Beef Cattle
What's at stake in every kilo gained
In beef cattle farming, efficiency is the result of consistency throughout the production cycle.
Weight gain, feed efficiency, batch uniformity, and carcass yield directly influence zootechnical performance and the economic result of production, especially in the early stages, where small accumulated losses have a major impact on cost per kilo produced.
At the same time, modern beef farming operates under different production and environmental challenges. Transport, regrouping, vaccination, weather fluctuations, adaptation to confinement and/or diets, plus high health pressure, all raise the animals' metabolic demands and can compromise immune response and zootechnical performance.
Another relevant point is variability within the batch. Differences in birth weight, health history, nutritional adaptation, and early-stage performance can result in different growth trajectories, compromising herd uniformity, batch predictability, and finishing system efficiency.
In this scenario, nutrition plays a strategic role in metabolic efficiency, tissue integrity, physiological response, and the animal's ability to sustain performance throughout the production cycle.
Mineral supplementation deserves special attention in this context. Beyond meeting nutritional requirements, the challenge lies in ensuring metabolic availability and efficient mineral utilization, favoring absorption, growth, and better use of the diet, which reflects on the herd's production potential.
How does it work?
Most beef cattle mineral programs were built on inorganic minerals, or more recently, on chelates of one mineral at a time. Nurio Plex starts from a different premise.
A single structure. Seven essential minerals. Delivered together, in a coordinated way, with stability maintained throughout the entire digestive tract, regardless of pH, diet, or cycle stage.
This means that each mineral in the structure reaches the animal's metabolism in a condition to be used, not wasted through antagonistic interactions or ruminal environment variation, ensuring mineral bioavailability for physiological processes related to growth, energy metabolism, immune response, tissue integrity, and the animal's adaptation to production challenges.
In practice, the goal isn't simply to supplement minerals to correct nutritional deficiencies in the diet or pasture, but to contribute to a more consistent metabolism, capable of sustaining performance, production efficiency, and the herd's best zootechnical potential.
Performance: growth and economic efficiency
In beef cattle farming, weight gain is one of the main performance indicators. However, system efficiency depends on the ability to consistently convert nutrients into growth, sustaining zootechnical performance, batch uniformity, and feed efficiency throughout the production cycle.
In evaluations conducted on international commercial farms, cattle supplemented with Nurio Plex showed an approximate 6% improvement in average daily gain compared to conventional mineral programs.
In intensive and semi-intensive systems, consistent performance gains tend to contribute to greater cycle efficiency, favoring better use of the diet, a shorter finishing period, and greater production predictability.
Low-birth-weight animals
Animals with lower birth weight often show inferior performance throughout the cycle and greater heterogeneity within the batch. In evaluations with Nurio Plex, these animals showed a growth trajectory closer to that observed in cattle with adequate initial weight, suggesting potential support for uniformity and production consistency within the system.
Beyond growth, sustaining performance in higher-challenge environments depends on the animal's ability to respond adequately to health, nutritional, and environmental factors. In this context, metabolic efficiency, physiological response, and proper nutrient utilization become central factors for the operation's production and economic performance.
Rather than simply increasing weight gain at a single point in time, the goal is to contribute to greater performance consistency throughout the cycle, favoring production efficiency and better use of the herd's zootechnical potential.
+6% ADG
Average daily gain, higher than the conventional mineral control
Fewer days on feed
Earlier slaughter, lower accumulated feed and handling costs
Recovered uniformity
Low-weight animals with growth trajectory close to the rest of the herd
Data Based on observations on international commercial farms
Animal health: essential to ensure performance
Animals exposed to health, environmental, or metabolic challenges tend to have higher physiological demands to overcome inflammatory processes, compromising feed efficiency, weight gain, and performance consistency throughout the cycle, since part of the energy needed for these processes is diverted toward maintaining health.
In this context, mechanisms related to oxidative stress, antioxidant response, and immunometabolic balance play an important role in the animal's ability to sustain growth under challenging production conditions.
In evaluations conducted on international commercial farms, cattle supplemented with Nurio Plex showed favorable responses in markers associated with oxidative stress and antioxidant activity, suggesting greater metabolic and physiological stability throughout the production cycle. Lower susceptibility to health challenges was also observed, indicating positive support for immune response, an important factor in intensive and semi-intensive systems that face greater health pressure.
By sustaining metabolic balance and achieving a better physiological response, we support herd performance, obtain lower variability among animals, and improve the ability to adapt to common production challenges.
Rather than simply responding to isolated events, Nurio Plex's proposal is to contribute to physiological conditions capable of sustaining performance, production efficiency, and greater animal resilience throughout the cycle, favoring lower susceptibility to challenges that might require therapeutic intervention.
Animal health as a competitive advantage
There is also an important transformation underway in animal production. The growing adoption of systems oriented toward the prudent use of antimicrobials has gained new regulatory weight with Ordinance SDA/MAPA No. 1,617/2026, which restricts the use of antimicrobials as growth promoters and reinforces the search for strategies capable of sustaining productivity and animal health through nutrition, management, and physiological support.
In this new era, nutritional programs focused on metabolic balance, physiological response, and animal resilience become part of building more consistent production systems, better prepared for the health and production challenges of the cycle. Rather than simply responding to isolated challenges, the goal becomes sustaining regular performance, production efficiency, and herd stability over time.
A physiologically balanced animal is one with a greater ability to use nutrients efficiently, respond to environmental challenges, and express its production potential within the conditions of the system.
Less oxidative stress
Reduced oxidative damage markers, more stable metabolism
Better immunity
Superior immune parameters vs. the control group
Fewer interventions
Lower frequency of health events, reduced veterinary costs
Rational use of antimicrobials
Effect on insulin sensitivity and glycemic control
Data Based on observations on international commercial farms
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