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1977

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"Feed planning and balancing according to standards of the energy and protein require­ments" has been elaborated as an integral part of the GDR Feed Evaluation System to ensure that feed supply can be planned according to actual requirements, and has, by using com­puter techniques, been introduced in the GDR for planning activities at enterprise level as well as for national planning at territorial levels. The standards characterize the feed require­ments encountered under average production conditions for large livestock populations and longer spans of time. They have been derived for all animal species and production objectives from the requirement standards for feeding according to the course of production; they include certain allowances to compensate dif­ferences in performance. Requirements and feed supply are subdivided into roughages (green forages and their pre­served forms, straw) and concentrates and are balanced according to energy and nutrients (protein and amino acids), while simultaneously taking into consideration restricted feed in­takes. The results of such balancing activities can be used to determine the feed production pat­tern necessary to meet requirements, the amounts of supplementary feed to be purchased, the distribution of feed at supra-enterprise level, and the efficient use of feed for animal production purposes.

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Planning and balancing of feed requirements and feed production according to standards of the energy and protein requirements specified in the GDR Feed Evalua­tion System

"Feed planning and balancing according to standards of the energy and protein require­ments" has been elaborated as an integral part of the GDR Feed Evaluation System to ensure that feed supply can be planned according to actual requirements, and has, by using com­puter techniques, been introduced in the GDR for planning activities at enterprise level as well as for national planning at territorial levels. The standards characterize the feed require­ments encountered under average production conditions for large livestock populations and longer spans of time. They have been derived for all animal species and production objectives from the requirement standards for feeding according to the course of production; they include certain allowances to compensate dif­ferences in performance. Requirements and feed supply are subdivided into roughages (green forages and their pre­served forms, straw) and concentrates and are balanced according to energy and nutrients (protein and amino acids), while simultaneously taking into consideration restricted feed in­takes. The results of such balancing activities can be used to determine the feed production pat­tern necessary to meet requirements, the amounts of supplementary feed to be purchased, the distribution of feed at supra-enterprise level, and the efficient use of feed for animal production purposes.