FNIRS provides an efficient means for determining animal performance and forage quality based upon the diet selection of your grazing animals.
The Gan Lab offers FNIRS analysis of livestock and wildlife samples to estimate diet crude protein, diet digestible organic matter which is approximately equal to total digestible nutrients (TDN), as well as fecal nitrogen and phosphorus. These values can be combined with animal information such breed, age, class, weight, body condition score (BCS), and weather conditions into the Nutbal software to predict animal performance (i.e. weight change) and thus inform management decision making.