Advances in the laboratory methods for defining what feeds bring to the table in terms of nitrogen availability, intestinal digestibilities, and rates of passage. As we have drilled down into animal requirements and increased our precision and accuracy of animal...
The new release of AMTS.Cattle™.Pro is an implementation of the CNCPS v 6.5 biology which enacts changes to equations reflective of the most current research on various inputs in the model. The primary changes are in the way we handle fiber digestion and nitrogen. The...
The second area of fiber digestion we will discuss is uNDF. Fiber digestibility is very important to building dairy rations. We use it to classify forages; it is critical for determining DMI. Fiber levels of feed help us know rumen fill, rumination needs, and animal...
December 17, 2014 A Post By Thomas P Tylutki PhD Dpl ACAN,President AMTS LLC The evolution of the CNCPS continues. Moving from 6.1 to 6.5 biology introduces a series of changes. These include: Adopting aNDFom When available, using a multi-time pointNDFD to calculate...
A task of many years and long in coming, Cornell Publishing Services has made available through the Cornell Store The Detergent System for Analysis of Foods and Feeds by Peter J. Van Soest, editors: M.E. Van Amburgh, P Uden, and P Robinson. You can order your copy by...
Make back-ups of your farm files and feedbanks before you install version 4.0. If you have 2 computers, it is a good idea to install this version on just one computer. Leave the bulk of your farms in version 3.5. Bring over one test farm into version 4.0. This way you...
