The nutritional quality of a large proportion of UK pastures has dropped to a point where, in order to successfully rear stock, it is necessary to provide mineral supplements in the form of mineral buckets, drenches, licks and injections. This is a costly business. A Field Science tailor-made trace element pasture dressing lasts on average for 3 years and wins out on a simple cost/benefit analysis that does not even take into account the benefit to livestock.