The 2000 NRC Beef Model program was recently upgraded to enable its functionality on newer computer operating systems, thanks to Dr. Luis Tedeschi, Associate Professor of Animal Science at Texas A&M, and a member of the National Animal Nutrition Program.
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NRC - Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle
Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle is a virtual calculator for nutrients. The application features Inputs, Reports, Ration, and Feeds which means you have the possibility to define all the parameters before running the full simulation within the program.
- Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
- Home page:www.nap.edu
- Last updated: September 15th, 2008
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Spartan Dairy
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Spartan Dairy 3 is a Windows-based, stand-alone computer program for use in evaluating and formulating diets for dairy cattle. It was designed to formulate reasonable diets in a relatively short period of time using the latest science.Main features:- A stand-alone program that runs on Windows 7 (64-bit), Vista, or XP- Spreadsheet interface etc.
- Publisher: Michigan State University
- Home page:www.spartandairy.msu.edu
- Last updated: August 22nd, 2011
NRC - Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle
NRC - Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle is a free program that explores the impact of cattle's biological, production and environmental diversities, as well as variations on nutrient utilization and requirements. It expands on the descriptions of cattle and their nutritional requirements taking management and environmental conditions into consideration.
- Publisher: National Research Council
- Home page:www.nap.edu
- Last updated: May 8th, 2014
AminoCow
The amino acid supply calculations have been field tested and validated with the latest dairy nutrition research.AminoCow® is a simple, common-sense approach to generating sound dairy rations that can help improve the life and productivity of your dairy cows.
- Publisher: Nittany Dairy Nutrition
- Home page:www.nittanydairynutrition.com
- Last updated: August 14th, 2012
milkfas
milkfas is a dairy accounting program designed for milk collecting dairies and chilling plants. You can prepare weekly/10 days/random period milk purchase bills, sales of cattle feed and other articles to farmers and others on credit and cash, profit and loss statements, balance sheets.
- Publisher: Shweta Software Systems, Baroda, India
- Home page:www.shwetasoftware.com
- Last updated: November 12th, 2014
DRS for Windows
DRS for Windows continues over 20 years of ACS Computer Services' dedication to providing up-to-date, comprehensive nutrition and ration balancing software to the dairy industry. Version implements the 2001 NRC Nutrient Guidelines for Dairy Cattle.Reports may be distributed to clients in PDF format as email attachments.
- Publisher: ACS Computer Services
- Home page:www.acsdrs.com
- Last updated: March 1st, 2010
Easy Recipe Deluxe
Easy Recipe Deluxe allows you to manipulate different cookbooks at the same time. Their recipes can be classified by category, ingredients, and cuisine style. You can specify the amount of ingredients, preparation comments, and add pictures. The program automatically calculates the nutrition values. You can plan meal regimens and calculate shopping lists' total costs.
- Publisher: WenSoftware
- Home page:www.wensoftware.com
- Last updated: March 12th, 2008
CamDairy
CamDairy is a computer model designed to help farm advisers, farmers, students and research scientists who are interested in the nutrition of dairy cows. It can be used to predict milk production from information describing the physiological status of cows and the feeds offered to them. This is a valuable way of identifying constraints to production.
- Publisher: EpiCentre
- Last updated: November 23rd, 2011
NDS Professional
NDS Professional is a computer platform designed to support field nutritionists in making the appropriate nutrition decisions. The program provides the following components:- Cattle Model (Dairy and Beef)- Optimizer (linear and non-linear)- RUM&n Feed Library- CNCPS FeedBank pre-loaded.
- Publisher: RUM&N Sas
- Home page:www.rumen.it
- Last updated: November 13th, 2014
NittanyCow
NittanyCow was designed to provide a dairy ration balancing evaluation.NittanyCow also offers the unique ability to monitor the impact of mycotoxins on dairy rations, and the ability to create custom fields to track any nutrient important to your business.
- Publisher: Nittany Dairy Nutrition
- Home page:www.nittanycow.com
- Last updated: June 10th, 2015
Frenchdiet
Frenchdiet is a nutrition program for tracking the nutritional intake and estimating the ideal weight. Food entry is very easy with several food search tools, and custom foods, meals and recipes. Several detailed analyses are proposed.
- Publisher: Diondine
- Home page:www.diondine.com
- Last updated: August 24th, 2012
Nutrition
Nutrition Software is an educational program which allows you to gain more control over your healthy lifestyle. The program provides information on nutritional therapy, best foods, megavitamin and megamineral therapy(also known as orthomolecular therapy), acid-base balance and nutrients.
- Publisher: Zentrum Publishing
- Last updated: March 10th, 2011
Nutrition Manager
Got a headache worrying about all the paperwork and government requirements that come with participating in the USDA Child and Adult Food Care Program (CACFP)? Then, take a closer look at Nutrition Manager. Nutrition Manager is a comprehensive food management program designed specifically for centers that participate in the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).
- Publisher: Personalized Software, Inc
- Home page:www.childcaremanager.com
- Last updated: July 11th, 2011
Wise Program Uninstaller
Wise Program Uninstaller can quickly uninstall programs from your Windows PC. Its built-in scan engine will scan and delete all the leftover files, folders and registry items after the de-installation, making sure the software is completely removed from your computer.
- Publisher: WiseCleaner team
- Home page:www.wisecleaner.com
- Last updated: March 14th, 2019
Calculator Plus
This program is a great utility for everyone, it is a better and complete version of the windows calculator.This one has a lot of great mathematical and conversion functions which are not easy to find all in one program. You can choose from three types of calculators:the standard, scientific and the conversion calculator.
- Publisher: Microsoft
- Last updated: February 14th, 2008
Hourly Analysis Program
Carrier's Hourly Analysis Program is two powerful tools in one package. HAP provides versatile features for designing HVAC systems for commercial buildings. It also offers powerful energy analysis capabilities for comparing energy consumption and operating costs of design alternatives. By combining both tools in one package significant time savings are achieved.
- Publisher: National Institute of Building Sciences
- Home page:www.wbdg.org
- Last updated: September 28th, 2017
DietCheck
DietCheck is a program that puts you in control of your feeding decisions. It provides a simple interface that can be accessed by nutritionists, farmers, vets, and consultants for feeding advice on dairy cows, growing cattle (dairy, beef and suckler), pigs (swine), and poultry.
- Publisher: DietCheck
- Home page:www.dietcheck.co.uk
- Last updated: December 11th, 2016
Nutrition Maker
Nutrition Maker is the smart answer for nutrition guidance, meal planning, establishing calorie intake, diet consultation, and weight loss! All designed to improve productivity and simplify your nutrition consults.Trainers and nutrition professionals provide daily motivation and expertise.
- Publisher: BioEx Systems, Inc.
- Home page:www.bioexsystems.com
Published online 2013 Jul 8. doi: 10.3945/an.113.003822
PMID: 23858096
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Background
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, previously the Food Stamp Program), administered by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service, is our nation’s primary food security safety net. Currently serving >46 million Americans (∼1 in 7) living in 21.1 million households each month, the overarching goal of the program is to improve access to healthy foods for low-income individuals and households. With an annual price tag exceeding $75 billion, SNAP is re-evaluated, revamped, and reauthorized by Congress every 5 y as part of the Farm Bill, the current version of which expired in September 2012. Because of lack of closure and consensus, however, the Farm Bill was ultimately extended until September 2013 as part of the American Taxpayer Relief Act. As such, debate continues as to what the future holds for SNAP and those it serves.
One factor that remains an area of active debate relates to how the adequacy of the SNAP allotment of foods and beverages should be evaluated. For instance, some argue that the time needed to purchase and prepare foods from basic ingredients as described in the “Thrifty Food Plan” (TFP) on which SNAP allotments are based should be considered when assessing the adequacy of SNAP. In response to this ongoing debate and as part of the government’s continuing assessment of its food assistance programs, the USDA asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to conduct a study “to examine the feasibility of defining the adequacy of SNAP allotments.” In other words, the USDA asked the IOM to determine whether SNAP adequacy could be objectively defined, and if so, what factors (including new data) would need to be considered. The outcome of this study was published in 2013 in the IOM and NRC’s joint report entitled Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Examining the Evidence to Define Benefit Adequacy, and a summary is provided here.
Process
To meet its objectives, the IOM assembled a committee of experts chaired by Dr. Julie Caswell, professor of resource economics and chair of the Department of Resource Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This committee was assembled twice for all-hands meetings held in 2012 and worked with experienced librarians at the George E. Brown Jr. Library of the National Academies to conduct a comprehensive review of the current evidence of peer-reviewed and selected nonpeer-reviewed publications. Specifically, they identified and summarized publications related to how SNAP adequacy is influenced and might be codified. From this systematic review of the literature, committee members developed a framework illustrating the process by which households make food choices and how SNAP characteristics affect this process. In turn, they were able to identify factors that theoretically might affect whether SNAP goals are met to ultimately determine the feasibility of defining allotment adequacy. Importantly, the committee did not focus its efforts on outlining how SNAP participation might be encouraged, but instead on issues related to how SNAP participants’ attributes and actions may affect the adequacy of the benefits that they receive.
The committee identified myriad factors that might modulate whether the goals of SNAP are likely actualized; as such, these factors would likely need to be considered when attempting to define SNAP adequacy. These characteristics include total resources (financial and time), individual and household characteristics (e.g., dietary knowledge and culinary skills), environmental factors (e.g., location and transportation), and various characteristics of SNAP (e.g., eligibility criteria) that influence the process through which participants may or may not meet programmatic goals.
Conclusions and recommendations
On review of the literature and construction of their conceptual framework, the committee formulated 3 conclusions and several coordinate recommendations.
- Conclusion 1: Importantly, the expert committee concluded that the adequacy of SNAP allotments can indeed be defined in an objective manner, but doing so will require identification of factors that affect participants’ ability to ultimately attain food security and access a healthy diet.
- Conclusion 2: They also concluded that, because the adequacy of SNAP allotments is influenced by individual, household, and environmental factors, these variables must be included in the definition of SNAP adequacy. For instance, because the time requirements implicitly assumed by the TFP are inconsistent with the time available for meal preparation in most households, most SNAP participants must often purchase expensive prepared “value-added” foods. As such, the current value of the SNAP allotment substantially limits the flexibility and purchasing power of SNAP benefits.
- Conclusion 3: Their final major conclusion was that the adequacy of SNAP allotments is influenced by various program characteristics. For instance, the maximum SNAP benefit may not be adequate to allow participants to purchase sufficient foods. Furthermore, it is possible that assumptions used to estimate the percentage of household income typically spent on food may be outdated. These facts can substantially affect SNAP adequacy.
In response to these conclusions, the committee recommended that the influence of relevant individual, household, and environmental factors on SNAP participants’ purchasing power be given the monetary value of their SNAP benefits. Furthermore, programmatic factors such as maximum benefit guarantee and benefit reduction rate should be re-evaluated using contemporary national statistics. In addition, ongoing research should be established to monitor and evaluate important SNAP-related parameters such as nationwide food insecurity, dietary intake adequacy among SNAP participants, and nutrition education effectiveness in at-risk populations.
For more information
Free copies of this report are available at http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/Supplemental-Nutrition-Assistance-Program-Examining-the-Evidence-to-Define-Benefit-Adequacy.aspx. The Food Stamp Acts of 1964 and 1977 are available at http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/rules/Legislation/pdfs/PL_88–525.pdf and http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/rules/Legislation/pdfs/PL_88–525a.pdf, respectively. The Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 is available at http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/rules/Legislation/pdfs/PL_110–246.pdf.
Articles from Advances in Nutrition are provided here courtesy of American Society for Nutrition