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Diagnostic Tool Consulting Tool
Nutritional Monitoring Program
What is your Forage Quality &Animal Performance?
The Grazingland Animal Nutrition Lab, also known as the GAN Lab, offers diagnostic analysis and decision support software that is used as a nutritional monitoring program for grazing livestock. The GAN Lab serves livestock producers, managers, veterinarians, and ranch consultants. The GAN Lab's research and services utilize near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) to analyze animal fecal samples. This technology allows the lab to return nutritional analyses within two days of receiving samples. Producers and managers now have a reliable means of implementing a nutritional monitoring program that can enhance their decision making process. In the past the GAN Lab has focused on analysis of nutritional factors such as protein and energy. Research is now underway that addresses livestock issues such as mineral status, parasite stress, and pregnancy status as well as soil analysis. This new array of diagnostic tools would offer livestock producers, consultants, and wildlife managers a noninvasive means of monitoring grazing animals, as well as rangelands and grasslands.
Important online tools NUTBAL is on the Web - Now available on line. You can submit your samples through the new Automated NIRS/NUTBAL System. When you use this new service you have access to the NUTBAL software via the internet. No, you do not have to download it. This is an interactive site that allows the livestock producer instant access to reports that describe how the animals are performing and what would be the most cost effective feed solution. $35 per sample for the NIRS analyses and NUTBAL performance reports. Check out the website for an overview and how you can get started. If you have any questions, contact Kris Banik. Weather link just for NUTBAL - For all of you that are running the NUTBAL Pro software, we have made it simple for you to gather weather information. You can access the maximum and minimum temperatures and mean daily humidity for the previous 30-days and the current 3-5 days that correspond to the fecal sample on the U.S. Animal Performance Animal Weather Data System web site. Enter in the date the sample was collected and the farm/ranch's latitude and longitude. The site will pull up just the information needed for NUTBAL Pro. You can request help finding your latitude and longitude by emailing the GAN Lab. In the email please include the miles and direction from what city and state and the lab can give a rough approximation for latitude and longitude.
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