Feed Management Planners Certification Program to Reduce Nutrient Loads in Impaired Watersheds
Channel: Livestock & Poultry Environ. Learning Community
Date: 2013-06-04

For more: http://www.extension.org/67618 To develop a program to train ARPAS-certified (American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists) dairy and beef nutritionists on how to prepare and evaluate Feed Management plans as it relates to the NRCS Feed Management (592) practice in Pennsylvania. The objective is to compare how formulated diets match to the consumed diets. Phosphorus is monitored through manure testing and nitrogen by milk urea nitrogen and calculating milk nitrogen efficiency. Dry matter intake efficiency is also monitored as this can affect the total manure volume excreted.