WESTMINSTER PASTORAL COMPANY
Associated with the land since 1841
THE COMPANY
Westminster Pastoral Company, a proud family business at the forefront of agricultural innovation for over 25 years.
Based in Linton, Victoria, we specialise in manufacturing high-quality, unique formulations that support profitable and sustainable farming practices across Australia.
Westminster Pastoral Company products are utilised by trained consultants who provide on-farm services. Westminster Pastoral Company products continue to promote positive results. Our continued research and development ensure our Mighty Min® supplements for livestock and Watchet-gro® liquid nutrients, remain at the leading edge of Agriculture.
Australia’s ancient landscape, weathered over millennia, has left soils depleted of essential trace elements vital for livestock optimal digestive function and crop health. Westminster Pastoral Company products replenish these crucial minerals, offering them in a protected form that ensures maximum availability and absorption.
Technology Behind Our Products
Formulations to Cover Farm Livestock Mineral Deficiencies
Australia’s ancient landscape, weathered over millions of years, has led to nutrient-depleted soils that necessitate the use of supplements for optimal livestock health. Over the past 20 years, we have perfected a unique technology centered on Organic Chelation. This process leverages the distinctive properties of special low molecular weight lignosulfonates in solution with metallic ions.
This innovative technology has allowed us to create numerous closely guarded formulations, forming the backbone of our exceptional product range.
Our products are designed to specifically meet the mineral needs of farm livestock, ensuring optimal health and productivity.
Advanced Animal Nutrition Technology for Australian Farmers
Harnessing the Power of Organic Chelation
Australia’s varied landform poses unique challenges for farmers, especially with nutrient-poor soils. To tackle these challenges, Westminster Pastoral Company has developed advanced technology to improve livestock nutrition.
How it works
Mighty-Min® incorporates specially modified lignosulfonates, which are natural compounds, to bind essential trace elements like copper, cobalt, selenium, zinc, manganese, and iron.
These lignosulfonate-bound trace elements are protected from being broken down by the microbes in the rumen (the first stomach compartment in ruminants), preventing waste through excretion. The unique formulation allows these trace elements to bypass the rumen, ensuring they reach the abomasum (the fourth stomach compartment) and small intestine where they are most effectively absorbed.
Tailored Mineral Supplements
for Livestock & Pets
Product Range
Mighty-Min® offers a range of specialised mineral supplements designed to meet the unique nutritional needs of various animals. Based on a master formulation, each product is tailored to suit specific species and conditions.
Packaging Options
All Mighty-Min® products are available in six convenient sizes: 2.5 litre, 5 litre, 10 litre, 20 litre, 200 litre, and 1000 litre IBC containers, ensuring flexibility and convenience for any scale of operation.
About Us
Westminster Pastoral Company is committed to advancing agricultural practices with innovative HIGH-QUALITY PRODUCTS. Our Mighty-Min® range exemplifies our dedication to meeting the nutritional needs of various animals, ensuring their health and productivity.
Mighty-Min® 6.5
Designed for a broad range of animals including sheep, cattle, goats, alpacas, other ruminants, and swine. This versatile formulation addresses the common mineral deficiencies in these species, promoting overall health and productivity.
Mighty-Min® 8.5
Specifically formulated for cattle, providing a concentrated dose of essential minerals tailored to their unique nutritional requirements. This specialised product supports optimal growth, reproduction, and overall vitality in cattle.
Mighty-Min® For Horses
Developed specifically for horses, this formulation ensures that equine dietary needs are met, promoting strong bones, healthy coats, and enhanced performance.
Mighty-Min® for Dogs
Crafted to keep working dogs in peak condition, this product supports muscle function, stamina, and overall health, ensuring your dogs remain active and healthy.
Mighty-Min® 6.5
Formulated to be suitable for all Ruminants
Mighty-Min® 6.5 manufactured by Westminster Pastoral Company is a supplement for sheep, cattle, goats & alpacas, to increase dietary intake of certain trace minerals where intake by livestock may be low, resulting in increased digestive function of ruminants and improved pasture utilisation, and improvement in general health. MightyMin® employs a unique chelation process to assist in mineral uptake.
Mighty-Min® 8.5
Formulated for CATTLE ONLY – Extra Copper
Mighty-Min® 8.5 Extra Copper is a supplement for CATTLE ONLY.
Copper is an essential part of a number of enzymes present in both sheep and cattle. Cattle have a significantly higher requirement for Copper than sheep, hence the development of Mighty Min Extra Copper for Cattle.
MightyMin® Extra Copper for Cattle is a nutritional formulation for inclusion in the animals feed or water.
Understanding the impact of Mighty-Min® liquid mineral supplements for Sheep & Cattle
Supporting Overall Health and Vitality
Mighty-Min® delivers essential trace minerals like Zinc, Manganese, Selenium, Magnesium, Iodine, Copper, and Cobalt, crucial for various physiological functions in livestock. These minerals play pivotal roles in enzyme systems, immune function, and overall metabolic processes. For instance, Zinc is vital for skin integrity and wound healing, while Selenium supports antioxidant defences against oxidative stress, contributing to overall health and vitality in animals.
Enhancing Reproductive Health
Essential minerals like Copper and Selenium provided with the supplementation of Mighty-Min® are associated with reproductive outcomes in livestock, being known to influence fertility and reproductive health in both males and females. Copper supports proper estrus cycles and conception rates, while Selenium contributes to sperm quality and embryo development, ultimately helping to maintain herd fertility.
Improving Digestive Efficiency
Magnesium, for example, is essential for rumen function and helps regulate acid-base balance, crucial for efficient digestion of feed. This contributes to improved nutrient absorption and utilisation, supporting overall growth and productivity in animals.
Promoting Skin and Coat Health
Copper and Zinc are vital for skin and coat health in cattle and sheep. These minerals are integral to keratin synthesis, which is essential for maintaining the integrity and appearance of the skin and coat. Animals supplemented with these minerals often exhibit healthier coats with improved luster and color, indicating their overall well-being.
Enhancing Immune Function
Trace minerals like Selenium and Zinc play critical roles in immune function. Selenium supports the production of antioxidant enzymes that protect cells from damage caused by free radicals, thereby bolstering the immune response. Zinc is involved in immune cell proliferation and function, aiding in the defense against pathogens and reducing the incidence of diseases in livestock.
Supporting Bone and Muscle Development
Minerals such as Calcium, Phosphorus, and Magnesium contribute to bone and muscle development in growing animals. These minerals are essential for skeletal integrity, muscle contraction, and overall structural support, ensuring proper growth and strength in young livestock.
HOW SAFE IS MIGHTY-MIN?
When used as directed at the recommended dosage, Mighty-Min® is non-toxic. Even at doses up to ten times the maximum recommended amount when dispensed into the animal drinking water trough.
Westminster Pastoral Company has not encountered any reported adverse effects in sheep, goats, or cattle since the original version of Mighty-Min® launched in April 1999.
Introducing The Floater Doser
ALL ANIMALS MUST DRINK WATER
Ensuring access to clean drinking water is essential for all farm animals daily. Mighty-Min® liquid mineral supplements, crafted by Westminster Pastoral Company, are formulated to leverage this daily necessity. Dispensing supplements through drinking water allows animals to stay in familiar surroundings without undue stress. This natural, efficient, and effective method ensures consistent supplementation across all four seasons.
The Floater Doser is a portable, inexpensive, reusable dispensing device designed specifically for the metering of Mighty-Min® Supplements into animals drinking water troughs.
Requiring no power to operate, the Floater Doser will float in the water trough and over a 2 to 3 day period dispense the required amount of supplement into the drinking water.
DOSING THE EASY WAY
Being able to provide a mineral supplement to an animal in its drinking water, enables them to remain in their familiar surroundings without causing them unnecessary stress. This method is also the most
natural, efficient and effective way to evenly supplement your animals during all 4 seasons.
The 4th Generation of Effortless Supplementation
The Floater Doser is now in its 4th generation, offering effortless and cost-effective supplementation of Mighty-Min® supplements into animal drinking water troughs. This portable, reusable device requires no power to operate, floating in the water trough over 2 to 3 days. It accurately dispenses the required supplement amount, saving valuable time, money, and eliminating worries associated with manual dosing. With the Floater Doser, animals voluntarily consume the supplement without the need for regular drenching, ensuring convenience and peace of mind for livestock management.
The Floater Doser serves as a dispenser designed specifically for adding Mighty-Min® mineral supplements to animal drinking water troughs. It operates based on the principle of specific gravity, where the Mighty-Min® mixture inside the drum, being heavier than the water in the trough, initiates the dispensing process. As animals consume water, the Floater Doser ensures a continuous replenishment of the mineral supplement into the incoming fresh water.
Constructed primarily from durable plastic materials, the Floater Doser features a single weighted assembly with inlet and outlet conduits. This design remains unaffected by the mineral supplements. The drum is filled to approximately 80% capacity with Mighty-Min® mineral supplement. If necessary, clean water is added to achieve the correct volume. Throughout the treatment cycle, the air volume in the drum remains consistent.
Upon completion of the treatment period, the drum is removed from the trough, and its diluted contents are poured into the drinking water to complete the supplementation cycle. After use, the Floater Doser is rinsed and stored for future applications.
Floater Doser – Why it works
The “FLOATER DOSER” requires no power supply to operate.
Floats in the water trough.
Period of treatment 2 to 3 days depending on the season.
Time between treatments is 5 to 6 weeks.
Both the heavier Specific Gravity Mighty-Min® in the drum and the lighter specific gravity water in the drinking trough commence trying to reach a specific gravity equilibrium. As more clean water enters the drinking water trough to replace that consumed by the animals, the required amount of mineral supplement will be replaced into the incoming fresh water from the Floater Doser.
The floating dispenser has inlet and outlet conduits contained in a single weighted assembly manufactured from mostly plastic material which will be unaffected by the mineral supplements.
The drum type container is partially filled to about 80% volume with the
Mighty-Min® mineral supplement. Should the amount of Mighty-Min® to be dispensed be less than 80% of the drum volume, then clean water is added to bring the drum level up to the correct volume.
The volume of air trapped in the top of the drum will show little variation during the whole of this treatment process.
At the conclusion of the treatment period, the drum is removed from the drinking water trough and its diluted content tipped into the drinking water trough to complete the treatment cycle.
Rinse out and put the Floater Doser away for use the next treatment.
TESTIMONIALS
From Australian MightyMin customers – Names available on request
“We have been using this product for the past three years and there are two reasons why we will continue to use Mighty-Min.
1. The weaning weights of our calves have increased since introducing this mineral supplement into our management program. Our target weight used to be 1kg/day but now 1.25-1.3kg/day is easily achieved. The top weight for 2018 born calves was 387kg at nine months of age.
At a cost of $12 per breeder per year the outlay is far offset by the increase in the sale price of weaner calves and cull cows.
2. Breeding cattle cope better in harsh conditions. Our breeders have continued to perform well despite adverse weather conditions over the last two years. They come out of the winter in strong condition and that is a definite advantage for spring calving. By November their coats are shiny and they are gaining weight.
These traits were not observed prior to using Mighty-Min.”
“The alpacas are so healthy on it. It’s an absolute lifesaver and sure enough no more injections of selenium which they are probably rather pleased about”
“We came across your product when we stayed on a farm who used your product on their cows and were so impressed with the condition of their cattle that we started giving our horses your horse mineral mix.
We have just completed the bicentennial national trail (end of 2015) and our boys were on the minerals for about 1/2 of this trip (5300km from Cooktown QLD to Healesville VIC). The change in the horses when they started the minerals was marked. We noticed an increase in hair growth, they held weight much more easily, and they seemed fitter. We also noticed that some of the horses
faces slimmed down. As they were far Nth QLD born and bred, we believe they had bighead and the minerals helped to remedy this ailment.
This theory we tested again when we picked up my thoroughbred who had bighead after we finished the trip, and lost alot of condition for an unknown reason – turned out he had developed an ulcer. We started him on Minerals, ulcer treatment and a feeding program immediately.
Thank you so much for these minerals! I have told everyone who will listen about them, and they are noticing the difference in their animals as well!”
Why Chelation and what happens in the Abomasum?
When chelated minerals reach the abomasum (the fourth stomach compartment in ruminants), they undergo a process that enhances their absorption. Here’s how it works:
1. Chelation: Chelated minerals are bound to amino acids or organic acids, which makes them more stable and easier for the body to absorb. This binding helps the minerals remain intact as they pass through the digestive system.
2. Acidic Environment: The abomasum has a highly acidic environment, which helps break down the chelated minerals into smaller, more absorbable forms. The acidity also helps release the minerals from their chelating agents.
3. Absorption: Once the minerals are released, they are absorbed through the lining of the abomasum and small intestine. The chelation process ensures that the minerals are in a form that can be easily transported across the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream.
This process is particularly effective because chelated minerals are less likely to interact with other compounds in the digestive tract, which can otherwise inhibit their absorption.
THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
Watchet-gro® foliar sprays are specifically formulated to enhance and correct deficiencies in growing crops or pastures. These products are designed to deliver essential elements in precise ratios necessary for optimal crop or pasture health when soil or foliar deficiencies are identified. They can complement solid NPK fertilisers when needed.
The formulations incorporate elements protected by a sophisticated organic modification process. This process prevents interactions with other elements and soil conditions that could render nutrients unavailable. As a result, maximum nutrient availability and utilisation are achieved, promoting robust growth and health in crops and pastures.
Low molecular weight foliar sprays, such as those produced under the Watchet-gro® label, offer an efficient and rapid method for delivering essential minerals to plants. These sprays are designed to be absorbed directly through the plant’s stomata, the tiny openings on leaves that facilitate gas exchange. The low molecular weight of the nutrients in Watchet-gro® foliar sprays allows them to penetrate these openings more easily and be quickly taken up by the plant’s vascular system.
The unique formulation of Watchet-gro® foliar sprays includes essential minerals in a form that is readily available to plants. This ensures that the nutrients can bypass the soil environment, where they might otherwise become bound to soil particles or subject to leaching, thereby reducing their availability to the plant. By applying these nutrients directly to the leaves, the minerals are absorbed almost immediately through the stomata and transported throughout the plant.
This method of nutrient delivery is particularly beneficial during critical growth stages when the plant’s nutrient demands are high. It helps to address deficiencies swiftly, promoting healthy growth and development. Additionally, foliar feeding with Watchet-gro® can improve the plant’s resistance to stress and enhance overall crop yield and quality, making it an invaluable tool for modern agriculture.
LIST OF WESTMINSTER PASTORAL COMPANY AGRICULTURAL FOLIAR SPRAYS for PASTURE & CROPS.
Organically Protected BORON
Organically Protected CALCIUM NITRATE
Organically Protected COBALT
Organically Protected COPPER
Organically Protected IRON
Organically Protected ZINC
Organically Protected MANGANESE
Organically Protected CALCIUM & BORON
Organically Protected MAGNESIUM & BORON
Organically Protected MAGNESIUM + HUMATES
Organically Protected COPPER & MANGANESE
Organically Protected MANGANESE & ZINC
Organically Protected POTASSIUM + BORON
Organically Protected ZINC + BORON
Organically Protected MANGANESE 5%, BORON 1 %
Organically Protected MANGANESE 5%, MAGNESIUM 2%, BORON 1%
Organically Protected CALCIUM & PHOSPHORUS
Watchet-GRO Bio Fix
Watchet-GRO Premium Seed Dressing
Watchet-GRO Multipurpose 10-2-7
Watchet-GRO Pasture Spray # 5
Watchet-GRO Pasture Spray # 6
Watchet-GRO Humates + Nitrogen + Potassium
Watchet-GRO Fulvic with Lignates
Watchet-GRO N 26% + Fulvic + Trace
Watchet-GRO NPK 15-10-10 + Trace
Watchet-GRO Humates + Potassium + Trace
Watchet-GRO Hay & Silage Booster
Watchet-GRO Nitrogen Booster
Watchet-GRO NK Plus
Watchet-GRO NPK 10-10-10 + Trace
Watchet-GRO Big M for pasture
Watchet-GRO Potassium & Phosphorus
Watchet-GRO Quick Cal + Boron
Watchet-GRO SNT Rapid Sulphur + Trace
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