Why analyze feed?
Forage crops vary in moisture, nitrogen, fiber, energy and mineral content. Since production is determined by the quality of feeds, it is important to evaluate feeds to determine the nutrients available to animals. The general areas of concern to farmers are that the dairy concentrates available in the market vary considerably in nutrient composition. ABS TCM focuses on monitoring closely the quality of feeds farmers feed their animals so as to advise accordingly. This is to ensure that farmers reap optimum benefits commensurate to their inputs.

Proximate Analyses
The analyses include; dry matter determination, fiber fractionation (crude fiber, acid detergent fiber and neutral detergent fiber), fat/oil determination, nitrogen /crude protein and metabolizable energy determined by computation.

Advisory Service
Following analysis ABS TCM advises farmers on custom-made dairy feeds to reduce the cost of production of milk. In addition other nutrition and advisory services are feed conservation and forage quality and forage market information.