spring-calving cow herds across the country, breeding season is just beginning. This means you will want to give your cows every advantage you can to get them bred and keep them bred, especially through the heat of theRead More
Fescue
Tips for Grazing Cattle on Fescue
Agriculturalists are the original stewards of the land. When they take care of the land, it in turn, takes care of them and the animals that graze it. Grass is the key component in any grazing operation, especially in theRead More
Health and Nutrition are Keys to Prevention
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And for one progressive cattle producer, doing things the right way the first time is worth keeping his cow herd healthy and performing. The Boyd family has been raising registeredRead More
Fescue: Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It
Grass is a key component in any grazing operation, especially in the summer. Tall fescue is the most widely adapted forage in the U.S. It is a persistent grass that is easy to establish, tolerant of a wide range ofRead More
Fly Control
VitaFerm® Offers the Best Fly Control for Cattle
Best Fly Control for Cattle Ready or not, it’s fly season. With Midwest winter days in the 70-degree temperatures and an influx of precipitation across parts of the country, it is ideal breeding conditions for pesky flies. As cattle producers,Read More
The Importance of Using Fly Control Mineral for Cattle
Fly Control Mineral for Cattle Good things don’t always come in small packages. Take the fly for instance. Tiny little flies cost the beef industry more than a billion dollars each year. If you break that down, flies can costRead More
Garlic for Cattle: an Ideal Fly Control Method
Garlic for Cattle Out of sight; out of mind. But what if that nuisance we can’t see is going to cause more than $1 billion in damage to the U.S. beef industry? It’s time to make flies top-of-mind. Yes, thatRead More
“If they are grazing, they are gaining and if they are gaining, there is a payoff there. When cattle are laying in the shade or standing in the mud, they are not consuming forage and therefore they are not growing. We raise our own bulls and our own replacement heifers, so we like to see the cattle out grazing, out gaining weight, where they are more profitable than when they are under the shade. We run our bulls in a river bottom 200 yards from chicken houses, and since we started them on VitaFerm HEAT, they don’t have flies on them. The product is just amazing.”
- Vista Farms
