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Novus International treated some of the top dairy nutrition consultants from the upper Midwest to lunch and a seminar today at the Sheraton next to the World Dairy Expo. One of the presenters was Dr. Tom Overton of Cornell University who talked about the biology behind a couple different ration software programs for dairy nutrition modeling.
“The dairy nutrition modeling effort has been going now at Cornell for more than 30 years and that has led to the development of these programs,” Tom says. “Cornell Penn Miner (CPM Dairy) is a partnership of Cornell with the University of Pennsylvania, Miner Institute, and then a sister program, the Cornell Net Carbohydrate and Protein System (CNCPS).”
Tom says both programs are the result of an on-going effort to “better define the biology of cows and how we might be able to put diets together in order to make them more productive and efficient and help our producers be more profitable.”
Find out more about CNCPS at cncps.cornell.edu and about CPM at cpmdairy.net.
Listen to or download an interview with Dr. Overton here from World Dairy Expo: