Ruminations Blog
Our blog is a collaborative effort. Some of the voices are AMTS principals, some are experts who have contracted with us to help clients utilize our products; some are nutritionists from around the world, helping us acquire a global perspective; and some are educators and pioneers in the field.
The Nutritionist 2023 May Tylutki
Dr Tom Tylutki starts off the 2023 The Nutritionist Series with the first in six webinars that focus on heat stress. Find a link to the presentation and recorded webinar after the jump.
FeedBank Manager update: FBM v4
AMTS.FBM has an update, AMTS.FBM v4. It now included NASEM minerals and has the ability to optimize, create custom nutrients and tags. Learn more about it after the jump.
Formulating: The details matter
When formulating diets, sometimes the smallest details make the difference between useful information and head scratching numbers.
The Nutritionist 2022 October Tylutki
listen to the recording of the final AMTS The Nutritionist webinar in our 2022 series focusing on emissions. AMTS CEO Dr Tom Tylutki has thoughts after the jump.
AMTS.Farm version 4.18.1 release including NASEM updates
We have added the NASEM mineral and vitamin changes to the model and updated a few other issues int he program with the release of AMTS.Farm v 4.18.0.1. Read more after the jump.
The Nutritionist 2022 Webinar August 2022 McFadden
Dr Joe McFadden, Assistant Professor at Cornell University and one of the researchers heading up the in-construction climate-controlled respiration chambers for studying emissions at Cornell, talks about methane inhibiting feed additives. See more after the jump.
The Nutritionist 2022 Webinar July Capper Place
We were honored to host two of the biggest voices in sustainable agriculture in the July edition of The Nutritionist. Click “Read More” to access the recording of the webinar on communicating agricultures role in mitigating climate change.
The Nutritionist 2022 Webinar June Mitloehner
We had two terrific sessions with Dr Frank Mitloehner from the UC Davis Clear Center. Find the recording of the webinar and q & a sessions after the jump.
The Nutritionist 2022 Webinar May Block
Dr Elliot Block, Research Fellow and Director of Technology in Animal Nutrition and Food Production, gave a talk on the sustainability and uses of palm oil in dairy diets. He laid out the facts and debunked the myths of feeding palm fats.
The Nutritionist 2022 Webinar April, Van Amburgh
Click below to access the webpage with the recording of Dr Mike Van Amburgh’s presentation including the question and answer session from both April 14 webinars.
AMTS Extra–Tylutki on Feed Costs
We have a discussion of skyrocketing input costs and an indepth look at formulation strategies in this timely webinar. The situation is in flux, this is how it looks today!
AMTS Calendar: Webinars, live casts, Feedbanks, oh My!
There are a lot of events coming up at AMTS. We have a live pricing webinar with Tom next week!
AMTS.FeedBankManager now works with Hybrimin
AMTS.FBM now pulls data in from Hybrimin Mill formulation software
AMTS.Farm minor update and Feedbank Release
Program Update and Feedbank Release This week we released an update to our primary software, AMTS.Farm. The update includes some minor changes to our ruminant formulation program as well as our semi-annual feedbank release. We plan these releases for early Spring and...
AMTS Farm Program update
The newest version of AMTS.Farm is v 4.16.0. This release focuses on bug fixes and improved functionality. Read the blog for more details.
Starch Values in Cooked Ingredients
Research has suggested the WSC method of starch analysis is best suited for capturing all the sugars pertinent to ruminants. Digging deeper on results specifically in cooked ingredients (like bakery by-products, puffed grains) shows this not to be the case. Tom provides insight on why you SHOULD be using ESC values for these products.
The 2021 Sheep Nutritionist Winchell
Follow the Read More link to listen to the archived webinar recording
Tutorial Videos and Webinar Recordings
This winter and spring we have offered trainings, webinars, and many trainings. Catch up on what you have missed!
Nutritionist Extra–Tom’s 20 Questions video
In this Blog we have a short video excerpted from Dr Tylutki’s February 2021 The Nutritionist talk that covers the 20 Questions he asks when doing a herd evaluation.
March Advanced Optimizer Free Trial and Feedbank Release
We have a lot going on in March! We have a pretty full month of possibilities in March for AMTS users and Nutritionist Webinar listeners. We begin the month with a patch release, feedbank update, and the opportunity to trial the new and improved Advanced Optimizer....
The Nutritionist 2021 Feb Tylutki
Dr Tom Tylutki takes us on another farm tour in the inaugural The Nutritionist 2021 webinar. After a very snowy walking of the barns and discussion of the groups, Tom answers questions on his approach to nutritional troubleshooting.
The Nutritionist 2021 Season Roster
We have an exciting season of farm tours traveling, virtually, from North America to Brazil, to Russia, UK, South Africa, France and places in between. Robots and Sheep and many cows! Read more to see the roster.
New Advanced Optimizer Video Tutorial
Tom Tylutki provides insight on using the new Advanced Optimizer included in ao and ao+ AMTS.Farm v 4.16 December 2020 release.
Specialty Feed Suppliers Input page
Suppliers of specialty feed ingredients must now submit feeds for inclusion in the AMTS Commercial Feedbank through an on-line form. Learn more about this service in the following blog.
Installation no longer needs Admin Rights
Installing updates and full program installs is no longer a pain for users without admin rights on computers. No more calls to the IT department!
AMTS.Farm v 4.16 release New Features
There are updates to existing features and new modules added to the Recipe Screen in AMTS.Farm (formerly AMTS.Cattle.Pro). This post explains the updates and links to explanatory video for the Robot/Component Feeding Screen.
White Paper Discussion on aNDFom timepoints
AMTS license holders can read a whitepaper from Dr Tom Tylutki about updates to the CNCPS model (and AMTS) as a result of current understanding of forage NDF degradation rates.
AMTS Announces Opportunity to Trial Small Ruminants
Tremendous Response to special Goat Nutritionist webinars We had a very good response to our two Goat Nutritionist webinars that we held in November and December. Our speaker was Dr Andreas Foskolos, an Assistant Professor in Animal Science at the University of...
The Goat Nutritionist 2020 Part 2
Dr Andreas Foskolos,University of Thessaly on Dairy Goat Nutrition . Dr Foskolos gave the second of a two-part webinar mini-series on dairy goat nutrition on December 10, 2020. This webinar was a follow-up to the initial webinar on November 12, which set up the basis...
CNCPS based AMTS Feedbanks updated
This post shows the feeds included in the updated library and shows how to ensure they are included in your formulation.
The Nutritionist 2020 Traxler
Dr Marty Traxler, AMTS Distributor for Mexico and Columbia shares management strategies to combat heat stress.
AMTS.Farm and GrowingCattle integration video
In a previous post, we promised a video demonstrating the improved integration between AMTS.Farm.Cattle and AMTS.GrowingCattle. Well, we are please to finally have that completed! We hope this helps you understand how to import a diet created in AMTS.Farm.Cattle into...
AMTS.Farm.Cattle easily integrates with AMTS.GrowingCattle
AMTS.GrowingCattle for feedlot/growing animal mangers can pull optimized diets in from AMTS.Farm for additional economic analyses.
Cattle Upcycle Waste Food into Quality Protein
Using byproducts in cattle diets from feed, beverage, and fiber manufacturing is an import tool in improving sustainability for cattle farming.
Get some Facts on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Cattle
The recent Burger King ad featuring methane spewing cows and singing kids in gas masks was a bridge too far for a lot of people in agriculture. Fortunately, we have science and outstanding advocates making sure the facts are available to counter this sort of misinformation.
New Feature: Group Data Import
The new Import Group Data Toll imports herd management information from PCDart, DSP-Herdeplus, DairyComp, etc into the AMTS.Farm cattle screen. Learn how to use it with accompanying video.
GOT MILK?
We have been getting emails and calls from nutritionists whose clients have to dump their milk and are seeking to use it, instead, as a feed ingredient. Dr Tom Tylutki gives some advice on how to do this.
Program User Tip- Importing Feeds Analyses
One of the convenience features of AMTS.Farm is the ability to import a feed analysis as a Standard XML file using the Import Feed Analysis function.
AMTS Academic Use: University of Turin
Stefania Pasinato and Serena Bracco used AMTS.Farm to help in their studies at the University of Turin while studying in the Netherlands. Read a little about their experience.
AMTS.Farm Video Manual–Moving the program to a new computer
This video shows the process for deactivating a license on an old computer, backing up files, and moving to a new computer.
Feedbanks and Adding a New Feed
AMTS.Farm is BIG program. We try to make it easy to use by adding niceties like templates, search bars, quick navigation aids, and the like. One of those features is the ability to create Feedbanks. Lynn wrote the following piece to teach you a little something about Feedbanks.
On-The-Mark-Support
COVID-19 Corona Virus has forced many to change how they live and do business. AMTS is here with enhanced remote support and resources to help you keep feeding cattle and small ruminants in this challenging time.
Feed Pricing Analysis Tool
Some posts are worth repeating! The Feed Pricing Analysis tool will be a great help as you deal with fluxes in feed prices and respond to market changes in milk price. There is a lot of uncertainty out there--use everything you can to give your clients an edge in this...
AMTS.Cattle.Pro v 4.14.0 Release Small Ruminants
AMTS releases version 4.14.0 featuring a small ruminant model for feeding sheep and goats.
Feed Analysis components important for CNCPS based models
Certain feed analysis values are critical to CNCPS based models. Learn more about which nutrients are most important in the model.
Happy Thanksgiving from the AMTS Team
Caroline Rasmussen, shared this message of Thanksgiving with us. It was too good to keep to ourselves.
AMTS Academic Use: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain–Teaching Ruminant Nutrition
Dr Sergio Calsamiglia for the Animal Nutrition and Welfare Service (SNiBA) Department of the School of Veterinary Science at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona guest posts.
AMTS Academic Use: University of the Free State, Republic of South Africa–Teaching Ruminant Nutrition
Dr. Ockert Einkamerer and Lubbe Jacobs teach future nutritionists using AMTS.Cattle.Pro at the University of the Free State in South Africa.
The Nutritionist 2019 Wattiaux
Dr Wattiaux offered an excellent presentation on hie research, in collaboration with UW-Madison Departments of Agronomy and Biological Systems Engineering, on the sources of Greenhouse gas emissions on the Dairy farm and what actions can be taken to mitigate those excretions.
New Website Feature: Video Page
We have been making training videos for years and recently have been extracting clips from our webinars to provide short tutorials on specific topics. We have also created a web-page just for those videos.
AMTS Distributor in Germany: Torsten Huhne
We are very pleased to welcome Torsten Huhne from dsp-Agrosoft GmbH as our newest distributor located in Germany.
Welcome Alex
The AMTS group is growing! We are very excited to welcome Alex Converse to our company.
New Release Featuring Feed Pricing Analysis
AMTS.Cattle.Pro is out as a new release! The official version is 4.11.0.0 and it includes a wonderfully helpful feature called the Feed Pricing Analysis Tool (FPA). This entirely new screen is accessible through either the Feeds screen or by selecting form the Tools...
AMTS Academic Use: Embrapa Brazil
Our Academic Initiative helps instructors teach ruminant nutrition. One of our partners in this work is Bolivar Nóbrega de Faria from Rehagro in Brazil.
The Nutritionist webinars–calf unit
We put a considerable amount of thought into topics and speakers for our global The Nutritionist series.
PDF Blues
If you have gotten a new computer in the past 6 months and downloaded the newest Adobe Acrobat Reader you may be experiencing issues with pdf preview of your reports.
AMTS Academic Use: Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo
Dr. David Vagnoni used AMTS as an integral part of a new course offering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, “Advanced Dairy Nutrition.” This course allows students to really engage in the practical, on-farm aspects of nutrition.
AMTS User Tips: Moving the Program to a New Computer
One of the more frequent support questions we receive as calls or in the support inbox regards moving an existing license to a new computer.
AMTS.Cattle.Pro vs AMTS Feedbank Manager for Feedbanks
Though many AMTS users create and reconcile feedbanks in AMTS.Cattle.Pro (.Pro), AMTS also has a dedicated program to manage feedbanks: AMTS.Feedbank Manager (FBM).
The Nutritionist Webinar Series
Since 2015 AMTS has been co-hosting an educational webinar series called The Nutritionist. The idea can from Marcelo Hentz Ramos, our Brazilian Distributor and the Director of 3rLab in Brazil.
New Feedbank Release: Italian Feedbank
“The new feed library has been translated in the Italian language in order to help AMTS Italian customers in their daily work as nutritionists. The forages chosen to populate the Italian Feedbank come from the AMTS EU feeds, closer to the Italian forages for the analysis on components and fiber digestibility. In addiction, the concentrate were selected based upon composition and 7h starch digestibility.
AMTS at EuroTier
Last week AMTS took on the world at EuroTier 2018 in Hannover Germany. Sam, Tom, Caroline, and I traveled to Germany
AMTS User Tips: Adding a New Feedbank
As mentioned in the previous blog, AMTS has a new EU Feedbank. As Sam explained upon the release of the new EU Feedbank, this regionally specific feedbank is populated with feed analyses values more typical of the feeds farmers in Europe use.
AMTS introduces a new feedbank: AMTS EU Feeds
The AMTS EU Feedbank has been developed to provide our European customers with a feed library that more accurately represents feeds available to European farmers. Over the last 2-3 years, we have been collecting information and we are now rolling it out to you!
AMTS Distributor in Russia: Vadim Bakhchevnikov
We are very pleased to welcome Vadim Bakhchevnikov as our newest distributor located in Russia.
Adjusting Inputs for Heat Stress
July and August can bring lots of heat and humidity in North America. Don’t forget the importance of changing some of the barn/lot settings in your AMTS.Cattle.Professional program at this time of year. Heat to a cow is not friendly.
August Webinars: Twice the fun, and then some!
In late June part of the AMTS team went to Knoxville for the ADSA Annual meeting. While Tom and Sam spent time meeting about and delving into deep nutritional questions, Mariann collected speakers for The Nutritionist 2019 and touched base with the balance of the...
Save the Date! January 23-24th 2019 AMTS User Meeting
The dates are picked- we’re packing our bags and headed to Savannah Georgia, January 23 and 24th 2019. We will be going over the latest biology behind all of the AMTS products, go through our NEW products, and send you home with a few tips and tricks.
Pro Video Manual–AMTS.Cattle.Pro File Structure
This video covers the basic file structure, program location, and file sharing abilities of AMTS.Cattle.Pro. You can watch it on-line or go to the AMTS Vimeo page to download.
Meet Vivian
AMTS is excited to welcome Ziwei (Vivian) Wu to our company. She joined the team in May, hired for her excellent abilities in programming, web-based languages, and all-around "we think she will fit" vibe. As Vivian explained to us, in her English language classes in...
Tags integration with Feed Mill Tag in FBM and Pro
Do You Need an Inexpensive Way to Print Federal and State Approved Feed Tags? AMTS.Feedbank Manager is now compatible with Feed Mill Tag software (http://www.feedmilltag.com). Feed Mill Tag software is an on-line tool, created by Medicated Feeds of Belle Plaine,...
New Italian Distributor: Dairy Innovations Italia
We are excited and pleased to announce the addition of a distributor for AMTS in Italy. Dr Elena Bonfante has completed the needed training to support AMTS.Cattle.Pro users. She has been working with us to provide an Italian translation for the program. That feature...
A Present for You! The New Mixes Screen!
The latest release of AMTS.Cattle.Pro features a completely re-vised way of dealing with mixes. The first change was to stop calling compilations of separate ingredients composites and just call them mixes. The reason they have been called composites for years in AMTS...
Software update for Mac users
AMTS.Cattle.Pro is a windows based program that must be run on a virtual PC for our Mac users. Tom and Lynn both run the program on Macs. Tom recently updated to VMWare Fusion released v10 and experienced an issue with his license. Parallels released a new version...
The Nutritionist Webinars–Update–CEU Credits
We are just shy of the halfway point in our year with The Nutritionist 2017. The webinars, thus far, have been very well attended and wonderfully thought provoking. Some of the speakers have presented alternative ways of looking at ruminant nutrition--this is part of...
Features of latest Updates
Shortly, you will receive notice on program opening that there is a new version of .Pro available and asked if you would like to update. It is always a good idea to say “yes” to that question. Two reasons: 1). Sometimes the update fixes a bug. You can save yourself...
Advanced Optimizer Free Trial
Depending on where you are, Your clients are either busy planting or busy harvesting. Maybe this is the perfect time for you to give the Advanced Optimizer a spin... During the month of May, AMTS.Cattle.Pro users can try out a free month of the Advanced Optimizer! We...
DCAD Calculation in AMTS.Cattle.Pro
By Sam Fessenden, AMTS Occasionally we receive questions regarding how the dietary anion-cation difference (DCAD) is calculated within the program. Users will see DCAD outputs displayed on the Min/Vit tab and the Ration Output tab. The calculations are fairly simple,...
The New Veterinary Feed Directive Melanie Hemenway, DVM, NYSCHAP Coordinator Tuesday, March 21, 2017 1:00 pm EDT
The New Veterinary Feed Directive Melanie Hemenway, DVM, NYSCHAP Coordinator Tuesday, March 21, 2017, 1:00 pm EDT Dr. Melanie Hemenway is a State Field Veterinarian for the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets and coordinates the New York State Cattle...
AMTS Hosted VFD Webinar
AMTS is facilitating a WebEx webinar with Dr. Melanie Hemenway, DVM, the coordinator of New York State Cattle Health Assurance Program (NYSCHAP), about the Veterinary Feed Directive that went into full effect throughout the United States as of January 1, 2017. Dr...
Rock River in Europe
A key component of any model based on the CNCPS is the ability to use feed analyses that correlate to the critical feed measurements used in model equations. We have been working with Christiane Brandes and Nils Landwehr of Rock River Laboratory--Europe to facilitate...
Advanced Optimization
Advanced Optimization in AMTS.Cattle.Professional Author: Samuel Fessenden, PhD Overview The advanced optimizer in AMTS.Cattle.Pro uses a genetic algorithm to create, evaluate, and evolve rations that are more cost effective at meeting the nutrient requirements....
AMTS.Cattle.Pro version 4.7 Release
We are especially excited to release the latest version of AMTS.Cattle. This release, officially version 4.7 has a number of functionality improvements. As always, we have created a pdf that opens at program start--make sure you attend to it. You will find that it...
Upcoming Release
Next Tuesday AMTS will release an update to AMTS.Cattle.Pro that we are all quite excited about. This is the first major update since we switched to the on-line registration system last Fall. We are all very excited; some of the changes are VERY big and some are a...
2017 The Nutritionist Kick-off! Barry Bradford
Tomorrow night we will kick off the Third Season of The Nutritionist. Our speaker is Dr Barry Bradford for Kansas State University; his talk is Fiber, Fill, and Fermentability--What Determines Feed Intake in Dairy Cows. Dr Bradford was raised on a cow/calf operation...
Help! or Using AMTS Remote Support
AMTS.Cattle.Pro is a very detailed program, there is a lot of information to enter, some aspects may not be intuitive to all users, and sometimes things go wrong. We provide considerable support through conferences, group and individual live training sessions, and...
Academic use in Brazil, focus on Veterinary School of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Last week we published a blog featuring information from an educationally focused group in Brazil, Rehagro. Our main contacts are Dr Sergio Rubens Soares and Bolivar Nóbrega de Faria. Dr Bolivar has been very kind to supply us with information we can share on our...
AMTS Academic use in Brazil, focus on Uberlândia
Two of our busiest academic users are Dr. Sergio Rubens Soares and Dr. Bolivar Nóbrega de Faria in Brazil. . In their positions as Professors in Rehagro – Recursos Humanos no Agronegócio, they teach many of the nutrition classes in different states of the county. Over...
What is so wonderful about the AMTS Commercial Feedbank
Using the Reconcile function on the Feeds screen is a quick way to update common feeds in all farms. Individual users can create their own Feedbank farm from which they pull their commonly used feeds for all farms to make price changes and nutrient specs quickly...
AMTS Distributors
AMTS is pleased to be a global leader in providing nutrition balancing software. We could not do this without the help of our distributors in various parts of the world. Distributors are responsible as the first line of support within their country. On becoming a...
AMTS Academic: Mary Raeth University of Minnesota
Dr Mary Raeth at the University of Minnesota use the Academic Initiative to assist in teaching ration balancing to her undergraduate class. 2016 is her second year using the program in her classes. In 2015 Mariann and Dr Raeth collaborated in classroom teaching...
AMTS Academic: AMTS Partnership with Fox Valley Technical College
Kevin Rauchholz, instructor at Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, WS, was one of the earliest adopters of the AMTS Academic Initiative. Fox Valley is a hands on technical college what provides take-home management practices for those wishing to immediately join...
Guest Post: Dr Buzz Burhans
When we conceived the Ruminations blog it was intended to be a place where we could further information about ruminant nutrition is addition to articles specifically about our platform AMTS.Cattle.Pro. To that effort we have featured guest posts from The Miner...
Tips and Tricks–How to handle Recipes
It seems like some questions about screen functionality keep recurring. When doing a training, we take pains to explain the Manage Recipes button on the Recipes screen. Invariably, this still provides some consternation. Lynn wrote the following blog to address this...
AMTS Goes to the Big Data Discover Conference
Sam and Caroline were delighted to travel to Chicago to attend the November Discover Conference. They were also in Chicago the night the Cubs won the World Series. Since they were staying in a hotel, Sam said the crowd at the bar was not as exuberant as you might have...
Post From Tom: How I use the New Tree Option in AMTS
By this time, I hope, many of you have tried the new Tree option in the latest version of AMTS.Cattle.Pro. When Vijay first gave me a beta version with it, I was immediately climbing through it to see how I could use it. I have found that it is my new, preferred, way...
ADG as a Tool in Formulating for Lactating and Dry Dairy Cows
Problem We commonly are asked how much ADG to input for lactating and dry dairy cows. Solution The inputted ADG for lactating dairy cows can be viewed two ways. First is thinking in terms of an acceptable safety factors for formulation. The calculations for ADG are...
AMTS New Release, New Website–or Everything Old is New Again
It has been a very busy time for AMTS. There are always ongoing projects, exploration of new ventures, continuing program development, things like that. Rarely have we had so many projects come to fruition in one month as now. At the beginning of the month...
Introducing our Newest Employee: Dr Sam Fessenden
We are very pleased to introduce our newest employee at AMTS—Sam Fessenden. Sam will be joining us in October providing Technical Support, Training, Program Sales, and Marketing as well as project development. A recent PhD graduate of Cornell, Sam brings a very...
AMTS at Penn State Academic Initiative
Mariann took a trip to State College, Pennsylvania to assist two groups using AMTS.Cattle.Pro academically. It was beautiful weather for the drive and she spent an enjoyable time on campus teaching the program. Mariann first met with Dr. Alex Hristov’s...
Introducing Astrid Steed-Hughes
Many of you may have already had some contact with Astrid Steed-Hughes, who serves as Administrative Assistant and is responsible for the day to day office operations at our headquarters. Astrid began at AMTS in late March. If you felt the world was just a little...
AMTS Academic Initiative: Bolivar Nóbrega de Faria
Rehagro is a professional training company which teaches courses in various agricultural fields in Brazil. They teach use the CNCPS model through AMTS to teach graduate level ruminant nutrition courses. AMTS provides the AMTS.Cattle.Pro program for teachers,...
Guest Post—Will Gratwick: Dairy Farming in the Developing World
Agricultural Modeling and Training Systems has always striven to provide more than just software. We have a strong commitment to ensuring that our users have the tools that they need to help them succeed in feeding cattle in the best possible manner. To this effort we...
Lynn and Caroline take Minnesota by Storm!
by Caroline Rasmussen Lynn and I attended the AFIA (American Feed Industry Association) Feed Industry Institute in Minneapolis MN last week. My brain is just recovering from being stuffed past capacity with a wide variety of information about the feed...
AMTS Academic User: Dr. Ugur Serbester
Dr. Ugar Serbester is one of our Academic users in Turkey. In his position as Assistant Professor on the Faculty of Agriculture in the Department of Animal Science at Cukurova University located on the east bank of the Seyham Dam on Lake Balcali near Adana, he teaches...
NDF Time Points–Joint AMTS and Dairy One Meeting May 4
AMTS and Dairy One Forage Laboratory hosted a joint meeting/webinar at the DFA Syracuse Headquarters on May 4. The purpose was to get some discussion going about what field people are seeing and understanding about the aNDFom time points for measuring fiber...
CHO-C g–Do you know What you are Looking at?
Carbohydrates are a big source of energy for people, animals, and the bugs that help a cow be a cow. Lately, looking at the Carbohydrate fractions, understanding the terminology, knowing what abbreviations constitute what fraction, in what the range of numbers the...
New Feature: Milk Steps
In March AMTS issued an updated version of AMTS.Cattle™.Pro that made some functionality changes, incorporated the CNCPS v 6.5.5 biology, and introduced a new report feature. We routinely do two big update a year. These updates are implementations of user requests,...
Version 4.5 has been released 3/21/16
We've been working very hard the last few months to improve your modeling experience and we're happy to release version 4.5.02. In this version you will find the CNCPS 6.5.5 biology updates, updated reports, the updated CNCPS feedbank, and an announcement page. This...
AMTS Academic Initiative: Guiling Ma–Washington State University
Agricultural Modeling and Training Systems offers AMTS.Cattle™.Pro at a discounted rate for use in Academic Research. As part of our mission to forward research and education opportunities at the university level we are keen to provide quality programming to help...
AMTS Feedbank Update–Zinpro Availa Plus
An update has been made to the AMTS Feedbank that affects the feed Zinpro Availa Plus. Typically we get specs for feeds from commercial companies and just copy and paste from feedbanks the company and/or Cornell send us. In the case of Zinpro Availa Plus the...
The Nutritionist Webinar Series Returns
In 2015 AMTS teamed up with 3Rlab in Brazil and Paula Turiello Nutrition in Argentina to develop The Nutritionist Webinar Series. The series is a unique, three language presentation held in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Noted ruminant nutritionists present in...
Diet Forensics—Body Weight
When we do trainings or teach groups about the biology behind the program we always emphasize the importance of getting accurate bodyweights. Almost every equation in the model uses the number that you enter for either Mean Full Body Weight (FBW) or Mean Shrunk Body...
A Biology Change is Coming…
In our next release, there will be a biology change that will impact every diet. Over time, questions have been asked about the energy values (both of feeds and of recipes) predicted by CNCPS 6.1 and 6.5. The general consensus has been that they have been low. This...
Feed Analysis
We get asked on a pretty regular basis what do we recommend for feed analysis; especially when people want to add new feeds to the library. So to answer that question, we've put together this posting. This is not a simple question to answer as it depends upon: feed...
Calves in AMTS.Cattle.Pro
There has been a hidden gem in AMTS.Cattle.Pro for the past 15-18 months. We have been keeping it quiet while some evaluations were conducted. This is a system for feeding milk fed calves. It represents a combination of the 2001 Dairy NRC Calf Model, publications from...
AMTS.Cattle™.Pro Feedbank Update
The AMTS Feed Library has been updated based upon updates from Cornell. When you open the program, if you are connected to the internet, you will get a message stating there is an update to the feed library; we recommend that you do so. Will become a routine process...
AMTS software and Windows 10
Hello everyone. AMTS Software runs very nicely on Windows 10. We have been testing it for several months using the beta of Win 10 to ensure compatibility and it performed very nicely. So if you desire to upgrade to Windows 10, from an AMTS standpoint, all will work!...
AMTS.Cattle™.Pro v 4.0: Amino Acid Conversion Tool, Functionality
As discussed in a previous post, in order for the program to work using the new CNCPS 6.5 biology, users must first convert farms using the Amino Acid Conversion Tool. A quick video demonstrating that process is found here. There are a couple of issues about how that...
AMTS.Cattle™.Pro v 4.0: General Release
For several months we have had AMTS.Cattle™.Pro v 4.0 available to users as a voluntary download. This update is the implementation of a tremendous change in the CNCPS biology which is the culmination of several years of focused model research and testing especially...
Video on Updating Feeds
Importing Feed Analysis
With the release of version 4, AMTS has adopted a new method for importing feed analysis from labs. This method was initially based upon the .amts_fa file format and then greatly expanded by DairyOne, DairyLand and CVAS. It has also been adopted by Rock River. It is...
Updating AMTS.Pro and AMTS.FBM feedbanks to CNCPS 6.5 feedstuff database
AMTS.Cattle.Professional (AMTS.Pro) version 4.0 and AMTS.Feedbank Manager (AMTS.FBM) version 2.xx feedstuff databases have been updated to include the following changes: biotin and choline unit changes amino acids unit changes Carbohydrate b3 kd rate calculation...
CNCPS v 6.5: Amino Acid changes and Updated Feed Library Values
Modeling has come a long way. The first version of The Cornell Net Carbohydrate and Protein System (CNCPSv 1.0) was released in 1991 and was published as a series of papers about the work of Fox et al., O'Connor et al., Russell et.al, and Sniffen et al. The CNCPS was...
CNCPS 6.5 changes; Nitrogen digestion and Ross Assay
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...
CNCPS 6.5 Changes: aNDFom
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...
CNCPS v 6.5 changes: uNDF
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...
CNCPS 6.1 vs. AMTS 3.5.8 vs. CNCPS 6.5 and AMTS 3.6
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...
Tom’s 20 Questions for Herd Evaluation
After Tom The Nutritionist talk in April, many requested his 20 Questions for Herd Evaluation. He generously shares that information here.
Creating a Master Batch from a Recipe
The nutritionist needs to be the master of creating efficient protocols that help busy clients get the most out of their resources, be they time, money, or products. Often, especially on larger facilities, the farmer may want to create his own concentrate mix from...
The Van Soest Lab Manual
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...
AMTS.Cattle™.Pro v 4.0 Release
We are offering a voluntary release of AMTS.Cattle™.Pro v 4.0. To access the download link, you need to register on our blog site To help users understand the CNCPS biology changes and perform the tasks necessary for converting farm files as they update to the...
Converting from AMTS.Cattle™.Pro 3.5 using CNCPS 6.1 to AMTS.Cattle™.Pro 4.0 using CNCPS 6.5
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...
California CNCPS 6.5 Road trip Report
Th The first quarter Biology road show continues to go well. The last week in January Mariann went to Visalia, CA to conduct a few meetings. She flew out of 15°F, windy conditions and ahead of the predicted blizzard to arrive in San Jose in balmy 60° temps. Her...
The Nutritionist Webinar Series
We are pleased to announce an exciting series of webinars focused on dairy cattle nutrition with presentations by some of the leading educators and researchers in the field of ruminant nutrition. These monthly webinars are intended to provide access to technical...
AMTS CNCPS 6.5 Roadshow Trip 2: Grantville, Pennsylvania, USA
Yesterday, January 15, 2015, we held our second in a series of meeting about the CNCPS 6.5 biology in Grantville, Pennsylvania. Galit, Lynn, and Mariann made a quick trip down to Grantville braving some of the coldest temperatures this winter—neg. 28°F for Lynn when...
Road Show Meetings–Guelph, Ontario, Canada
This past week we held the first of our Winter Meetings focusing on the new CNCPS 6.5 biology on a cold day in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Our partners at this meeting were DairyLand Labs and Adisseo. A group of nutritionists and industry professional attended the...
The CNCPS v 6.5 Roadshow–Winter 2015
A couple of things from our website: The AMTS mission is to provide and promote integrated solutions that enhance the economic and environmental sustainability of animal agriculture and allied industries. AND At AMTS, our goal is to be the global, independent, expert...
Guest Post: Kurt Cotanch—Fundamentals of uNDF and iNDF
In October we were very busy getting ready for the release of our next update which will incorporate the newest version of the CNCPS v 6.5. At present we and Cornell are still finalizing the numbers and how they fit into the program. Since many of the implementations...
CNCPS v 6.5 in AMTS.Cattle™.Pro
There has been a hubbub in the industry regarding the pending release of the CNCPS v 6.5. Nutritionists who are users of the model have been both anticipatory and concerned—"How will the changes affect my numbers?", "What do I need to do differently?", "How should I...
Looking Forward CNCPS v 6.5
Since the last major revision of the CNCPS in 2010, further refinements of the model have been researched and validated in the effort to more closely predict animal responses to nutrient and management inputs. Several adjustments to the model biology will be...
Past, Present, and Future
Late Summer Sunrise Wow, it has been a busy summer and promises to be an event-filled fall. Everyone at AMTS has been flat out working on exciting projects and traveling to various parts of the world. We have been so hectic that we have not had much time to devote to...
New Release—Reorder Recipe Feature
About ten days ago AMTS released an update of the AMTS.Cattle™.Pro ration balancing program. Lynn sent you an email blast and (if you had downloaded the major update in April) your program informed you that there was a newer version of .Pro available for download....
AMTS Announces Academic Initiative
Here in the Northeast part of the United Sates where most of the AMTS team lives, we experienced a cold, snowy, and, seemingly, very long winter. There is much that can be debated about Global Climate Change and whether it actually was unusual or whether the last...
AMTS Helping Susquehanna Watershed Dairies Increase Feeding Accuracy
Post by Caroline Rasmussen AMTS LLC, in conjunction with the Upper Susquehanna Coalition, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and Cornell University, is implementing a precision feed management project in the Upper Susquehanna...
Download the Latest Version of the Software
We all like Bright Shiny Objects! When we release a new version, sometimes it acts just as a patch. In that case you click on the link and it patches the updates into the existing program. Sometimes the overhaul is so extensive that a new installation of the program...
AMTS Around the World: Candelaria Ferrer–Argentina
Candelaria Ferrer Somaré M.V; MSc. serves as a distributor for AMTS products in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay through GEPSA Feeds. Recently Candelaria organized a training session teaching utilization of AMTS.Cattle™.Pro in formulating diets in Argentina. [EDIT:...
New Release AMTS.Cattle™.Pro v 3.5.05
We are pleased to announce an updated AMTS.Cattle™.Pro release of our popular CNCPS based ration software. Throughout the year many small updates are incorporated into the program; these changes are pulled into the program whenever a user selected the check for...
AMTS Around the World: Guest Post—Marcos Neves Pereira—Brazil Part2
Today we have the second part of the guest post by Dr. Marcos Neves Perira. Part 2. Dairying in the south of Minas Gerais The UFLA and the Better Nature Reaserch Center are located in the south of Minas Gerais. This hilly region is an important and traditional dairy...
AMTS Around the World: Guest Post—Marcos Neves Pereira—Brazil Part 1
This is Part 1 of a two part guest post by Marcos Neves Pereira, Professor Associodo, Universidade Federal de Lavras. Marcos graciously responded to my request for information about his role in cattle farming in Brazil. I will follow up with the second part later this...
A Bit of a Tease
I recognize that it has been a little while since we have had any new stories up here on the blog site. Everyone has been very busy this winter, so busy that other projects—all of which are coming to a critical point at once—have been taking most of our time. You will...
Who moved my Feeds?
Do you ever have one of those days? Maybe you woke up late, maybe the coffee was gone when you went to pour your second cup, maybe your favorite team lost the big game the day before… So you sit down at your computer to just run a few quick diets, you open your...
Guest Post: Danny G. Fox: On the History of CNCPS
We are very fortunate, here at AMTS, to have had special insight into the development of the CNCPS model and to have been on the development team. Danny G. Fox, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University, has served as mentor and colleague to several on our team. He can...
Guest Post Danny G Fox–AMTS: About the Founders
This is the second posting from Dr. Danny Fox about the early days on CNCPS and some background on the founders of AMTS. The last one focused on the development of the model; this post focuses on the people. AMTS is a CNCPS (Cornell Net Carbohydrate and Protein...
AMTS.Cattle.Pro v 3.4.7.1—The Last Bit about What is New
I got waylaid by much work up to the Holidays and then, Christmas itself; so I am much delayed in posting the final bit of information about what is new in the latest version. There are various new outputs Four Additional Outputs IOpurFC (Income Over purchased Feed...
Check the Agri-Nutrition Blog
Recently Lynn was asked to write an article for the Agri-Nutrition Blog. Her post appears here. Thanks to Connie Eibergen for posting Lynn's contribution and to Scott Bascom for the idea. 5 Reasons Why Profit Minded Farmers Need to Take Advantage of Rumen Modeling...
Working with Adifo
In October AMTS and Belgium-Based Adifo joined forces to allow AMTS to distribute Adifo's BESTMIX line of products to North, Central, and South America. This collaboration will join CNCPS biology with the cloud based FaaS (Formulation as a Service) to better serve the...
AMTS.Cattle.Pro v 3.4.7.1—More about What is New
So, the last post covered the newly added option that allows you to adjust the amount of data you are able to see as you look at certain screens. This ability to customize the windows allows users with smaller computers better viewing by focusing on the most critical...
McDonalds Thanks Farmers
Here in the US, we have a very small part of the population feeding the majority of the people very cheaply. Decades of government promulgated farm policy has ensured that consumers continue to pay a very small percentage of their paycheck for food, especially when...
AMTS.Cattle.Pro v 3.4.7.1—What’s New
November 7, Agriculture Modeling and Training Systems was pleased to roll out an update of the AMTS.Cattle.Professional software program. This version, 3.4.7.1, incorporates several new features, additional analyses based on the latest CNCPS biology, different view...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 31: Navigating the Manual
Tomorrow is the first day of the Cornell Nutrition Conference, a terrific annual meeting of researchers, academics, students, and industry professionals involved in the nutrition of cattle, with considerable emphasis on dairy cattle. It is a great opportunity to...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 30: Still More Cattle Screen Inputs
The final few inputs in the cattle screen are arguably the most important pieces of information in the Cattle screen. We have yet to cover the information about hair coat, mud exposure, and panting, which we will. But, by far, the most critical information in this...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks–Day 29: Just a Little Post…
A frustrating day of wonky computer shenanigans and and I am determined not to be defeated. This will not be the final posting of the Cattle Inputs screen, as planned. That is a fairly involved post and I want to get it right. So, a nice picture and a small bit of...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 28: Milk Components, and more traveling
Tom spent some time earlier this month in Chile. While there he addressed a group about utilizing AMTS to help balance diets in systems based on grazing cattle. He addressed supplementing with properly balanced amino acids and added fats with an eye towards improved...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 27: More Cattle Screen Inputs
The next group of inputs we will work on in the Cattle screen are Body Condition Score and how BCS and target BCS can be used to target gains in growth and milk production. The following inputs provide the model with information that allows for correct coefficient for...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks–Day 26: Cattle Screen Inputs Continued
Today I am inexplicably having problems with my computer connecting to the internet and so, have to resort to a back up computer for a blog posting. It will be short and sweet. I may be a little succinct until I get my computer up and working. If I miss a day, I will...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 25: More Cattle Screen Inputs
As a result of a request from one of our readers the new few post are spent looking into the Cattle screen inputs. This is the second of those posts. Now we will look at the next section of Cattle screen inputs. The information is needed for various equations in the...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 24: Cattle Screen Inputs
I had a request that I should review the inputs in the Cattle Screen. Excellent! I very much like suggestions. As I reviewed the information I had about the inputs for the Cattle Screen, I realized there is a lot of information and each item has a reason for...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 23: Locked Feeds
When you are working in a Farm and open the Feed window you will notice that some feeds in your Farm Feedbank have a red circle with a white line through it. This symbol means that that feed originated in a feedbank created by another user, (that user can be AMTS)....
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 22: Default Ration Outputs Templates
As introduced in yesterday’s post, Ration Output Templates is a convenient feature that assists in focusing on the outputs most critical for a given group of cattle. In AMTS.Pro you have the ability to use the default templates designed for each group, customize to...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 21: Ration Output Templates
Ration Output Template is a feature found in the Recipe screen that allows you to view and edit the parameters that are most important to a particular group. Using a template, either one created by AMTS or a custom template you have created (tomorrow’s post) to limit...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks–Day 20: Sharing Files
This is going to be the very quickest of quick tips! I promise a more detailed blog tomorrow--sometimes inspiration comes, sometimes it stays in another city. You can share most files in AMTS.Pro with another .Pro user. You can easily go into your Document Folder and...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 19: Sampling Frequency
Feed analysis is an important tool for generating more precise predictions using the model. You can model and predict using library values but much more precise estimations of both economic outputs (milk and growth) and environmental outputs (excretions) are gained...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 18: What Analyses are most critical to the Model?
So, in hand with discussion of importing feed analyses, analyses performed and frequency should be addressed. What analysis should we be taking on our feeds? Well, that depends on what the feed is. Forages For all Forages the following analysis should be performed: DM...
31 Tips and Tricks—Day 17: More about importing Feed Analyses
Yesterday, I showed a quick run through of importing a feed analysis into the Farm Feedbank Library. As you may remember, an important part of that process is to import “to” a similar feed in the farm file. For example, you would like to import the Laboratory analysis...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks–Day 16: Adding Feed Analyses
Importing feed analysis to the program is very easily done; many of the most commonly used labs are set up to email results in several file extensions at your request. Labs familiar with the program will be able to send your feed file as an .amts_fa file. After you...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 15: Lynn is Traveling, Again, and Sharing Reports
This is the time of year that Lynn doesn't seem to stay home for very long. This past week she was at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, WI. Next week has her heading west, again, to attend the Pacific Northwest Animal Nutrition Conference being held in Coeur d’Alene,...
31 days of Tips and Tricks–Day 14: Help Menu
The Help menu has some very useful options if you have some questions about particular areas of the program. The first item on the list is View User’s Manual. I have spent a lot of time trying to make this as inclusive and understandable as possible. Clicking that...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks–Day 13: A Little Bit of Navigation
There are a couple of ways to navigate AMTS.Pro. The most obvious method is the Ribbon containing icons and categories that stretches across the top. You can select data entry screens and move around the program using the drop down menu (File, View, Tools, Windows,...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks–Day 12: Changing Dry Matter Intake in Recipes
Sometimes when working on a diet, you get all of the feeds in place in the proportions that you like, but you want to increase the DMI of the whole recipe. It would be tedious to manually increase each component of the recipe while maintaining the established...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks–Day 11: Travels
This is not so much a Tip or a Trick but a necessary announcement. AMTS people are always on the move. Well, actually Tom and Lynn are always on the move. Caroline does a fair bit of getting out there but Vijay, Fred, and I, the computer people, so to speak, rarely...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks–Day 10: Go Bold!
AMTS.Pro is a complex and detailed program based on CNCPS 6.1 biology. When fully utilized it very accurately predicts animal performance, both in terms of productive output (milk, growth) and excretions. When you first begin modeling a new farm there is A LOT of...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 9: Notes
There are a couple of places in .Pro where you can key in notes about the farm so that you can see them when you are working in the Farm. Notes on the Farm window are not printed anywhere. They are just there for you or anyone you send the file to. The other place to...
31Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 8: Why would you turn off Auto-Save?
As I discussed before, the default condition of the AMTS.Pro is to use the auto-save feature. Some of our users mentioned that they like to run “what-if” scenarios and would rather not “mess-up” their farm files. For that reason Vijay created a way for the auto-save...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 7: More about Auto Save
Yesterday I talked about the safety net that .Pro provides in the creation of a backup Farm file at the opening of a Farm. I reviewed parts of an earlier blog post by Vijay about using auto save and general housekeeping recommendations when working with the Auto Save...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 6: Backup Farm Files
Yesterday I wrote a little about how the Farm Files are saved in the program. Earlier, in May, I posted a blog about the auto-save feature and a new feature Vijay had added to the program, the ability to turn off the auto-save, allowing you to save changes when and...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 5: File Location Options and Auto Save
The next few tips will relate specifically to the Farm file saving options within .Pro. There are a couple of ways files can be saved in the program and a few specifics that are helpful to know. The default file saving option for AMTS.Pro is to have the Auto-Save...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 4: Expanded Feeds Screen
The Farm Feed information is able to be viewed in the Feeds Screen in two ways. The first and default view shows Feed Name, Source, DM, Last Update Date, and Price (in several different ways). The carrot beside each column head allows for sorting ascending by that...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 3: Screen Size
There are a couple of useful tricks to know about screen size in .Pro. On the screens that have the traditional Microsoft Minimize, Maximize, Close buttons, the Maximize icon is disabled. If the Screen you are looking at is small for your computer you can make it...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks –Day 2: Temperature Inputs
The temperature input found in the Location screen should be the temperature the cattle are exposed to. This does not necessarily mean the outside temperature in all situations. Cattle in freestalls will experience a different temperature than ones outside. It is very...
31 Days of Tips and Tricks—Day 1 Net Animal Value
In anticipation of the Annual Cornell Nutrition Conference we are publishing 31 Blog posts—one each day up until October 22, the first day of the conference, that will showcase a different aspect of working within AMTS.Pro. There are a number little "tips" and...
Changing Digestibility Rates
One of the features available with AMTS.Pro, and; indeed, any of the CNCPS biology based modeling programs, is the user's ability to change the digestibility rates of any feed. This is part of the license offered by Cornell when they grant a license to a nutrition...
Follow-up for the Denver Conference
Here at AMTS, we rely on maintaining close contact with our users through newsletters, industry meetings, our blog--Ruminations, and teaching seminars. Recently, in mid August, we recently held one such meeting in Denver, Colorado. This was our first real "away"...
Drilling Down in Denver
Next week the AMTS crew will be headed off to Denver, home of bison, columbines, and the most micro breweries in the United States, for a training session. After holding meetings for several years in eastern United States, we decided to give our western customers a...
Nutrition Tools: Tom’s Questions for Herd Evaluation – Lactating Cows
This is the third and final post based on questions Tom uses when he is analyzing a herd for potential weakness and areas for improvement. This entry focuses on the lactating cow group. Tom's Reasons for asking these specific questions. General comments: you may...
Nutrition Tools: Tom’s Questions for Herd Evaluation — Dry Cow Group
This is the second of three articles discussing the questions Tom ask when he first begins evaluation a herd. As in the post about replacement animals, I will post the questions Tom asks and this logic behind these specific questions. In this posting I will write...
Nutrition Tools: Tom’s Questions for Herd Evaluation–Heifer Group
Nutrition Tools:Tom’s Questions for Herd Evaluation–Heifer Group One of the first tasks a nutritionist going onto a new farm must do is to get an accurate picture of the existing program. Key to that process is asking the right questions and using the best tools to...
Nutrition Tools:Tom’s Questions for Herd Evaluation – Heifer Group
One of the first tasks a nutritionist going onto a new farm must do is to get an accurate picture of the existing program. Key to that process is asking the right questions and using the best tools to collect the needed physical information. Here at AMTS, we have...
Guest Post-Rick Grant-Miner Institute: Focus on Feeding
Researchers at the University of Guelph have recently assessed the impact of feeding management on herd performance (Sova et al., 2013. J. Dairy Sci. online. 96:1-12). We know from European research (Bach et al., 2008. J. Dairy Sci. 91:3259) that ensuring 24-hour feed...
California Animal Nutrition Conference Fresno, CA – May 15 – 16, 2013
Fresno State University Dairy - Home of the Legendary CANC BBQ There is something about the interaction between the California Animal Nutrition Conference program, Fresno weather in mid-May and the storied conference barbecue back on campus that makes this one of the...
AMTS Training Course and Update
Just before the weekend, AMTS released an updated version of .Cattle.Professional. Most of the changes were behind the scenes: fixes to a few things that generated error messages, minor changes to certain screens, an up-dated manual, and additions to the feedbank. If...
AMTS.Cattle.Professional Tips & Tricks: Working with Farms Backup
When we originally created .Pro a back up file was automatically created of your farm files every time a farm was opened. These backed up files were stored in the "Farms Backup" folder with each farm's backups stored in its own folder. By default, this folder is...
Farming in Brazil
Brazil has become a world leader in Agriculture production and exports, transforming itself from an importer of agricultural goods to a leading exporter over the past 30 years. This 2010 story in The Economist outlines some of the causes of this successful...
Using the Evaluation Matrix
My experience working with AMTS is a little of a coming home story. I attended Cornell University in the early 1980's. I went there because I grew up on a small Jersey farm and wanted to be a large animal veterinarian. A few semesters into pre-vet classes I realized I...
March 19- National Ag Day
In the United States March 19th is celebrated as National Ag Day. Our country has strong agrarian roots; farming methods and knowledge has evolved to the point where less than 2 percent of the population works to feed the other 98%. Fewer and fewer people have a...
Western Dairy Management Conference
Tom will be attending the Western Dairy Management Conference in Reno, Nevada March 6-8. If you would like to set up an appointment to meet, contact him at support@agmodelsystems.com or call him +1.607.423.3327. Be sure to have him explain the new AMTS.Cloud platform...
Western Canadian Dairy Seminar
Lynn will be heading off to Canada to attend the Western Canadian Dairy Seminar on March 5-8 in Red Deer, Alberta. She will be available to meet with you if you have any questions. Ask Lynn to show you some of the new features in the latest AMTS.Cattle.Pro release and...
Southwest Nutrition and Management Conference Pre-Conference
Attendees of the Southwest Nutrition Conference have an opportunity to attend a pre-conference sponsored by Matrix Nutrition. Mark Holt will be using AMTS. Pro to demonstrate management strategies utilizing unique feedstuffs. Following is a summary from Matrix of the...
New .Pro Release!
Ag Modeling and Training Systems is pleased to announce the release of an updated version of AMTS.Cattle.Pro. If you are presently running version 3.4.3.6 you can download a patch from within the program. If you have an earlier version (you will be able to tell this...