Trouw Nutrition collaborates with Dutch Sprouts on developing feed advisory tool

This innovation enables farmers, integrators, compound feed industries and consultants to analyse all kind of raw materials, silages and feeds for a large range of nutrients with a mobile NIR on-site and in real-time. The NutriOpt On-site Adviser, an app on mobile phones, connects the scanner to the Trouw Nutrition's Nutrition Database and advises users on the nutritional value of the materials scanned.

Thanks to this easy- to-use mobile NIR scanner, the connection to the nutritional database and the mobile app on the mobile phones, users can take immediate decisions on quality assurance and feed formulations that will improve animal nutrition and performance.

How does this technology work?

Dutch Sprouts/SoilCares has developed scanning technology that connects to a cloud-based database to determine the chemical characteristics of soil.
The collaboration between both companies now, enlarges the application of this technique to the analysis of raw materials and feedstuffs. Through the mobile app the user gets immediate nutritional advice regarding the use of the raw material in feed formulations.

Henri Hekman, CEO and founder, Dutch Sprouts/SoilCares: "Trouw Nutrition is the perfect partner for us. They develop science based nutritional solutions and have global expertise, enabling them to provide quality assurance and new insights on the nutritional value of raw materials. This innovation will give customers instant control over their raw materials in feed."

Willem Kernkamp, Global Marketing Director, Trouw Nutrition: "With its innovative precision scanning technology, Dutch Sprouts has developed a portable, reliable and affordable NIR Scanner, which, linked to our Nutritional Data Base enables our customers to obtain better and immediate nutritional advices. It's a brilliant innovation that we gladly add to our services."