Comprehensive Solutions for Success
Maximizing profitability through innovative nutrition models and data-driven coaching.
Optimizing Dairy and Beef Performance
As much as we might say that we are in this business because we love cows, the reality is that we all must focus on sound science and proven business principles to ensure positive economic results. DNMC provides strong leadership to producers to achieve that success.
Nutrition Formulation and On-Farm Review
Unlock Peak Performance and Higher Margins with Optimized Rations
DNMC’s core focus is creating optimized diets tailored to each specific situation, using industry-leading formulation models that consider both biological and economic factors. We excel in on-farm implementation, ensuring that the entire process—from mixing feed to visually analyzing cows—is carried out with a commitment to both the animals and the people who care for them.
Performance Analytics and Insights
Turn Data into Actionable Strategies to Maximize Profitability
DNMC combines regularly scheduled visual appraisal of cows with in-depth data analysis to measure success comprehensively. We analyze biological data related to production, health, and reproduction, as well as financial data tied to economic outcomes. This thorough approach, enhanced by decades of experience, results in actionable recommendations that drive farm success.
Young Animal Consulting
Investing in the Future: Optimize Young Animal Nutrition & Management
DNMC recognizes that calves require specialized nutrition and care distinct from adult cows and has built a team with real world production experience to ensure success. We collaborate closely with herd health veterinarians and feed mills to guarantee that calves receive proper feeding and housing, supporting not just optimal growth rates but also overall health and well-being.
Dairy Sustainability Strategies
Learn From Industry-Leading Dairy Sustainability Consultants
DNMC has taken a leadership role in advancing sustainability within the dairy industry. We focus on improving economic viability while addressing critical environmental concerns such as carbon use, carbon loss, and water resource management. Our experience in high-level water and climate strategies positions us as a strong partner for dairies looking to enhance their sustainability efforts and results.
Organic Dairy Strategies
Thrive in the Organic Dairy Market with Expert Strategies
DNMC has a long history of leading organic dairies, leveraging our expertise in forage production and grazing systems to develop effective nutritional programs. We collaborate with organic feed suppliers, certifiers, and others to meet the unique requirements of organic dairy production while ensuring strong outcomes in production, reproduction, and cow health.
Forage Production Support
Grow High-Quality Feed and Maximize Yield
DNMC places a strong emphasis on forage as the foundation of successful dairy diets. We work closely with farm staff to ensure a consistent supply of quality forage, even in challenging conditions such as multi-year droughts. Our approach integrates rigorous lab analysis, cutting-edge diet modeling, and practical on-farm observations to achieve consistent production outcomes in a wide variety of forage situations.
Sustainable Dairy Management
Sustainability is a word that often creates mixed reaction in our industry. At DNMC, we have chosen to approach this often controversial topic with a balanced approach. While we should listen to the wishes of our consumers, we must also take care of our animals and our land while always considering the economic implications of this important topic.
Advanced Agribusiness Solutions
We often say that our business is a cow-business and a people-business. When adding to that the many logistics involved from feed milling to farming and from transportation to markets, it is an understatement to say it's complicated. DNMC's decades-long experience touching nearly all aspects of dairy, beef and feed production has resulted in deep knowledge to enhance our client's business success.
Feed Mill Formulation Consulting
Elevate Your Feed Production with Experienced Nutritional Support
With roots in both feed production and on-farm nutrition, DNMC is uniquely positioned to bridge the gap between feed mills and animal feeding. Our team’s extensive experience in the feed industry, combined with our practical farm knowledge, enables us to offer comprehensive nutritional and sales training support to feed mills and related sales efforts.
Beef Nutrition
Maximize Beef Production with Proven Nutrition Plans
There is significant overlap between the beef and dairy sectors in nutrition consulting, and DNMC excels in both. Our nutritionists are deeply experienced in each area, making us the ideal partner for navigating the increasingly integrated world of beef-on-dairy systems and other more traditional models from cow-calf operations through finishing.
Data-Driven Innovation
Accelerate Your Product Development, Field Trials, and On-Farm Implementation
DNMC specializes in the dairy and beef industries by combining advanced automated data generation with leading-edge nutrition to produce high-quality, actionable insights. Our deep experience in data gathering, analysis, and interpretation makes us a trusted partner for companies conducting field trials and making data-driven decisions in production environments.
FAQs
Find answers to frequently asked questions about our services and expertise.
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We always work as a team to support our clients. From our team members pulling data and making reports to others doing shaker box an manure screen work on-farm, our formulating nutritionists always have the best information at hand to create the best nutritional and management solutions. At DNMC, "teamwork" is not just a marketing slogan but the way we work every day to serve our clients.
In many cases, a DNMC dairy client receives two visits per month. One visit is by a team member gathering information, making various measurements and observations to support the overall consulting effort. A second visit is completed by the lead formulating nutritionist to review diets and performance data, observe the animals and discuss the overall strategy of the farm. Once again, it is a team approach that ensures success.
We always remember that success happens one cow at a time. When we do complicated nutrition modelling, we are considering all of the intricate details of one cow that represents the average of the cows in the group being fed. The biology of feeding animals is the same if it is a few cows or a few thousand cows. A farm's success or failure happens one cow at a time. Thus, we care about cow health and how our diets help or hurt the overall heath status of the herd. We work very hard to build healthy diets that support long term cow health, wellness, comfort, and reproduction. All of this effort happens in a strong awareness that economics are in play and the financial success of the farm can be significantly impacted by the diets formulated by DNMC.