AUG 05 NEWSLETTER

This months linked article's:

NEW STAFF

We are very pleased to announce that as of 1st August we have two new members of staff joining the GP Feeds team, they are:

JESSICA MILLER - lives near Kelsall, Tarporley and will be covering the Cheshire and North Shropshire area.

Jessica has a strong agricultural background and a deep knowledge of livestock, having earned a distinction in nutrition at Harper Adams University, she was a keen member of the South East Holstein Club and recently joined the Western Holstein Society. Jessica regularly shows stock at various local and national shows, and is the only person ever to have won the Showmanship Championship at two consecutive national shows in 2003 and 2004.

Jessica will be an asset to the industry and we wish her well in her new role.

ALWYN HUMPRHREYS - lives near Wrexham and will be covering North Wales, South Cheshire and North Shropshire, and brings with him a lifetime of experience.

Alwyns background comprises of Animal Nutrition, Rationing and has his own unique forage solutions. Alwyn has joined the company as he had tried the rest and now wanted to be part of the best feed company in the local area.

We wish Alwyn well in his new role and are very pleased to have two very experienced, professional individuals joining the GP Feeds team.

DECLARATION TICKETS

We would like to share something with you, we as a company were officially reported to trading standards by a local Cheshire compounder for putting MEGALAC on our declaration tickets. The compounder complained that MEGALAC was not a product but a marketing name, and that we should be declaring it on our declaration tickets as either 'calcium salts' or 'protected fats'!

We informed trading standards that MEGALAC is a patented product of Volac International Ltd, to which the trading standards officer agreed with ourselves, and we are correct to use its name.

We believe the reason this local compounder complained was that they wanted us to be like sheep and follow the rest, hiding what protected fats they are using under the umbrella of 'calcium salts or protected fats'. Which in itself opens up a whole can of worms, with the amount of low grade, cheaper, inferior calcium salts and protected fats that there are on the market.

We at GP Feeds are proud to use MEGALAC in our diets, as we believe it is the best energy fat on the market today.

We promise you, the farming community, that we at GP Feeds will never lower our standards and follow the flock of sheep down the proverbial spiral stairs of low grade products as our competitors do.

Please see our MEGALAC EXCLUSIVITY CONFIRMATION, can your feed supplier supply you this document?

BANGOR ON DEE COURSE

LAMENESS, INFERTILITY, MASTITIS
AND THE ROLE OF DRY COW MANAGEMENT

Thank you to all of you who attended the course hosted by our nutritionist on the 2nd of August at the Buck House Hotel.

I think you will all agree that it was a great beneficial,
'thought provoking day'.

From the feedback we have had already, we will definitely be holding another course in and around the Middlewich area, in the next few months.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Our Agents are very happy to pop out and visit anyone on farm to discuss your nutritional requirements, simply phone us or them, (all numbers listed on the contacts page) to arrange a convenient time.

Watch this space for more excellent courses in your area.

FIRST PRIZE AGAIN FOR GP FEEDS
AT NANTWICH SHOW 2005

Thank you to all of our customers and prospects who came to see us in our marquee on Nantwich Show day! We were very pleased to see you all and hope that you enjoyed the day (and your beef roll!)

We were awarded FIRST PRIZE for the third year running for the BEST AGRICULTURE STAND. The Judges comments were, 'that we had a very nice atmosphere in our marquee, with a clear professional approach and pleasant manner'. We think that his comments sum up GP Feeds Ltd in general.

CONGRATULATIONS to our prize draw winners. The actual number of Excel Pre Calver Rolls in the jar was 707.

1st prize of 1 day foot trimming tuition was won by Mr Johnson of Tarporley.

2nd prize of ½ day free nutritional advice was won by Mr & Mrs Darlington of Whitchurch.

Well done

RUMEN CONDITIONING, COW HEALTH AND FERTILITY

Recent work emphasises the importance of keeping the rumen full of production forage during the last 3 weeks of the dry period. Concentrates that supply minerals, trace elements, vitamins and DUP are required - e.g.: GP Excel Pre-Calver Rolls

Forage dry matter intake after calving has been shown to be directly related to forage dry matter intake before calving - and not related to concentrate intake in the dry period. This keeps the rumen full and stretched and after calving it can expand to fill the gap in the body cavity left by the calf.

GOLDSTAR

We would like to introduce you to our new EXCLUSIVE product! GOLDSTAR is a rumen stable fat in a prill form for high performance dairy cows, made from fractionated palm oil fatty acids: entirely vegetable, without a carrier, 99% fat content. More >>

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