Farming Video | Can Adding Zinc to Rye Boost the Nutrition in Your Beef?

29 Oct 25 • 1m 30s

Kelly Garrett is out in the field, using winter wheat and rye to take forage nutrition up a notch. After early corn harvest, he's spraying fertility with a focus on zinc—hoping to naturally boost the zinc levels in his cattle feed and, in turn, the meat. It’s all part of a bigger nutrient density push that ties crop decisions directly to beef quality.

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00:00:00 Hi, this is Kelly Garrett from Extreme Ag. The 26 cropping season is underway. We're out here in one of our fields 00:00:06 where we had early harvested corn that went to the feedlot, and now we've put winter wheat out here. 00:00:11 When Stephen gets done spraying in this field, we're gonna go onto to the rye field, which is just a mile up the road. 00:00:16 We're putting out some nitrogen, some sulfur, we're course putting out some BioE, and we're also putting out full tech zinc from spray tech. 00:00:24 We had some extra zinc left around this year, and through our nutrient density journey, we have identified that we need to get more zinc in the meat. 00:00:31 Zinc is in an expensive supplement to put in the bunk to put in the feed wagon. We're trying to see if we can grow it. 00:00:37 So now when we are applying foliar fertility to any forage crop, be it corn silage or the oats, we're gonna bail, um, the the rye, 00:00:46 we're gonna bail the sorghum, we're gonna bail. We're not putting out zinc or other nutrients, just only necessarily from a agronomic 00:00:53 standpoint trying to raise a crop. We're trying to think about the feed that we're going into the cattle, so we're trying 00:00:57 to infuse a higher rate of zinc into this rye that will then be expressed in the cattle and expressed into the meat. 00:01:04 Again, as part of the nutrient density journey, we'll see if we can improve those numbers. If you go to the GLC beef website 00:01:10 and go into the news tab, you can look at my nutrient density report that I got from Utah State. 00:01:15 You can see that we had a great amount of calcium in there relative to the rest of the database. Now we're trying to see can we raise our zinc, 00:01:22 our zinc numbers were average 00:01:23.475 --> 00:01:24.695

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