Direct and indirect means of predicting forage quality through near infrared reflectance spectroscopy Conference Paper

abstract

• The advent of NIRS technology for assessing quality of plant/forage/feed tissue and predicting diet quality from feces offers livestock nutritionists, researchers, farm advisors and resource consultants a rapid mechanism to acquire nutritional information. The portability and low long-term maintenance costs of this technology coupled with rapid turn around time on processing offers a mechanism for nutrition programs to address forage and dietary quality issues that were limited due to high maintenance costs of wet chemistry laboratories. The fundamentals of NIRS technology and associated development of calibration equations are discussed along with methods to validate equations. Direct methods for tissue analysis and indirect methods to predict diet quality from feces are reviewed for major constituents found in forages, including crude protein, digestibility, tannins and minerals. 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V.

authors

• Tolleson, Douglas

published proceedings

• Field Crops Research

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Stuth, J., Jama, A., & Tolleson, D.

citation count

• 98

complete list of authors

• Stuth, Jerry||Jama, Abdi||Tolleson, Doug

publication date

• October 2003

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Field Crops Research  Journal

keywords

• Nutrition

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/s0378-4290(03)00140-0

start page

• 45

end page

• 56

volume

• 84

issue

• 1-2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-4290(03)00140-0