Grimmius Cattle Company: Caregiving is Job #1 For more than 50 years, Tom Grimmius has been involved in the beef side of the livestock industry ... feeding, buying and selling quality cattle in California s San Joaquin Valley. The growing dairy industry during that time caused Tom, and now three of his four children, to focus on a very important niche in the dairy and beef industries. They accept day-old calves and nurture them with specialized care through the first months of life. Heifer calves are custom-raised and then returned to their home dairies for further development. The bull calves are moved to pasture for backgrounding and continued feeding at Grimmius and partner feeding facilities or sold to feedyard operations. The Grimmius Cattle Company is led by a team of Tom s children, Randall, Sharmae and Eric. Randall, who leads all cattle operations, says that the focused attention on the health and well-being of the youngest baby calves began very early in his life. "Dad would bring home baby calves and we were responsible for taking care of them," said Randall. "From the time we were 10 years old through high school, we learned the responsibility of caring for life, the work ethic that s required and the economics of the cattle industry." Those values are also required of their partner dairies. "We look closely at the dairies for common values and philosophies," said Randall. "We want to work with progressive dairy producers who are interested in calf performance, health and quality. They find this service valuable, allowing us both to work together better and improve our businesses. We don t just take on anyone." Attention to detail is obvious from the day calves are picked up from more than 45 dairies. For the first two months, calves receive care in individual living areas then are placed in community housing where they can interact with their peers before being returned to their home dairy at approximately four months of age. Veterinarians and professional nutritionists oversee the care and feeding along with a team of long-time employees. Managing the needs of many unique animals is made possible using electronic ID technology. Like the wristband given to a baby in the hospital, baby dairy calves have their original dairy identification and are also given an Allflex HDX High Performance EID tag so that individual production and performance data can be shared as the animal progresses during their time at Grimmius. "We tried different tags when we first explored EID and we ve been very happy with how the Allflex tags perform," said Randall. "We needed tags that consistently work and Allflex delivers." Calves are scanned with an Allflex handheld reader when they arrive and then are scanned through an Allflex panel reader alleyway (designed and installed by the Allflex Technical Team) when they leave. According to Sharmae, their system of individualized care and feeding of the calves and the ability to track all of the performance data a dairy producer needs, gives owners the confidence their calves are receiving proper care. Sharmae handles inventory management, purchasing and marketing responsibilities for the operation.
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