Key Business Partners
GARDNER SMITH GROUP
The Gardner Smith Group of companies offers a diverse range of products and services. Each business, operating individually or coordinating with its associate companies, provides our customers the best service and quality, and our shareholders the best possible returns.
New Zealand Feed Manufactures Association – NZFMA
As a member of NZFMA, Advanced Feed utilises the information and supports the research NZFMA is undertaking. This includes following the codes of practice in manufacturing pelletised stock feed and for milling grains and blending. The NZFMA also provides statistical information on quantities of feed used in different markets.
Vitec Nutrition Ltd
Vitec have a range of Professional Animal Nutritionists covering equine, pig, poultry and ruminants. Advanced Feed uses their expertise to formulate the diets for our quality range of livestock feed. Vitec nutritionists are available to meet with our clients on your farm for one to one consultation on all aspects of animal nutrition.
Philip Wareing Transport Ltd
Philip Wareing Transport is the main cartage company we use for the delivery of our quality products. One of the key factors that has lead us to Wareings is the emphasis on excellence, their ability to meet change (putting 2 blower trucks on for delivery of feed) and their willingness to go the extra mile for customers. They cart our bulk feed and 1 tonne loads of calf feed directly to the farm.
Dairy Business Centre NZ Ltd
Dairy Business Centre (DBC) is a relatively new company to New Zealand, but it brings feeding strategies used in Australia for the past 10 -12 years to our shores. The feeding system involves using high quantities of grains and proteins as well as maximising grass growth and utilisation. This system can involve feeding 6 kgs of grain blend to cows on a daily basis, producing milk yields above 600 kgs milk solids per cow per year.
WRIGHT FARMS
Previous owners of Advanced Feed still remain key grain suppliers to Advanced Feed and the Advanced Feed mill is surrounded by Wright Farms.