Intervet and Professional Cattle Consultants Collaborate to Offer Business Solutions

Partnership provides cattle feeders with management tools to enhance operation productivity

Intervet Inc. and Professional Cattle Consultants (PCC) have collaborated to leverage their product and service offerings to bring cattle feeders enhanced business solutions to stay ahead in an ever-evolving industry.
Intervet, a global leader in animal heath, and PCC, an independent consulting firm offering customized production, procurement and marketing data for commercial cattle feeders, recently announced the partnership, which will allow Intervet customers to receive exclusive, unbiased information on their feedyards, making it possible to identify, segment and improve specific areas within their operation.

“With each passing year, cattle feeders are increasingly pressed with the demands to adhere to diligent animal-health and business-management practices in order to maintain a level of productivity and profitability in this rapidly changing business,” says Jim Miles, Intervet Marketing Manager for Beef Cattle Performance Technology Products. “Intervet understands and is committed to helping cattle feeders improve their business, and is proud to partner with PCC to offer Intervet customers free, valuable, and unbiased information they need in order to make informed and meaningful decisions about their operation.”

Miles says PCC’s 30-year history of providing sound business-management solutions to cattle feeders complements Intervet’s reputation of delivering proven cattle performance services and products, including Intervet’s portfolio of Revalor® implants.

Through the partnership with PCC, Intervet customers can gain access to PCC’s database, which currently represents more than two-million-head capacity made up of more than 68 contributing feedyards, to review and compare how their operation measured up to similar feedyards in closeouts, seasonal trends, historical performance and other relevant data.

“PCC has a 30-year track record built on managing accurate, meaningful and helpful performance benchmarks to cattle feeders all over the world to help them track their progress and future,” says Tom Tippens, President, PCC. “Our straightforward, unbiased approach to collecting data has enabled us to track the status of more than 100 million head of cattle, which we then make available to PCC subscribers in a variety of simple and convenient formats depending on the need of our clients.”

Tippens adds that the PCC provides:

• Collective data from a third-party, unbiased supplier
• Confidential report viewed only by subscribing client unless released by client
• Reports on all closeouts
• Two exclusive annual surveys on feed markup and salary and feedyard operational cost
• Exclusive Intervet Cattle Performance Ratio

“More cattle feeders are forced to play the dual role of business and operations manager, which is why Intervet strives to be a source they can turn to for animal-health and business-management solutions,” explains Miles. “Intervet’s alliance with PCC illustrates how industry partners can work together to bring meaningful technology and information directly to our customers.”

Adds Tippens: “It’s rewarding to see customers enhance their operation’s productivity as a direct result of the information we provide. Intervet recognizes the value of PCC, and we’re proud to see Intervet make the investment in PCC to help its customers have the tools they need to make sound business-management decisions.”
For more information on PCC and to find out if your cattle-feeding operation qualifies for an Intervet sponsorship, call your local Intervet Sales Representative or 1-800-441-8272 to locate a representative near you.

About PCC
PCC (www.pcc-online.com) has been providing feedlot performance benchmarking data to feedyards for more than 30 years. The company’s focus is exclusively on managing data for the beef industry and repackaging the data to provide clients with information they can use to improve feeding performance and ultimately improve the profitability of the feedyard. PCC has closeout data on over 100 million head and a current database that represents more than two million head of feeding capacity from more than 68 contributing feedyards. PCC offers a variety of services to its subscribers, which includes the PCC Newsletter, Cattlegram, Surveys and Comparative Analysis. For more information about PCC, call 1-580-772-1987 or email info@pcc-online.com

About Intervet
Intervet Inc. (www.intervetusa.com) is an affiliate of Intervet International bv, one of the world’s leading animal-health companies and currently ranked third among global animal-health suppliers. The company is a leader in research and dedicated to the development, production and marketing of innovative, high-quality animal-health products, such as Vista™, Vision®, Once PMH® and NeoGuard® vaccines; Revalor® implants; and Safe-Guard® dewormer. Intervet International currently employs around 5,000 personnel and maintains a global distribution network of subsidiary companies and agents in 120 countries. Vista, Vision, Once PMH, NeoGuard, Revalor and Safe-Guard are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intervet Inc. or an affiliate.