Plant husbandry – Process – For fruit – vegetable – or tobacco
Reexamination Certificate
2007-02-13
2007-02-13
Nguyen, T. (Department: 3644)
Plant husbandry
Process
For fruit, vegetable, or tobacco
Reexamination Certificate
active
10867877
ABSTRACT:
A method that accounts for environmental factors by measuring the starch and fiber degradation characteristics of a variety of genetically different crop plants and grain from crop plants in real time to determine how the crop plants should be conserved, processed and blended into a feed formulation that results in optimum productivity of the ruminant animal. A method further including determining starch digestibility characteristics of a set of crop plant samples comprising grain of said crop plant; developing a prediction equation based on said starch digestibility characteristics, obtaining a grain sample from a crop plant, determining in real time starch digestibility characteristics by NIRS of said sample by inputting data from said NIRS into said equation, storing and/or milling said grain on an identity preserved basis, and determining the amount of said crop plant to incorporate into a feed formulation based on the starch digestibility characteristics.
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