Your bakery waste is cattle feed.
We buy bread, chips, tortillas, noodles and other food by-products, picked up at your plant or dropped off at ours, and turn them into feed for Texas cattle.
- Your plantOut-of-spec product, trim, scrap and returns
- Our plant in San AntonioSorted, blended and processed
- Cattle feedersHigh-energy feed instead of a landfill
For bakeries and food plants
Stop paying to throw product away. We pay for usable by-products. We can pick them up at your dock, or you can drop them off at our plant.
Call or email us
Tell us what you make, roughly how much by-product you have and where you're located.
We set the price
Our price is tied to the corn market, so you get a fair rate that moves with feed values.
We get it moving
We spot a trailer at your dock, or you drop loads at our plant. Whichever works for you.
You get paid monthly
Every load is weighed and logged. You get a statement and a check each month.
What we take
- Bread and buns
- Chips and snacks
- Tortillas
- Pasta and noodles
- Ramen
- Flour
- Wet dough
- Nut by-products
- Corn by-products
- Wheat and rice by-products
Not sure if yours qualifies? Call us.
We pick it up
We spot a trailer at your dock and swap it when it's full. Best for steady volume.
You drop it off
Bring loads straight to our plant at 902 Monterey Street in San Antonio, Monday to Friday 8 to 5 or Saturday 8 to noon. Call ahead and we'll have you weighed and unloaded.
Good for the planet, good for your report card
Sending by-products to cattle instead of a landfill is one of the best things a food plant can do for its environmental numbers, and it's simple to show customers, auditors and corporate.
24%
of everything in U.S. landfills is food waste.
58%
of landfill methane comes from that food waste. Methane traps far more heat than CO₂.
Source: U.S. EPA, Quantifying Methane Emissions from Landfilled Food Waste (2023) and Advancing Sustainable Materials Management.
EPA's Wasted Food Scale, simplified, best to worst
- Prevent waste
- Donate or upcycle
- Feed animals That's us
- Compost
- Anaerobic digestion
- Land application
- Incineration
- Landfill
Diversion you can count
Every load is weighed. Your monthly statement shows the tons you kept out of the landfill, ready for sustainability and ESG reporting.
Lower disposal costs
We pay for usable product. A landfill charges you to take it.
A story customers like
"Our leftovers feed Texas cattle" is easy to explain and easy to verify.
For cattle feeders: Bakery Feed Mix
A high-energy, high-fat corn replacement. It's milled to 1″ or less and arrives ready to mix and feed, with no rolling, flaking or grinding.
~16%
crude fat, dry-matter basis. About four times the fat of corn.
| Our bakery feed | Dry-rolled corn | Steam-flaked corn | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crude fat | ~16% | ~4% | ~4% |
| TDN (energy) | ~94% | 88% | ~95% |
| Crude protein | ~10% | ~9% | ~9% |
| Processing before feeding | None | Roll | Steam & flake |
Bakery values from current-year SDK Laboratories (Hutchinson, KS) analysis. Corn values per NASEM Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle (2016). Delivers at ~81% dry matter, under 1% paper and plastic. Best balanced with your nutritionist.
Lab-verified, load to load
Routine analysis through SDK Laboratories. Samples and full lab sheets on request.
Delivered or pickup
Multiple loads a week. We haul to your yard, or you pick up at our plant.
Priced per ton
Call for current pricing and availability.
Talk to Chad
- Phone
- 325-347-2580
- chadcrocker@cacattlebrd.com
- Hours
- Mon to Fri, 8 am to 5 pm
Sat, 8 am to noon
Closed Sunday - Plant
- 902 Monterey Street
San Antonio, TX 78207
Southwest of the Adult Detention Center, off Comal Street.
Email us about your by-products