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Add KERVA to your cattle’s feed to increase protein levels whilst reducing €€€ and improving animal health.

Inform Nutrition’s KERVA treated grain is the most financially viable option for your winter milk young stock and finishing beef diets this winter.


KERVA has been formulated with the following key benefits for farmers:

  • Preserving grain & reducing storage losses due to moulds and heating issues

  • Proving a nutritionally enhanced concentrate

  • Reduced ration costs

  • Improved animal performance


Reducing Storage Losses

Treated KERVA grain increases the pH through the production of ammonium bicarbonate. This stabilises the grain and prevents microorganisms from growing and respiring. It can be used on grain at harvest or dormant grain post-harvest.


Nutritionally Enhanced Concentrate

KERVA provides a buffer which allows the rumen to combat excess acidity from rapidly fermentable starches and sugars in the diet which has been proven to result in better finishing performance and milk production and reduces digestive upsets and lameness.

Due to this alkaline pH, grain can be safely fed at much higher levels than conventionally treated grain and dietary fibre constraints can therefore be reduced.





Cost Reduction

The high associated costs involved in maintaining stable rumen health in beef and dairy herds whilst they are consuming large amounts of rapidly fermentable grain starch is a huge problem for farmers, particularly in high performance indoor systems.

Digestible fibre is often more expensive to purchase than home produced cereal. Adding KERVA treated grain into your feed reduces your dependency on this by reducing your input costs. KERVA treated grain increases the amount of protein per grain typically by 4 units ultimately providing a 2:1 return in investment.








Animal Performance - Beef

To produce high-quality animals, it is desirable to finish cattle on a high level of grain. Whilst using KERVA in finishing beef diets, trials have shown an improved performance of 10% average weight gain through improved rumen health and subsequent reduction in lameness.


Kerva

Control


Starting weight kg 

442.5

444.0


Finishing weight kg 

550.85

542.5


Gain kg

108.35

98.5


ADLG

1.35

1.23

+10%

Locomotion score ≥ 2

4/30

11/28


Finishing Holstein Bulls on high concentrate diet


Animal Performance - Dairy

In trials involving dairy cows on KERVA treated grain, an improvement over 80 days, milk yield of 2 litres of milk per day in freshly calved cows was seen. Improvements in lameness, a lowering of digestive upsets and metabolic issues were also observed.


Comparison between Kerva Treated Grain and Propionic Treated Grain

KERVA Treated

Propionic Acid

Easy & Safe to use

Can be corrosive & harmful to user

Increases protein value by €40/t

NO protein benefit

Increases pH of grain

Decreases pH of grain

Reduces animal digestion issues

Can cause digestive imbalances

Increases animal performance

No finishing or milk production improvement

No fermentation losses

No fermentation losses

The benefits of using KERVA treated grain far outweigh any perceived cost savings associated with using propionic acid to treat grain. Less work and safer for the farmer to use, our higher protein output performance makes KERVA treated grain the only sensible choice for your winter milk stock and finishing beef this winter.



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