Flexi’Fodder
Calculate nutritional values for forage
Laboratory analyses
Mastering analyses: a strategic cornerstone in animal nutrition
Mastering analytical methods is an essential driver behind technical decision-making in animal nutrition: it underpins accurate formulations, control of industrial processes, and, ultimately, performance of on-farm performance. For a feed manufacturer, achieving this level of control is a real challenge: ensuring the reliability of analytical results, managing large volumes of data, and turning them into meaningful insights.
Delivering reliable analytical results with solutions adpated to context and goals
Services offered:
- Analyze the chemical properties of raw materials and finished products at the Artémis Laboratoire, in order to provide reliable results for the Formulation and Quality teams.
- Analyze zootechnical criteria to enhance the accuracy of the formulation matrix and improve the performance of finished products.
- Accurately characterize the nutritional value of forages to optimize their use in ruminant farming.
- Develop and propose NIR calibrations, ensuring the reliability of results through near-infrared spectroscopy.
- Advise and train laboratory technicians to develop their skills further and improve their practices.
The benefits
Ensure process reliability and enhance competitiveness
We support our partners with the most suitable approach to manage their analyses: sending samples to the Artémis reference laboratory, using an infrared spectrometer with appropriate calibrations, or enhancing the capabilities and skills of the local laboratory.
Regardless of the approach chosen, the results are accurate, reliable, and fully traceable. The data can be used with complete confidence: updating the formulation matrix, calibrating the NIR system, verifying the compliance of finished products, etc.
The “Analytics” expertise generates benefits for feed manufacturers: from direct benefits through the optimization of control plans to the selection of appropriate laboratories, and cost-effective testing; there are indirect benefits as well, particularly in formulation, where data reliability enables more precise decision-making, reduces unnecessary safety margins, and optimizes feed costs.
“Analytics” expertise also delivers benefits for the livestock industry. It promotes more precise nutrition, improves livestock performance, and generates a positive and sustainable economic impact across the entire value chain.
Why Mixscience?
A comprehensive analytical system designed to enhance nutritional performance
- Artémis Laboratoire is a reference laboratory that has established itself as the leading French provider of animal nutrition services. Its wide range of analytical services and the reliability of its results ensure data consistency across all Mixscience services.
- Robust and accurate NIR calibrations: nearly 400 calibrations cover raw materials, forages, and finished products. The teams continuously develop new calibrations in close collaboration with Mixscience’s R&D department.
- Automation of analytical result workflows: data from the laboratory or NIR is directly integrated into formulation and synthesis tools. Teams gain in speed, reliability, and traceability.
- Specialized technical support: laboratory analysis experts interpret results, adapt methods and control plans, conduct audits, and take into account each client’s specific constraints.
