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.
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...
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...
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...