Save Money with the Mineral Booking Program — Order by February 29

Viafield's annual RangeLand® mineral booking program can save you money this season. Viafield offers a wide range of high-quality minerals for cows at all life stages and is offering a discount on minerals booked during February.

For more information and to book your minerals, please contact Mike Kirby, 563-419-9522 or mkirby@viafield.com, or Matt Pearson, 641-832-0232 or mapearson@viafield.com.

Elgin Mill Receives HACCP Certification

Viafield Achieves Internationally Recognized Food Safety Certification

As part of its commitment to food safety and feed quality, Viafield's feed mill in Elgin, IA, has passed an intensive certification process. HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) certification is a systematic, preventive approach to food safety that has long been recognized internationally as a tool for adapting traditional inspection methods to a modern, science-based, food safety system. 

Developed in the 1960s by Pillsbury for the design and anufacture of food for NASA space flights, HACCP is now used to identify  potential food safety hazards, so that key actions can be taken to reduce or eliminate the risks posed by those hazards. The system is used at all stages of food production and preparation processes. HACCP systems are required for meat, seafood and juice but are currently voluntary in other food/feed industries.

Why did Viafield start this system at our feed mill? Safe feed = safe food. Humans are at the top of the food chain. As a result, we're vulnerable to pathogens, drugs, and contaminants consumed by the animals we eat. We chose the HACCP method because it goes beyond traditional "produce and test" quality
control programs.

HACCP is a written food/feed safety plan that documents and describes the procedures used by our facility - receiving, production, delivery, etc.  An analysis of hazards that are "known or reasonably foreseeable" was completed for Viafield's feed operation. Potential hazards included chemical (pesticides and drug residues), biological (mycotoxins), and physical (plastic and metal) hazards. Once the hazards were identified, written procedures were put in place to prevent or minimize these hazards from contaminating the feed produced at Viafield.  After completing our written plan, training our employees and conducting an internal audit of how the plan was working, we contracted with SGS, the world's largest quality control and inspection company, to audit our HACCP system and verify that it is working as intended. On August 8-10, Viafield passed the SGS certification audit.

HACCP is a continual process that requires Viafield to reanalyze and update our food/feed safety plan. Our Elgin feed mill is our first facility to implement the HACCP system, and we will be evaluating when we will implement it at our other facilities in our commitment to producing safe, quality feed products for our producers.  

ColdFront is here! Viafield now has Cow's Match® ColdFront^TM formula - calf milk replacer with the weather in mind.

Click here to learn how you can help your calves face challenges associated with colder weather.

On August 9, Viafield broke ground for a mill expansion at Elgin.  Currently the mill manufactures about 500-600 tons of feed each day.  With the expansion, manufacturing capacity will nearly doule to 1000+ tons per day, since we will be able to manufacture it more efficiently.

In the picture to the left, the concrete walls are going up on September 2.