25 Ways to Reduce Farm Feed Shrink
Reduce Shrink and Save Money Yes, there are many ways to reduce shrink and you are likely aware of all these ways. But, if you were to take these points and see if you or your employees are doing them, how well would you do? Do you ever check to see that these are being […]
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Managing Risk on the Farm: Knowing Your Margin!
Know your margin: Milk price per cwt minus feed cost per cwt of milk produced (click above for the web site) Jim Paulson What is your margin of milk price minus feed cost? While this is an extremely important number, most dairy producers only have a vague idea of what their margin is. Granted, it […]
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Do It Well!
10 PROCESS SAFETY RULES What we do and how we do it can have significant impact on our own and other lives. When dealing with hazardous substances or processes, we must think first. Process safety management is focused on preventing releases of any substance defined as a “highly hazardous chemical” by the EPA or OSHA. […]
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Intentional Adulteration!
Intentional or Not, That Is The Question. Looking at The Bigger Picture Food Safety and defense involves identifying threats, securing critical control points, determining remedial actions and training. Being aware will help determine what could go wrong. Learning from the past is very important here because food and water contamination is not new. This […]
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FSMA & Produce
Protecting Our Food Supply Summary: The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the most sweeping reform of our food safety laws in more than 70 years, was signed into law on January 4, 2011. It aims to ensure the U.S. food supply is safe by shifting the focus from responding to contamination to preventing […]
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Here is $10,000!
Feed shrink – Economic loss and environmental impacts Randy Pepin Feed waste and losses, commonly referred to as feed shrink, is common to all livestock facilities. Farm raised and purchased forages, grains, and proteins are usually the largest expense item for most livestock farms, so any improvement in feed shrink will have a positive impact […]
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The Art of War In Food Defense
This article is a lead into ThroughPoint’s series on Food Safety and Food Defense. Our focus will be preparing for the United States FDA Food Safety Modernization Act implementation. This article is a reprint and we acknowledge Food Safety Magazine and thank Dr. Norton. The Art of War in Food Defense By […]
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T.H.O.R. Feed
T.H.O.R. Feed: Precise, Fast and Easy To Use Mitigate risk, build trust while saving time and money Gilbert, AZ, September 11, 2016– ThroughPoint Solutions, Inc. announced today their mobile app T.H.O.R. is being modified and used for Farm Feed Inventory. Working with veterinarians and farmers, shrink reduction and loss have been identified as […]
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Resilience
Is your business prepared? ThroughPoint provides risk management. If you have not, you should analyze your organization, supply chain, community and maturity. You will benefit greatly and though not necessary an immediate return, when crisis hits you will be a hero. ThroughtPoint works with may standards and best practices. You should be aware ASIS […]
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T.H.O.R. Windows
T.H.O.R. Windows App Released Mitigate risk, build trust while saving time and money Gilbert, AZ, August 10, 2016– ThroughPoint Solutions, Inc. announced today their first Windows app T.H.O.R. is launched. T.H.O.R. is available for Windows and may be downloaded on the iTunes store. After a successful beta app testing, this all mobile experience […]
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