Feed mill software built on your own ingredient database
The nutrients, the ingredients and the values are all yours to define. And where a nutrient can be worked out from the others, you write that once and let the software keep it: for the whole database, or for a single ingredient that behaves differently.
Every nutrient you work with, on your terms
Create a nutrient, name it, give it a unit, choose how many decimals it carries and put it in the group you want it in. Delete one you never use: including the ones that came with the program. There is no supplied catalogue to work around.
- Search by name or by number. Every nutrient carries a number you can type, and it means the same thing on screen and on the printed report.
- Your own categories, in your own order. Rename them, reorder them, and the ingredient list sorts the way you arranged them.
- In and out as a spreadsheet. Bring the whole table in, edit it in bulk, bring it back. An import adds and updates; it never deletes.
- Several databases side by side. One per species, per customer or per supplier, chosen and managed on the Database tab. Each keeps its own ingredients and its own values, and numbers them in its own block, so the code tells you which database an ingredient came from. Your prices and your laboratory history stay plant-wide, shared across all of them.
| Code | Ingredient | Category | ME | CP % | Ca % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Cereal Grain A | Cereals | 3,180 | 8.10 | 0.03 |
| 9 | Cereal Grain B | Cereals | 3,090 | 11.40 | 0.06 |
| 12 | Cereal By-Product | Cereal By Products | 2,180 | 12.40 | 0.07 |
| 18 | Oilseed Meal A | Oil Seed Meals | 2,240 | 45.20 | 0.29 |
| 21 | Oilseed Meal B | Oil Seed Meals | 1,940 | 34.80 | 0.68 |
| 33 | Mineral Source A | Minerals | – | – | 23.20 |
| 41 | Amino Acid A | Amino Acids | 5,320 | 58.40 | – |
| No | Nutrient | Unit | Section | Decimals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Metabolisable Energy | kcal/kg | Proximate Analysis | 0 |
| 3 | Crude Protein | % | Proximate Analysis | 2 |
| 11 | Total Phosphorus | % | Minerals | 3 |
| 20 | Dig. Lysine | % | Amino Acids | 4 |
| 39 | Total Amino Acid A | % | Amino Acids | 4 |
| 41 | Milk Energy | MJ/kg | Your own section | 2 |
| Nutrient | Equation | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen-Free Extract | dm − cp − ee − cf − ash | Whole database |
| Digestible Amino Acid A | round( Total_AminoAcid_A × 0.891, 4 ) | Oilseed Meal A only |
| Digestible Amino Acid A | round( Total_AminoAcid_A × 0.760, 4 ) | Whole database |
| Milk Energy | (me × 0.0042) − 0.29 | Whole database |
| Order | Category | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cereals | 12 |
| 2 | Cereal By Products | 6 |
| 3 | Oil Seed Meals | 9 |
| 4 | Animal Protein Meals | 4 |
| 5 | Minerals | 8 |
| 6 | Amino Acids | 5 |
| 7 | Your own category | 3 |
Write the equation once, for one ingredient or for all of them
Some nutrients are not measured, they are worked out. Write that relationship once and the software keeps the value in step, and where a single raw material follows a different rule, that one ingredient can carry its own.
- Across the whole database. One rule applies to every ingredient, so a nutrient you never measure is still right on all of them.
- Or for a single ingredient. Press ƒx on any nutrient while editing one raw material and give that ingredient its own equation: its own coefficient, not the shared one. The individual rule wins.
- Real arithmetic. Brackets, powers and remainders, and functions like square root, round, minimum, maximum and clamp: built by pressing buttons, so there is nothing to mistype.
- The result is a stored value. Every report, every comparison and the formulation itself read it exactly like a figure you typed by hand.
round( Total_AminoAcid_A × 0.891 , 4 )
reads: Total Amino Acid A × 0.891, to 4 decimals
| Ingredient | Total | Coefficient | Digestible | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oilseed Meal A | 2.8400 | 0.891 | 2.5304 | this ingredient |
| Oilseed Meal B | 1.9700 | 0.842 | 1.6587 | this ingredient |
| Cereal Grain A | 0.2500 | 0.760 | 0.1900 | whole database |
| Cereal Grain B | 0.3100 | 0.760 | 0.2356 | whole database |
Every name and figure on this screen is demonstration data. The point is the arrangement: two ingredients deriving the same nutrient from their own coefficients while the rest of the database follows one shared rule, and the software holding all of it in step for you.
It runs the rest of the mill too
Formulation is where it starts. Everything downstream of the formula: stock, purchasing, laboratory results, the sheet the mixer operator holds: is in the same program, working from the same numbers.
Stock and forecasting
Track what you hold across warehouses, see how many days of cover each ingredient has at your current production, and get the date each one runs out.
Purchasing and orders
Build a purchase order from what is actually short, with your vendor, your quantities and your rates, and print it properly. Receiving it updates stock.
Laboratory database
Record every lab sample against an ingredient and see the average, range, standard deviation and variation, then formulate on your measured values instead of a book table.
Batch mixing tickets
Turn the formula into the weighing sheet for one batch: mixing order, weight per ingredient, a running total and space to record what was actually weighed.
Premixes as ingredients
Build a premix from its parts and save it as a single ingredient with its full nutrient profile and calculated cost, ready to use in any formula.
Several plants, one program
Keep each plant’s ingredients, prices, formulas and stock completely separate, and move an ingredient between them when you need to.
| Ingredient | Incl. % | Weight | Cost/bag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maize | 62.8500 | 628.50 | 8.86 |
| Soybean Meal | 24.8500 | 248.50 | 6.28 |
| Rice Bran | 4.6000 | 46.00 | 0.44 |
| Soybean Oil | 3.2500 | 32.50 | 1.85 |
| Dicalcium Phosphate | 1.7200 | 17.20 | 0.53 |
| Limestone | 1.5500 | 15.50 | 0.03 |
| Vitamin–Mineral Premix | 0.5000 | 5.00 | 1.15 |
| Salt | 0.3800 | 3.80 | 0.02 |
| DL-Methionine | 0.1800 | 1.80 | 0.45 |
| L-Lysine HCl | 0.1200 | 1.20 | 0.27 |
| Total | 100.0000 | 1,000.00 | 19.88 |
Paperwork your client will take seriously
Every report carries your plant name, your name and your title, and prints on your own letterhead or ours. Choose exactly which sections appear, preview it inside the program, then print it or save it as a PDF.
- A technical report for you and a plain client summary for the customer, from the same formula.
- Pick the sections. Ingredients, nutrient profile, amino acids, price breakdown, category split, remarks: each one optional.
- A compact mode that fits a long report onto far fewer pages.
- A signature block and a remarks section, so the sheet that leaves your office is finished.
- Export to CSV, opens straight in Excel, when the numbers need to go somewhere else.