Title:
反すう動物の栄養強化のための方法および飼料
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2009544319
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
A computer-based system for characterizing in real time the nutritional components of one of more ingredients for a ruminant feed ration, including dry matter, NDF, NDFd, lignified NDF ratio, percent starch, IVSD, and particle size for a forage material; and IVSD and particle size for a grain material. The system utilizes proprietary NIRS equations based upon prior samplings of a variety of crop species like dual-purpose com silage, leafy corn silage, brown midrib ("BMR") corn silage, grass (silage/dry), alfalfa (silage/dry), BMR forage sorghum, normal dent starch grain, floury endosperm starch grain, and vitreous endosperm grain, and applies those equations to current samplings of a corresponding crop to predict in real time the characteristics of such forage or grain material.. The real-time characterization system may also utilize the predicted data to calculate a "ration fermentability index" value that takes into account the total NDFd and IVSD characteristics (including RAS and RBS) of the forage and starch ingredients to be used in a feed ration to ensure that the ration will not contribute too much or too little digestibility to the cow.
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Inventors:
Beck, James, F.
Application Number:
JP2009521853A
Publication Date:
December 17, 2009
Filing Date:
July 27, 2007
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Nutri-Innovations LLC
International Classes:
A23K1/18; A23K3/02; G01N21/3563; G01N21/359
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yusuke Hiraki
Ishii Teiji
Satoshi Fujita
Eiichi Arai
Natsuo Tanaka
Ishii Teiji
Satoshi Fujita
Eiichi Arai
Natsuo Tanaka