Feed labels are saved on disk and can be edited with a word processor. All equations and nutrient requirements can be changed to meet breeder guidelines. Five different pens are maintained. Up to five feeds can be used in each pen for a specified number of days or to a specified animal weight. Special reports show the profit at different buying prices, selling prices, and feed costs.
Tables predict daily gain and intake from NEg and NEm.
The 1984 NRC 'Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle' is the basis for estimating the requirements of pregnant yearling heifers, dry pregnant mature cows, two-year old heifers nursing calves, cows nursing calves, and bulls maintaining or regaining body condition. The 1989 NRC 'Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle' is the basis for estimating the requirements of growing cattle, pregnant or lactating cattle, and mature bulls. NRC disks The amino acid content of bakery products, corn, corn gluten meal, fish meal, lupine, meat and bone meal, milo, pea meal, poultry by-products, soybean meal and wheat is estimated in a program written by Dr. Frank J. Ivey of Monsanto Agricultural Company. This information is easily changed, or data files can be created by the user. For problems of resource allocation and optimization other than feed blending, ASC offers MINI-MAX, a user friendly LP program for Windows in English or German.