Animal Feed Industry
At COVAP our cattle receive feed made from raw materials from the local area or of national origin (65% of the supply), focusing on safety, quality, and service. We produce more than 665 million kilos of animal feed a year, of which more than 283 million kilos are mixtures (dairy cows 80%: small ruminants 20%) and more than 381 million corresponds to pellets (pork 27%; beef cattle 28%; dairy cows; 13.3%; sheep for meat 28.6%).
Our factory
To do this, we have a pellet factory covering 14,000 m2 and an area dedicated to the manufacturing of Unifeed portions covering more than 30,000 m2, with the latest self-driven trolley technology. Our static plant, the world's largest, is fully automated, which means that the dosing, mixing, and production time are all improved.
We are unique
We are UNIQUE, as we are one of the few companies in the world that integrates the production of raw materials with farmers, the feed our cattle receive with our feed production factories, the industrialization of production, and finally, marketing, under the cooperative model with such a significant participatory dimension.
We are innovators
We are INNOVATORS, providing farmers with a line of animal feed that is committed to the environment, both in terms of farming emissions and carbon footprint. We incorporate the latest technology in terms of ingredients, formula, and handling, working continuously on sustainable products at our testing center in order to give our members and customers added value.
The result
We are EXPERTS, with more than 100 professionals in our teams of Technical Services, Nutrition, Grant Management, and Insurance who work day in, day out to help our farmers. Under this model, we market the production of more than 1,000 farmers, of which around 300 work with dairy cows. Proof of the quality of our feed system is the productive yield of our own farms, where we produce over a million liters of cow's milk each day, with the highest yield per cow in Europe, of around 40 l/cow per day. In the production of goat's milk, our farms are also at the forefront of the official milk production control levels.
