Grain States provides both Soy Best and cottonseed in his commodity mix - ingredients a former grain elevator wouldn't provide. When you put all that together, and Soy Best is part of the mix, that's what's made Thiele Dairy successful. The whole program is the reason we stay with Grain States. Anytime the cows go off-feed we wonder if its something with the Soy Best, it always come back to something we've done on the farm. While the 250-head herd does well on Soy Best, the high bypass expeller soybean meal is not the only reason the Thieles have relied on Grain States Soya, Inc., for all their feed needs.
Service is key.
Thiele Dairy relies on Grain States Soya to deliver a consistent, quality product on time. There's never been a time, in the three or four years since going with Grain States Soya, that the cows have been without feed. It's that guarantee of service that has allowed Ron to do away with all commodities on the dairy and concentrate on what pays the bills - taking care of the cows. They give us a fair price. We don't have shrink.