- Forage quality is essential for effective animal husbandry, affecting the nutritional value of animal products, which underscores the need for efficient forage analysis techniques.
- Traditional methods of assessing forage quality are often complex, slow, and costly, while near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) offers a faster, cheaper, and non-destructive alternative for analyzing forage composition.
- NIRS can accurately determine both conventional and non-conventional components of forage and is increasingly recognized for its ability to assess bioavailability and predict botanical composition, enhancing its role in forage analysis.