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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're back with the master rowing a duncan.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
And for Andy you're joining me now is Liz Firm,
sales and marketing manager at ab Lime.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Good afternoon, Lisz. Hello, how are you very well? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And we are going to be talking about cow, so
we're going to be very well healthy cow calcium supplement.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
But first of all tell me about your products.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, well, healthy Cow sort of originated from opposite. It's
a lime based product. It's a calcium based product. So
we have got a mill, a separate mill here and
we turn our egg limon into a fine line for
healthy Cow. And so we've got a half of cow
calcium is a sort of standard one, and then we've
got I sponge that We've got two other sort of
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products that are standards, and we have a custom blend.
So we have the halfa cow calcium and we have
the Healthy Cow eighty twenty which is you calcium plus
magnesium and meg for that product is out of Australia,
so it's quite high quality. And then we have a
solage blend. Twitch is a havocal solids doclement. It's not
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as widely used as the other two, but it is
just basically a calcium and magnesium and a little bit
of salt in the have to go on top of
your solids. And then as thoughts product which is not
as standards thatt of bagged product, as we have custom blends,
so we have clients that will have a nutritionness that
want to put their minerals in it, and so that
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they can do a custom blend with us and decide
what ratio they want.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Right, and of course really topical as we've been talking
about coming into that peak carving season not too far away,
it always rolls around quicker than it should every single year.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Why feed fine lime and not agg lime?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Well, fine lime obviously it's finer particles, more areas, more
product is in more area for als, so yeah, and
then also the standard in New Zealand for animal health
products is fine finess. Yeah, it's just more observable throat
for the cow and it's it needs to be fine
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for feed.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, brilliant. So obviously it's very basics.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I guess calcium goes out the gate and milk every day,
so you need to replace it, and there's just not
enough in our grass.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
No, there's no we've sort of been studies down here
because it is perceived that we've got plenty in air grass,
but we definitely don't. And it's I think the cows
are getting they're producing more air, cows are getting more efficient,
and there's just not enough calcium there. And I mean
there's one thing that people may not know or they
may know that the clostrum cow has got four times
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much calcium, so they have to hit the ground running
as soon as the calves. They need to have so
much calcium in their system. But also with that milk curve,
I think that you'll find that any any cow that's
really hyprodesding, they'll have calcium being added to their fees
or into their systems. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Absolutely, because I think you've seen me through away. Not
here are saying that a cow won't produce low calcium milk.
She'll just produce less milk, which is not ideal, especially
in today's current financial climate.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
No, and I definitely not. And that's something that was
really surprising to us and Nutriousness to come up with
that little pearl wisdom. And it sort of makes sense
when we look at our own dairy farmb here we
have dispenses and their sheds and the cows get somend
fed the sort of full amount the whole year round,
and we've got really quite good producing cows now. But yes,
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I just was unusual. You just didn't realize that that's
how the cow. Very clever, aren't they. We didn't realize
that that was exactly what they just won't produce localcy milk,
which is interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
It makes so much sense as well once you think
of it, but it's just seeing it in that stark term.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Hey, yes, definitely, yes, definitely.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Now what is the key to keeping the cow healthy
and producing milk to full capacity? I guess it's kind
of like looking at your feeding all season round?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, it is, really, and it's like anything. Calcium is
like anything. I mean, it's yeah, mineral whatever. One's the
lowest age limiting factor. Probably a little bit more important
for the calcium because it's in the milk and it's
leaving the gate every day, it's going out in the tanker,
and so you need to be replacing that. But it
is also the other house benefits. They feel so much
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better when they've got that calcium in their system, and
they're less likely to get any metabolic type symptoms or conditions.
So yeah, it's more also keeping them healthy as well
as just you know, getting that producing a lot more
as well.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And how affordable is looking at this all season round? Wow?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Actually really we often joke that it's a relatively cheap
because it is. It's about nine dollars and nine cents
per cow for the whole season and it's feeding right
from wino calve and right until the end of sort
of May when they're drawing off and stuff, so it's
not that expensive per cow and that, and like we're
get at quite high rates. Like if you look at
a rate cuds, people probably go, we'll off it's low
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cutem to get in the system, but it does high rates,
so it's very very cheap product to put on the system.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So nine dollars and nine cents per cow, that's actually
not much more than a milk solid No.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Exactly exactly, So I know it's yeah, so here we
often make that comment that it's super check to get
into there.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, it's a bit of a no brainer for me.
Lesbian and sales and marketing manager at ab Lime. Thank
you so much. I feel like I'm smarter for having talked.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Really appreciate your time on the muster today.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Thank you