T/XJBX 0147-2025 The implementation points for optimizing the precise feeding formula and monitoring nutritional status of beef cattle
T/XJBX 0147-2025 The implementation points for optimizing the precise feeding formula and monitoring nutritional status of beef cattle
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The production of beef cattle is evolving from experience-based husbandry to data-driven, fine-grained management. Feed costs typically account for a major proportion of total farming costs. Even minor deviations in feeding formulations and management can accumulate into significant economic losses, while also potentially triggering digestive and metabolic disorders, weight gain fluctuations, prolonged fattening cycles, and unstable slaughter quality. With the spread of large-scale farming, total mixed ration (TMR) technology, and increasingly volatile raw material prices, establishing a management mechanism that integrates "precise formulation based on nutritional needs—feeding control based on execution processes—nutrition monitoring based on result feedback—and continuous optimization based on data loops" has become a crucial pathway to improve beef cattle farming efficiency, stabilize product quality, reduce resource consumption, and minimize environmental impact. In practical production, common challenges in precise feeding of beef cattle include: missing or inconsistent basic data, failure to promptly adjust for fluctuations in raw material nutritional value, disconnect between formulation and feeding execution, crude management of feed intake and leftovers, delayed feedback on body condition and weight gain, insufficient monitoring of key nutritional indicators, and delayed abnormal warning and correction. These issues hinder the implementation of formulation optimization and prevent nutritional management from forming a verifiable closed loop. This document addresses the implementation needs of beef cattle farms (operators) in different production stages for precise feeding formulation optimization and nutrition monitoring, proposing key technical points including data collection, nutritional needs assessment, formulation optimization, feeding execution control, nutrition monitoring and early warning, and record and traceability. It emphasizes using target