Owner LV / 2024 (January)
High-quality and complete fodder is a very difficult issue for many farms this year. How to balance productivity, livestock health and economic aspects, SIA explains Baltic Agro animal nutrition specialist Sandra Bräke.
– What has been your path in the livestock industry and how did you get to SIA Baltic Agro?
– I have always liked animals very much, but to be honest, I chose the livestock industry because of horses. Although I was from Riga, I decided to study animal husbandry – so that I could work with horses. I got my secondary vocational education in animal husbandry at the Smiltene Technical School, and it provided a very valuable basis for further studies and careers. After the technical school, I entered the Latvian Academy of Agriculture (now the Latvian University of Biosciences and Technologies), graduated from the Faculty of Zooengineering.
After graduation, I worked for a short time at a scientific research institute Sigra in Sigulda, but life took such a turn that I did not work in my specialty for a few years after that. I realized that horses are becoming more and more pets and an expensive hobby, so for the future development of my career in the direction of animal husbandry, I need to change my emphasis.
In my opinion, dairy cows are the most important agricultural animal in Latvia, so at some point I decided to associate my future professional activity with them as much as possible. When I returned to the industry, I worked in various veterinary drug sales companies, then in animal feed sales. In parallel with work, I devoted a lot of time to learning the latest information in the industry, I learned to calculate feed rations according to current requirements. I have been an animal feed specialist for three years now Baltic Agro.
– What is your daily life like? Baltic Agro?
– My main responsibility in the company is to provide informational support to the customers of our factories located in Tukum and Saldu (ex. Tukuma Stream and Sweet Cereal), in the selection of the produced combined feed. I advise farmers by phone and e-mail, I go to farms so that I can express an opinion from the outside about what should be changed in feeding and keeping cows on the particular farm, including the selection of the composition of supplementary feed.
Baltic Agro long-term cooperation with customers is very important, so we are all interested in immediately helping to find the best solution.
For regular customers, we also offer silage sampling and sending it for laboratory analysis. I added comments to the analysis results about the quality…
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