Bringing Feed Analysis from the Lab to the Production Line
Stock animals such as cows, pigs, rabbits and chickens that are raised in large agricultural businesses typically are sustained on compound feed, a highly nutritive blend of grains, vitamins, minerals and other substances. Assuring the quality of compound feed during production traditionally has been a laborious process of sampling by hand and taking the sample to a laboratory for physicochemical analysis. Recently, the process was sped up by using near-IR spectroscopy, but testing still must...
Photonics Spectra, June 2008