RFW Programme
DAY 1
Monday
2 March 2020 RFW - SESSION 1 08:00 Arrival and registration 09:00 Welcoming and opening
- Feedfirst 09:10 Introducing NDS
- Mr Kenneth Botha, Director of Ruminant Nutrition & Feed Mills, Barnlab 09:20 Ruminant modelling, a reality or fiction?
- Dr Ermanno Melli, NDS Italy 10:00 CNCPS biology and NDS - an update
- TBC Tea/Coffee break RFW - SESSION 2 11:20 Amino acids in ruminants: Where are we?
- TBC 12:00 Nitrogen and P excretion efficiencies as parameter to decrease polution
- TBC 12:30 Formulating protein pools in practice on NDS
- Dr Ermanno Melli, NDS Italy 13:00 Lunch break RFW - SESSION 3 14:00 Rumen acidosis and the effect on the animal's rumen function and nutrient digestibility
- Dr Martin Van der Leek, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria 14:30 Fiber pools and digestibilities
- Dr Emiliano Raffrenato, NDS Italy 15:00 Rumen pH Model in NDS
- Dr Ermanno Melli, NDS Italy 15:30 Tea break RFW - SESSION 4 16:00 Rumen passage rate vs total tract digestibilities
- Dr Emiliano Raffrenato, NDS Italy 16:30 Rumen fill and dry matter intake in NDS
- Dr Ermanno Melli, NDS Italy DAY 2
Tuesday
3 March 2020 RFW - SESSION 5 08:00 Starch digestabilities and modeling
- TBC 08:40 Ruminants: Optimum sugar levels
- TBC 09:20 Wildlife Nutrition - Facts & Fiction
- Dr Hinner Köster, Ruminant Nutrition Consultant (Kaonne Group) DAY 3
Wednesday
4 March 2020 RFW - SESSION 6 14:30 Sheep Nutrition: New trends in intensive sheep operations
- TBC 15:00 Feedlot Nutrition: Beef & Sheep Feedlot modelling to optimize profits
- TBC 15:30 Veterinarian Benchmarking to improve Nutrition in Dairy and Beef operations
- Dr Martin Van der Leek, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria DAY 4
Thursday
5 March 2020 RFW - SESSION 7 11:30 - 13:15 Practical session on Ruminant modelling*
- Dr Ermanno Melli, NDS, Italy
The following topics are addressed in the practical session:
- Setting up your NDS model
- Raw material matrixes and digestabilities in the model
- CNCPS biology in a model & nutrient benchmarking for ruminants
- NDS demonstration - SA examples
- Non-linear optimization with NDS
* Delegates to provide own notebooks for practical session. DAY 5
Friday
6 March 2020 RFW - Commercial Science applications
~ Sponsored session 08:00 The role of organic minerals in ruminants
- TBC 08:20 The role of probiotics in ruminants
- Sponsored by Envarto 08:40 The use of "bypass" fats in ruminants
- TBC 09:00 The role of Amino Acids in ruminant nutrition
- Sponsored by Innovad 09:20 Tea break 09:40 The role of buffers in Ruminants
- TBC 10:00 The role of palatability enhancers in ruminants
- TBC 10:20 The role of Mycotoxin binders in dairy nutrition
- TBC 10:40 Feed analysis service to the industry
- TBC 11:00 Wrap up & closing of the Ruminant Formulation Workshop
- Mr Kenneth Botha, Director Ruminant nutrition & feed mills, Barnlab RFW - NDS Consultation* 11:05 - 12:00 Session A: RFW delegates (company) to book a private session with Dr Melli 12:00 - 13:00 Session B: Dr Melli - private session with Individual company 13:00 Lunch 13:30 - 14:30 Session C: Dr Melli - private session with Individual company 14:30 - 15:30 Session D: Dr Melli - private session with Individual company * RFW delegates can book an individual session with NDS (Dr Melli) to discuss formulation issues at company level.
Contact Mr Kenneth Botha directly to make a booking @ 082 894 1488
