Feedlot operators

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Minimize risk and take the guesswork out of day-to-day feedlot operations with cost-effective feedlot strategies for production efficiency and disease prevention.

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Take the guesswork out of day-to-day operations using health, nutrition and production strategies based on data from individual animal records and cutting-edge research.

Improve insights for better feedlot management

Prevent and manage disease with cost-effective health strategies based on each animal's risk profile through research-driven health protocols and constant monitoring.

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Optimize the animal health and well-being of your cattle

Build a cost-effective nutritional program that supports healthy, productive animals and efficient feedlot operations with customized strategies built by TELUS Feedlot.

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Optimize cost of gain in your feedlot with feeding insights

Improve sorting and profitability by managing your feedlot occupancy and production logistics with TELUS Dynamic Sorting.

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Optimize individual animal returns

Apply more robust cattle procurement and marketing strategies based on specific models built by experts using production data from your operation.

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Refine your cattle procurement and marketing strategies

Uncover cost-effective strategies with customized performance enhancement recommendations based on large-pen commercial field trial data and economic modeling.

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Maximize the economic potential of your animals

TELUS Agriculture cattle health and production research uses large- and small-pen commercial research to provide specific answers to broad questions.

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Industry-leading feedlot research, infrastructure and expertise

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TELUS Feedlot Services: Animal Health

Prevent disease and manage treatments with cost-effective strategies based on each animal's population risk profile with the help of TELUS Agriculture’s extensive research.


Improve the health of your feedlot animals

Make informed decisions about animal health strategies and protocols using large-pen commercial field trial data and economic modeling.


Implement cost-effective strategies

Receive support and use TELUS Feedlot Record Management to reach your animal health and production goals with tailored health protocols, monitoring of health outcomes and cohort benchmarking 


Get the latest in chute side technology 

Collect valuable mortality information and gain key insights every step of the way with TELUS Digital Animal Post Mortem. 


Monitor mortality on an ongoing basis

Receive custom reports with our team’s data insights collected through TELUS Feedlot Record Management and TELUS Digital Animal Post Mortem.


Enhance outcomes with data

With our Animal Health module you receive access to a large team of expert veterinarians with years of feedlot experience.


Receive support from our expert veterinary team

Manage the health and performance of your animals with easy access to the necessary products to ensure your animals are reaching their physiological endpoints.


Reliable pharmaceutical product and consumables supply¹

Our experts use a decision-making framework, rooted in the latest feedlot data stemming from research in pilot to large-pen commercial fields, to optimize your health and production goals.


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Data-driven insights backed by research

The health of individual animals and entire populations are monitored by TELUS Agriculture experts to manage disease.


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Improve your operation with real-time monitoring by a team of experts

TELUS Feedlot Record Management, formerly iFHMS, our chuteside data management program, collects valuable data and is a source for real-time health protocols.


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Industry leading data collection with TELUS Feedlot Record Management

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Improve the overall health of your feedlot animals

Use strategies grounded in large-pen commercial research

Enhance outcomes with data-based decision making 

Get support every step of the way from our veterinary team

Monitor mortality on an ongoing basis and implement control procedures

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Build a cost-effective nutrition program that supports healthy, productive animals and efficient feedlot operations with customized strategies built by TELUS Feedlot.

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Optimize the net cost of production with customized feeding programs supported by research-backed principles based on performance, health and carcass outcomes.


The most cost-effective feeding programs

Accurately project cattle performance, health and carcass characteristics, based on research, commodity availability and price, to optimize cost of gain.

Implement the best feeding strategies

Determine the net economic impact of each feeding program through comprehensive economic modeling to investigate a variety of commodity costing scenarios.


Create stronger, more effective strategies

Refine your feedlot’s quality control and bunk management with training from our bi-lingual team. 


Implement best practices

Optimize your feeding program with real-time monitoring of metabolic events, centralized from TELUS Feedlot Record Management and other data collection sources. 


Receive real-time monitoring

Customized cost-effective feeding strategies developed by TELUS Agriculture experts using research and economic modeling.


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Strategies based on large-pen field trials and economic modeling

Expert-provided training to help feedlots manage day-to-day feed manufacturing and delivery.


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Access a large team of production experts

Scheduled reports, customized to your feedlot, to assist in future decision making.


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Summarized data analysis in real-time

Evaluate site-specific feeding opportunities

Implement cost-effective production practices 

Receive bi-lingual training for your staff

Get real-time monitoring from your TELUS Agriculture experts

Access a large team of TELUS Agriculture experts

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Feeds & Feeding

Manage your feedlot occupancy and production logistics with TELUS Dynamic Sorting, which transfers information between your feedlot, admin systems and TELUS Feedlot Record Management in real-time.

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Individual Animal Management

Take the guesswork out of sorting and group animals consistently by building sorting parameters with your TELUS Agriculture expert.


Market cattle effectively and avoid discounts

Maximize net profitability by managing cattle feeding, production and marketing endpoints while avoiding discounts.

Efficiently sort groups of cattle

Optimize pen occupancy, and feedlot logistics and economic outcomes through the development of marketing strategies with TELUS Agriculture experts.


Optimize feedlot occupancy

Reduce labour and the confusion of swinging gates while moving cattle with integrated peripherals with TELUS Dynamic Sorting.


Sort feedlot cattle quickly and efficiently

Meet the TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods team members who are helping our customers create a more sustainable food future. Dr. Eric Behlke (rhymes with “bell-key”) helps customers enhance the efficiency and sustainability of their feedlots.

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Maximize feedlot returns by bundling TELUS Feedlot Services and gaining access to TELUS Agriculture experts to support your feedlot strategies.


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Enhance services and maximize returns

Combined with TELUS Dynamic Sorting, a customizable tool to help you sort cattle into groups, TELUS Agriculture experts will work with you to develop sorting, production, and marketing strategies.

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Sort feedlot cattle with confidence

Find the most profitable selling point for each of your animals with TELUS Post Sort Management while optimizing your feedlot’s occupancy and logistics in a cost-effective manner.


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Improve consistency and boost profitability

Market cattle effectively and avoid discounts with TELUS Post Sort Management

Sort feedlot cattle quickly and efficiently with TELUS Dynamic Sorting

Optimize feedlot occupancy based on marketing needs

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Maximize returns with optimal execution of animal health, performance enhancement products and individual animal management strategies from TELUS Feedlot Record Management. 


Use custom marketing models

Sensitivity analysis developed specifically for your operation which takes into consideration how changes in commodity and biological outcomes can affect profitability.


Access  production-cost analysis

TELUS Agriculture experts extract insights from your feedlot’s historical animal health and production data to customize procurement models for your operation.


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Refine procurement and marketing strategies

Our experts conduct detailed economic modeling, including various grid marketing options, to help you make the most profitable marketing decision for each group of animals.


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Evaluate marketing options

Gain a competitive advantage with TELUS Agriculture experts who use historical health, production and carcass characteristic data from your operation to model procurement and marketing.

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Leverage data to buy and sell cattle

Optimize procurement and marketing strategies using data modeling

Utilize operation- and cattle type-specific marketing models

Access your refined cost of production estimates

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Cattle Marketing & Procurement

Maximize your returns knowing TELUS Agriculture experts are monitoring the optimal application of performance enhancement products and execution of protocols through the use of TELUS Feedlot Record Management, tools and training.


Customized feedlot protocol recommendations

Optimize your feedlot production, animal health and carcass characteristic outcomes with customized variable implant protocols, backed by research.


Access to research-backed strategies

Use cost-effective performance enhancement protocols protocols based on cattle type, large-pen commercial field trial data, and our proprietary economic models.

Comprehensive economic modeling, including analyses of various costing scenarios, is conducted using the findings from large-pen commercial field trials to determine the net economic impact.


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Make data-based decisions supported by economic models

Customized protocol strategies, evaluated and validated by our research and economic models, are tailored to your production conditions.

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Implement protocol strategies

Data-based collection and analysis, using TELUS Feedlot Record Management, combined with large-pen commercial field trials and economic modeling to develop customized production and management recommendations.

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Rely on a data-based approach to production consulting

Customized feedlot protocols based on cost effectiveness

Proprietary software for training, monitoring and reporting

Data-informed recommendations from production experts

Strategies developed with research as the grounding principle

Optimize strategies tailored to your operation

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Performance Enhancement Product Protocols

Global data integration and analytic solutions, with emphasis on providing high-quality data to answer the research questions important to your business.

Research solutions

Our team supports informed decision making by developing and testing industry leading data collection platforms and data management solutions to fit your needs.

User-friendly data collection and storage tools

Conduct studies where they matter most: in commercial feedlots and calf growers to accurately reflect relevant animal behaviour, environments and management practices. 

Conduct relevant research

Whether you are looking to formally evaluate health, nutrition or production interventions, or to pilot new technology, our GrowSafe and replicated small-pen studies can help.

Customized small-pen studies 

Conduct your research with a team knowledgeable in animal welfare standards, study design, field implementation, data quality control, and results interpretation track record.

Robust research implementation standards

Receive insights from TELUS Agriculture’s collaborations with academic institutions, independent research firms and government agencies to provide information on important industry topics.

Publicly-funded research

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