Evidence based nutrition®

“Sustainability is just a code word for efficiency on your farm. ”

— Johnston

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Fermentrics Carbon represents a new milestone in gas analytics, born out of two years of intensive development work. This groundbreaking innovation introduces a novel method to assess and monitor Greenhouse Gases, setting new standards in the industry. Fermentrics Carbon has undergone rigorous scientific validation within an Environmental Chamber and Gas Chromatography in order to accurately gauge and predict dietary efficiency.

Gain insights into your TMR feed efficiency and usage.

Energy balance and Emissions profile

Holstein | Jersey | Beef

  • Informs your nutritionist how your TMR will react in a rumen and determines the rate and extent of ruminal digestion.

  • Allows your nutritionist the opportunity to change the diet to support greater ruminal efficiency.

  • The balance analysis will show how reducing parasitic loss of energy to methane can change your milk efficiency.

  • Methane cannot be eliminated during rumination but, reducing the amount of dry matter committed to methane production reallocates that dry matter intake to milk and meat.

  • eH (Redox) - Description of which way the fermentation has gone and which VFA’s are produced.

  • VFA - Total Amount, Acetate and Propionate.

  • aPF - Gluconeogenic vs non gluconeogenic

This revolutionary product offers two distinct versions: InVitro and Rapid. InVitro leverages specially crafted Carbon sensors tailored to Fermentrics' clientele, ensuring precision in data aquisition. Rapid utilizes cutting-edge spectral technology with sophisticated deep learning models engineered by Orugen and meticulously trained on a vast array of fermented samples. This patented methodology enables real-time analysis, delivering instant outcomes when scanned on BlueSun, Foss, Bruker or mobile NIR scanners. Results are indistinguishable from Fermentrics InVitro results.

Built using an extensive data collection

In Vitro is offered in three packages:

Fermentrics® is a unique nutritional diagnostic tool which provides directionality to the user . It is an advanced In Vitro fermentation system that measures the rate, extent, and quantity of gas production as well as digestion metrics that can be used to measure Microbial Biomass Production.

This method of analysis gives actionable insight into how a ruminant animal will utilize a particular feed or diet. Book values of comparable starch and fibre sources may look similar but, when fed, may perform very differently, delivering different fermentation end products which, in turn, differentially drive milk production and other metabolic activities. Fermentrics gives insight into how that particular TMR or feed ingredient will be used in a cow.

Many time diets do not perform as prescribed, due to the many variables involved and the associative effects of feeds and forages, it is difficult to isolate the problem. A new approach using gas production techniques can assist nutritionists and producers in gaining a better understanding of the digestion kinetics of feeds and forages. This information can be used to estimate milk production and provide the end user with options on how to adjust the ration. 15 years of gas analysis has allowed us to refine and perfect the gas production system. This system, along with standard analysis an In situ steps, allow for the definition of Kds at multiple time points as well as measuring when maximum rates are achieved.

Conventional

Forage

Included: Rate & Extent | CP | SP | ADICP | NDICP | ADF | NDF | Lignin | Starch | Sugar

TMR

Included: Rate & Extent | CP | SP | ADIP | NDIP | ADF | NDF | Lignin | Starch | Sugar | Fat | Ash | Ca | P | K | Mg | S | Na | peNDF

Green House Gas

FG-7

Included: Methane | Carbon Dioxide | Hydrogen | Ammonia | pH | PSI | Temperature | Rate & Extent

Measured 100x a second and reported at 30 second time intervals during a 24 hour fermentation.

What is it?

  • Fermentrics is an analytical tool that can explain the ‘when ‘ and ‘how much ‘ of rumen digestion.

  • Unlike static NIR or wet chemistry analyses, Fermentrics is a dynamic assay that lets you know what is going on while offering insight into positive or negative ingredient interactions.

  • It tells you ‘why’ something is happening in the cow – to complement the ‘what ’ is happening in the cow.

What is it not?

  • Fermentrics cannot explain the effects of environment, DIM, or parity on milk production.

  • The Fermentrics methodology, by design, ensures that protein (nitrogen) is not limiting during the fermentation analysis. Thus it will not reflect potential negative impacts of a diet that is short on degradable crude protein supply.