GREENFIELD, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Performance Livestock Analytics, Inc. (PLA) and Elanco Animal Health
Incorporated (NYSE: ELAN), today announce an agreement to provide joint
customers data from PLA’s fast-growing Performance Beef TM platform
and access to Elanco’s Benchmark ® service. This alliance is
designed to deliver continuous, real-time data to help cattle producers
optimize their practices and products, paving the way for improved
profitability.
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“The access, analysis, and interpretation of animal production and
health data are essential to optimizing performance in today’s livestock
operations,” said Chris Chavis, Vice President, Elanco US food animal
operations. “The integration with Performance Beef will help feedlots
and farmer-feeders introduce greater performance predictability and
improved efficiency into their feeding programs.”
Elanco’s Benchmark service converts data into information to help beef
producers identify strengths, opportunities and niches to pursue and
measure improvements over time.
PLA’s cloud-based Performance Beef platform helps producers optimize
cattle nutrition by automating the measurement, analysis, and reporting
of financial and operational data to ensure better feed management. The
combination of PLA’s Performance Beef platform with Elanco’s Benchmark
service will allow producers to continually analyze cattle and business
performance data and identify actionable strengths and weaknesses that
impact profit and loss in real-time.
“Our Performance Beef technologies provide livestock producers with the
state-of-the-art analytics and real-time information they need to
optimally manage their livestock,” said Dane Kuper, PLA CEO. “And now,
Performance Beef customers will better understand the practices and
products that will help optimize feedlot performance by allowing
producers to compare their performance to regional benchmarks through
Elanco’s Benchmark service.”
Performance Beef is the leading business operating system in the
livestock industry, a software subscription service that helps livestock
producers automatically capture feed and veterinary information
essential to maximizing profitability. Performance Beef provides simple,
easy-to-use software apps that allow livestock producers to manage all
financial, operational, and performance data relative to their cattle
operations.
About Elanco Animal Health Incorporated
Founded in 1954, Elanco provides comprehensive products and knowledge
services to improve animal health and food-animal production in more
than 90 countries around the world. We value innovation, both in
scientific research and daily operations, and strive to cultivate a
collaborative work environment for more than 5,800 employees worldwide.
Together with our customers, we are committed to raising awareness about
global food security, and celebrating and supporting the human-animal
bond. Our worldwide headquarters and research facilities are located in
Greenfield, Indiana.
About Performance Livestock Analytics Inc.
Performance Livestock Analytics provides software subscription services
to livestock producers, brokers, risk managers, nutritionists, animal
health and animal nutrition companies. Performance BeefTM is
a product of Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. For more information
please visit www.Performancelivestockanalytics.com
©2018 Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. All rights reserved.
Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. (PLA), Performance Beef and any
other PLA products and services mentioned herein, as well as their
respective logos, are trademarks or registered trademarks of PLA.
Forward-looking Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements (as that term is
defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) about
the agreement between Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. and Elanco
Animal Health Inc. and reflects Elanco’s current belief. However, as
with any agreement, there are substantial risks and uncertainties. Among
other things, there can be no guarantee that the collaboration will be
commercially successful. For further discussion of these and other risks
and uncertainties, see Elanco’s most recent filings with the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required by law,
Elanco undertakes no duty to update forward-looking statements to
reflect events after the date of this release.
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Elanco Animal Health Inc.
Keri McGrath
1-317-370-8394
mcgrath_happeks@elanco.com
Performance Livestock Analytics Inc.
Dane Kuper
1-641-420-9944
dane@cattlekrush.com
Source: Elanco Animal Health Incorporated and Performance Livestock Analytics, Inc.