The Intelact Group
Driving sustainable food production and results for farmers.
Headlands
Headlands provides comprehensive support to its farmer and agribusiness clients, helping them innovate and build resilient, profitable businesses that prioritise both economic and environmental sustainability. With a focus on sustainable farming principles, Headlands helps its clients achieve long-term success through innovative solutions and expert guidance.
Nutrinza
Nutrinza is a specialised provider of custom feed blends for farmers throughout New Zealand. With the ability to create tailored feed options that meet the unique requirements of individual dairy herds, Nutrinza offers a comprehensive range of high-quality animal nutrition products and services to address the diverse needs of farmers across the country during each season.
Intelact
Intelact offers top expertise in profitable and sustainable intensive animal production for dairy and beef feedlot operations, and pasture-based animal production and arable farming enterprises. With experience in arid, tropical, and temperate environments, Intelact provides premium solutions to maximise profitability and sustainability across diverse farming systems.
Nutrinza's history with Intelact
Intelact was formed on the back of farm trials undertaken by a well-known Waikato Veterinarian Soren Moller, who was doing his PhD thesis on “the cow and pasture interface” in the early 1990’s.
Soren's thesis experiment involved feeding molasses to half of a dairy herd to see if it improved conception rates and profitability. Results showed a 50% reduction in empty rates and increased milk production, indicating a positive impact.
Soren found that using a grain-based supplement instead of molasses in a pasture-based system resulted in similar outcomes. The compound feed was supplied for free from NRM Feed Mills in exchange for sharing the results.
Due to the positive results on conception rate and milk production, NRM and Tegel Foods wanted to supply feed to the dairy industry. However, they knew they needed farm consultants who understood dairy farm systems and nutrition which led Tegel to establish Intelact Nutrition Company. They hired three consultants in the first year, including Soren Moller himself.
Intelact started with three consultants and 40 dairy farming clients. To meet demand, they increased their consultant numbers to ten for the following year.
Upon financial difficulty, a restructuring within Intelact was considered until the Intelact consultants offered to purchase Intelact from Tegel which was finalised in May 1996.
Intelact began sourcing by-product feeds from the human food industry to find cheaper and more reliable sources of feed that fill in pasture supply gaps. Overtime, the by-product feed part of Intelact grew substantially, leading them to specialise in custom blends where farmers or nutritionists could develop their own blends from a list of ingredients.
Intelact separated its consultant business from the feed supply business, creating Nutrinza (formerly known as SourceNZ). Today, the company has 10 technical sales representatives covering the North Island and one in the South Island.
Today, Nutrinza sells approximately 300,000 tons of feed with approximately 60% of this being sold as a blend through one of our three blending stores in the North Island.
Today Nutrinza sells approximately 300,000 tons of feed with approximately 60% of this being sold as a blend through one of our three blending stores in the North Island.
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Disclaimer
All animal feed products should be fed as part of a healthy balanced diet matched to the specific requirements of the herd. Nutrinza makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the suitability of any of the products supplied to the specific requirements of your animals. Please note that recommended feeding rates are given as a guideline only and will vary based on the total diet and actual feed intake of your animals. It is recommended that you consult your vet, nutritionist or farm consultant before making any dietary changes. Nutritional information is based on accredited feed nutrition sources and sample test results. Specifications on an individual feed test will show some variation.
