In Spring 2025, we opened our state-of-the-art moist feeds production site at our Aspatria Mill in Cumbria, supplying high-quality moist feeds across the country, delivering to farms across the UK.
The traditional moist byproducts of old, brewers grains, draff and pressed pulp, to name a few all offer an attractive price per tonne when tipped on farm. However, the actual cost of the energy contents, protein or even dry matter per tonne or kilogram is often thrown around and can become quite misleading. This, combined with relentless availability issues have led traditional users to explore a new offering to the market.
What is Brayton Gold? Manufactured, not a byproduct.
Every load is made to order, it is not sitting in a feed bay. Brayton Gold is manufactured for each order, ensuring maximum freshness, shelf life, and nutritional value. One of the biggest challenges with traditional moist byproducts is inconsistency. Variations in dry matter, nutrient density and supply can make rationing difficult and often force nutritionists to chase performance with additional bought in ingredients. When cows receive a ration that changes subtly from day to day, intakes can fluctuate, sorting increases and rumen fermentation becomes less stable, all of which have knock on effects on milk output and components.
Specifically Formulated
It is not like traditional byproducts from other industries. Brayton Gold is manufactured to a fixed specification, every load arrives with the same dry matter and nutrient profile. This predictability allows your NWF Sales Specialist to formulate rations with far greater accuracy, meaning the ration mixed in the wagon is the ration cows consume. A more consistent ration supports steadier rumen function, improved utilisation of nutrients and more efficient milk production.
Incredibly Stable
With a food-grade preservative formulated and blended into the feed, on-farm shelf life is greatly increased, along with improving its stored shelf life. One of the biggest frustrations with traditional moist feeds is their unpredictable shelf life. Loads that look fine when tipped can deteriorate rapidly, especially in warm weather, leading to heating and spoilage. This is where Brayton Gold stands out.
Feeding Brayton Gold
Balanced nutrition is the foundation of productive, healthy and profitable livestock, whether milking cows, growing beef or fattening lambs. This all begins with intakes: how much are they eating, and can I get them to eat more? With homegrown forage being the base for the vast majority of diets, how can we entice the animals to stretch and increase intake levels? Brayton Gold. “We’ve always had pretty good silage, but I can’t believe how the cows go at the silage since the addition of Brayton Gold in the TMR”, commented one Cheshire-based dairy farmer. 
With distillery syrups being one of the main raw materials, the palatability of any feed is increased significantly when Brayton Gold is formulated into a ration. Further to this, the syrups promote better fibre digestion and nutrient absorption by enhancing microbial activity in the rumen. With this, animals can extract more usable energy and protein from forages within TMR diets.
So, on the back of more intake of home-grown forage and extracting more of its value, we see an increase in DLWG, an increase in milk yield and an improvement in milk components. The inclusion of both degradable and undegradable protein sources also helps optimise nitrogen utilisation and supports amino acid supply to the small intestine, improving milk solids and overall cow fertility markers.
With milk prices looking less favourable in recent times, dairy farmers are looking to produce more from less, hence increasing the value of every litre by pushing for butterfat and protein value must be considered. Go in the drawer, pull out the milk price payment schedule and check, can you maximise your price per litre? Are you taking advantage of component bonuses?
For further information on feed Brayton Gold or to book your first load, speak to your local NWF Sales Specialist.