After 35 Years In The Cattle Business, Here's What Impressed Us Most.

Will you talk real quick about the contentment of your cattle? So we've been working really hard for the last thirty five years on temperament and disposition. The reputation of the limousine cattle traditionally hasn't been, that favorable. Here, we raise purebred limousine and Charolais cattle. My dad being a dairy guy at heart, that's all he really knew. So that's sort of the the program we transitioned our beef cattle onto. Of course, we had some fairly steep learning curves with birth weights and things like that. We've tried loose minerals with minimal success. We were leaning towards lick tubs, and we have tried several different brands. We just couldn't find the one that had the right intake. Either they would eat it way too quickly or they wouldn't eat it at all. There was no in between, especially the ones that they eat too fast. Okay. Well, they're getting the mineral, but it's a, costing a lot of money and b, they're just peeing a lot of it out. And then, of course, never ideal to see them sit in the pasture for six weeks and fill with water. Come on. Come on. Come on. It's very easy to move them on pasture. We don't work them with horses or dogs. Right. That's coming up behind you, Matt. Watch out. So the first time we were introduced to Riomax was at Agribition in Regina. It was something new, and the brand was standing behind it, and there were some guarantees. We had the literature, we had the information, the customer service, like the phone calls and the follow-up was incredible. It was on time, it was they called you when they said they were gonna call you, they were asking about intakes, they wanted to know. At first seemed a little bit irritating to me, but then I realized how much they cared about the Riomax tub in my program and how much that made me care that I had Riomax in my program because they really do stand behind their product and they really do care that it's working for you and if it's not working for you, how do we fix this? We never got that from any other brand. The intake guarantee was really important to us, and I think that was first and foremost what we noticed. The intake was exactly what they told us it was going to be. We did have the follow-up with Riomax asking, okay. So you have this many cows, you have this many tubs out, how many tubs have been eaten because you should have this many tubs left, and kinda do the math that way. I think we did that probably for the first two years and realized that, yeah, we're bang on, exactly what we should have. Riomax will call me and say, you know, you should be getting low on tubs. Go and look in the barn. Yep. Sure enough. I'm getting low on tubs. Alright. Let's place another order in. I order once a year, and I have my tubs for all year, which is a nice sort of one time purchase. They are not supplemented at all, through the summer besides the mineral tubs, salt lick, and the grass. The condition that you see these cows in is how they came off grass. They've been on this field for forty eight hours, so this field is not typical to what they would have grazed all summer. They came off our grass in this shape, and that I can attribute to Riomax helping for sure. It obviously is helping with a favorable gut flora. It's obviously helping with digestion. It's also helping with feed intake. I don't know if there was any, like, light switch moment where the cattle weren't fertile, but now they are, or they weren't grouped up in their calving window, but now they are. But over time, it became apparent that they really were. They were really grouped up in their calving window. We haven't had a retained placenta. I don't even remember the last time. So that's really helpful for sure. So I know that they're getting the right nutrition there. Hair coats are shiny. As any veterinarian or embryo technician will tell you, you can have the nicest cow in the world, but if she's not on a good nutrition program, it's she's not gonna give you the fertility that you want. Do the research. Read about them. They do do what they say they're gonna do. The phone calls and the text messages and the emails, just making sure you're always happy and that your intakes are on par, I think is a real testament to the company. They really believe in their product just the same as I do.