TY - BOOK ID - 56715032 TI - NorFor - The Nordic feed evaluation system AU - Volden, Harald AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2011 SN - 9789086867189 9789086861620 PB - Wageningen Wageningen Academic Publishers Imprint Wageningen Academic Publishers DB - UniCat KW - Biology KW - biologie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:56715032 AB - NorFor is a semi-mechanistic feed evaluation system for cattle, which is used by advisors in Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This book describes in detail the system and it covers five main sections. The first is concerned with information on feed characteristics, feed analysis and feed digestion methods. The second section describes the digestion and metabolism in the gastrointestinal tract and the supply and requirement of energy and metabolizable amino acids. The third section considers the prediction of feed intake and physical structure of the diet. The fourth section focuses on model evaluation and the final section provides information on the IT solutions and feed ration formulation by a non-linear economical optimization procedure. This book will be of significant interest to researchers, students and advisors of cattle nutrition and feed evaluation. ER -