Recently, I attended a couple of Beef and Lamb field days on the subject of Management of weaner dairy & dairy beef stock. It was surprising and disappointing that the treatment of trace element nutrition by presenters was minimal. Advice ranged from merely stating that feeding stock well will mitigate trace element deficiencies (it does help, but depends on the severity of the deficiency) through to outright hostility to any specific recommendations of the use of trace eleme