Incorporating commodity grains in precision animal nutrition

Precision animal nutrition has been advertised as the next revolution in the way we approach feeding farm animals, focusing on optimizing performance, health and resource utilization. But this is what we have always been doing. Now, however, we have modern tools that make this task easier and more accurate.

A major question is where do commodity grains fit into this modern animal nutrition landscape? By commodity, I mean feedstuff raw materials that are being bought with a typical, expected, analytical and nutritive value. As such, efforts to incorporate technologies such as inline NIR are not considered since not all feed mills have access to such sophisticated machinery.