Dairy Cattle
What's at stake in every lactation
Economic success in dairy farming isn't limited to production efficiency alone, it also depends on reproductive efficiency, health, and herd longevity.
Getting a heifer to her first lactation takes time, management, and investment. That's why losing production performance, having a metabolic problem, or shortening a cow's productive life is costly, and producers often don't notice it day to day.
In this scenario, mineralization stops being just another routine management practice and becomes an important factor in sustaining production, health, and longevity. Nurio Plex was designed to support this work, helping the cow get through each lactation with greater production consistency.
How Nurio Plex works
Mineral nutrition for high-producing dairy cows requires special attention, especially during the transition period, when the cow faces one of the biggest metabolic challenges of the production cycle and needs to sustain the start of lactation without compromising health and performance.
This animal category needs more than mineral supplementation, because the challenge is ensuring the availability and proper utilization of these nutrients throughout the digestive tract, in a way that matches the metabolic intensity of the high-producing animal.
This is the context in which Nurio Plex proposes a different approach. 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.
Milk production and quality
In the dairy business, economic return isn't tied only to volume produced. Indicators such as fat content, protein, milk quality, and somatic cell count (SCC) directly influence how production is valued and, to a large extent, reflect the herd's metabolic and health status.
In evaluations conducted on international commercial farms, cows supplemented with Nurio Plex showed improvement in indicators related to milk composition, with increased fat content and fat yield, as well as higher Fat-Corrected Milk (FCM). Under quality-based payment systems, these figures can translate into greater value for the production throughout the lactation.
Another result observed was the impact on SCC. The supplemented group showed a higher proportion of cows within parameters considered adequate for milk quality, suggesting less inflammatory involvement of the mammary gland and better conditions for sustaining production throughout the lactation.
In dairy herds, it's known that udder health indicators are directly related to production persistence, involuntary culling, and animal longevity.
The results also stand out in situations of greater environmental and physiological challenge. Under stressful conditions, cows supplemented with Nurio Plex maintained more consistent production performance and milk composition compared to the control group, indicating that greater mineral bioavailability resulted in greater metabolic adaptation capacity during critical periods.
In Brazil, studies are underway to evaluate these results under the management, climate, and production system conditions typical of the domestic market.
+0.3% fat
in milk fat content, significant additional revenue per lactation
+8% FCM
compared to the control group
37% more cows
with SCC ≤ 200,000 cells/ml vs. the control group
Resilience
Production and quality maintained even under adverse conditions
Data Based on observations on international commercial farms
Herd metabolic health
To sustain performance across lactations, it's essential to ensure the animal's ability to maintain metabolic balance in the face of the physiological challenges of the production cycle.
In evaluations conducted on international commercial farms, animals supplemented with Nurio Plex showed a reduction in markers associated with oxidative stress, along with improved antioxidant activity and parameters related to immune response. These effects were observed in both adult cows and calves, suggesting a consistent effect on mechanisms linked to metabolism and physiological adaptation across different production stages.
In calves, more uniform growth performance was also observed among animals born under different initial conditions. Supplemented lower-birth-weight calves showed average daily gain similar to that observed in animals of adequate weight, indicating potential support for development during a decisive stage of rearing.
Responses related to energy metabolism were also observed, including parameters associated with insulin sensitivity and glycemic control, indicating an influence on metabolic mechanisms important for the animal's growth, development, and physiological efficiency.
In dairy systems, greater metabolic stability favors production consistency, health, and the animal's permanence in the herd across lactations.
Less oxidative stress
Drop in oxidative damage markers in cows and calves
Better immunity
Superior immune parameters vs. the control group
Low-birth-weight calves
Weight gain equivalent to that of normal-weight calves
Beyond nutrition
Effect on insulin sensitivity and glycemic control
Data Based on observations on international commercial farms
