Ration Management Articles
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French Fries to Dairy DMI: Using an Inexpensive Air Fryer to Determine Dry Matter
Measuring Dry Matter Accurately On-Farm With an Affordable Consumer Appliance When assessing the health and productivity of your dairy herd, dry matter intake (DMI) is one of the key data points to consider. If DMI is low, productivity suffers no matter the quality of the ration. Moreover, with low DMI, maintaining cow health becomes that much more ...
By Diamond V
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Use quality control to avoid low quality forage and battle cattle malnutrition
Producers of feed products, no matter how well prepared, can always be faced with unexpected events that disrupt or even derail the production process. Weather conditions, for example, often dictate the quality of ingredients and subsequently also the composition of feed recipes and the diet of the ...
By BESTMIX
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Improving Nutrition through Automated Pricing
Considering food pricing as a strategy to improve dietary needs is growing in popularity. There have been strong indications that it works to use economic measures and price incentives to promote healthy eating. One of the top concerns when considering availability and pricing is the constant change in growth conditions. It can be difficult not knowing how prices will fluctuate based on market ...
By BESTMIX
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What to look for when producing animal feed
Producing animal feed can sound like an easy task, but for professionals in nutrition and feed formulation, it's a lot more complicated than it looks. When you're producing animal feed, what are some of the key aspects that need to be kept in mind to ensure you're getting the right formulation or calculation with superior quality management? Implementing technology solutions ensure your customers ...
By BESTMIX
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Interview: Lynn Verstrepen on the importance of feed management
Feed formulation software is no longer just about making feed. The complexity of legislation on food safety, declaration, hazardous materials and others in an ever-globalising industry has grown stronger over the last couple of years. We sat down with BESTMIX® product manager Lynn Verstrepen and discussed the importance of feed management and its effects on operational efficiency. ...
By BESTMIX
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