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Where’s the beef?
Servi-Tech Laboratories, strategically located
in the heart of cattle feeding country, offers
feed and mycotoxin testing.
By Servi-Tech Staff
Servi-Tech Laboratories got its start early on as a soil
testing lab, but today it provides a wide range of tests
for producers both large and small.
Given Servi-Tech’s footprint and the location of our
three laboratories in Dodge City, Kansas, Amarillo,
Texas, and Hastings, Nebraska, it’s a natural fit to
provide animal feed analysis to the cattle feedlots, beef
feeders and feed mills in the Midwest.
“We’ve all grown accustomed to reading food labels
for ourselves,” said Randy Royle, Servi-Tech’s Chief
Laboratory Officer. “Our labs are providing that same
information for cattle feed.”
Servi-Tech Labs routinely tests for protein, fat, fiber,
minerals, and starch, among others, to help nutritionists
to better balance feed rations for cattle.
“The small producer has access to those same services
for determining safety of feed – like nitrate and prussic
acid – to determine if the feed is safe to consume,” Royle
said.
Every day in the U.S., 76 million people eat beef. And,
according to the House Agricultural Committee, the U.S.
cattle industry is the largest single segment of American
ag with more than 800,000 cattle producers, with Texas
leading in cattle production.
Eight of the top 10 beef feedlot operations in the U.S.
look to Servi-Tech to provide quality analytical services,
as well as seven of the top 10 North American feed
manufacturers.
Fumonisin
A hot topic this year across the Midwest and
Servi-Tech’s footprint was the concern about
mycotoxins, specifically fumonisin.
Fred Vocasek, Senior Lab Agronomist at Servi-Tech
Labs in Dodge City, said fumonisin is a poisonous
compound or toxin produced by various fungi and
Servi-Tech Labs in Amarillo recently
became certified as an approved
location in the “One Sample Strategy”
for Aflatoxin and Fumonisin. For more
information, please visit our Amarillo
Laboratory, or contact us by calling
1-800-557-7509.
WINTER 2017
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