Many factors influence the success and health of a cow and calf, but none so much as nutrition. Something as simple as the type of trace minerals fed can affect immune status, weaning weights and pregnancy rates.

Shelby Roberts, a research scientist at the Alltech Center for Animal Nutrigenomics and Applied Animal Nutrition research facility, shares research showing how trace minerals can affect both dams and calves during calving season and beyond.

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