USA GRASS NUTRIENT SENSOR
September 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIETHE USA'S Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has developed a sensor that can predict almost immediately how much nutrition a calf is drawing from grazing grass, and say how much weight it could gain from it. Oklahoma firms Durant Design and Development and TerraVerde Technologies are now working with the ARS to design, manufacture and market a small, low-cost, hand-held optical remote sensor that can calculate, store and display data on forage nutrient quality. ARS soil scientist Patrick Starks said the equipment would allow meat producers to make ...
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