FEED, FORAGE AND FODDER ANALYSIS
Increasing processing rates in feed production have put added demands on the need for rapid and accurate measurements of the nutritive value of feed, their ingredients, forage and fodder. It is here that George Weston Technologies can help using Near Infrared Spectroscopic Services or NIR.

MEETING INCREASED NEEDS
The NIR facilities at George Weston Technologies service the feed and pasture sectors. The well-established service gives you accurate nutritive information to manage ingredient intake for production purposes. It also enables correctly formulated feed to keep animals in their prime whilst you keep a hold on feed costs.

FEED AND INGREDIENTS
George Weston Technologies offers extensive and reliable NIR analytical services for feed, ingredients, forage and fodder to suit customer requirements. NIR calibrations are available for many specific requirements. They include:

• Protein
• Moisture
• Crude Fat/Oil
• Crude Fibre
• Ash
• Starch
• Neutral Detergent Fibre

Typical products that can be analysed are:

• Complete feeds such as poultry, pig feed, ruminant as well as dog and cat
• Feed ingredients such as soybean meal, corn, wheat, barley, sorghum, canola meal, fish meal, meat and bone meal, rice, triticale, millmix, oats, lupins, faba beans, cotton meal, sun meal

FORAGE AND FODDER
The forage and fodder types capable of being tested by NIR are:

• Fresh Pasture
• Hay and Straw
• Grain Silage
• Grass Silage