When Skylar Stiefvater needed help changing the shape of her Hereford Steer, Stanley, her mom, Carie, reached out to Form-A-Feed’s dealer Central Farmer’s Coop. With the help of Austin Langemeier, Skylar and her steer ended up winning Grand Champion Hereford Steer at the 2024 South Dakota State Fair.
Langemeier recommended the Show Day Show Feed products, Grand Finale and First N’ Goal to help maintain her steer’s weight while transforming his shape. In a matter of four weeks, the Hereford steer made a major transformation. Her steer’s rib shape, depth body and overall mass changed dramatically. Skylar and Carie noted that they didn’t change anything else with Stanley besides the switch to Form-A-Feed products.
“If you set out his mixed ration, Stanley will pick through his feed to find the First N’ Goal”
Skylar has always dreamed of having a Grand Champion Steer at the state fair, and it is easy to see the excitement in her eyes as she retells the story.

Hydro-Lac reduces my shrink, keeps cattle on feed and eating.

My treatment pulls have been minimal since using Stress Lic tubs.

Cattle do well on Hydro-Flexx. The added weight is visible on the animals.

We appreciate the product flexibility and convenience offered with Form-A-Lic tubs. Knowing our cow herd receives a nutrient dense product with consistent intakes makes these tubs a great management tool.

Trent Thoennes is on his third year of feeding Form-A-Feed products to his small beef herd. Two specific products Trent has had luck with are the Encompass Mineral Lic with DE-G and Tend-R-Leen 525. Trent said since he has started on the Encompass Mineral Lic 2 or 3 years ago, he has not had any issues with pink eye in his herd. Since he has started using Tend-R-Leen 525, his calves are weaning better and they are finishing faster and blocking up quicker at a younger age. Trent says, “It’s been pretty awesome” since he has switched.

Cattle fill out very nicely before we market them. I’ve used Hydro-Lac for eight years. We feed one pound per head daily for two consecutive days before we market our cattle. After further discussion with my Form-A-Feed representative, I will consider using Hydro-Lac during times of heat stress too.

I am a firm believer in Stealth 5 and so are my customers.

“After we switched to Tend-R-Leen, our cattle have been averaging 4 lbs rate of gain a day where before it was around 2.5 lbs a day. Some cattle were even up to 5 lbs a day. We’re very excited. It was like getting back on the saddle again.”

Steve values the importance of rate of gain to his operation. “It’s the only number that counts. Your feed helps us a lot to achieve those goals. We were not supposed to finish a group of cattle until October, but we were able to finish them in August due to the increased rate of gain. The cattle grew quick.”

Logan also explained that the cattle seem healthier on Tend-R-Leen and the Tend-R-Leen pellets are much better quality with much less fines than the previous pellet they had been using.