Ingredients

ingredients are the raw components you use to build recipes, such as corn silage, alfalfa, minerals, and additives by defining each ingredient in feedcomp, you ensure your recipes are accurate and your inventory stays up to date to help you manage your feed, you link each ingredient to its storage location on the dairy—like a lot, bay, or silage pile feedcomp tracks these quantities so you always know what you have on hand this helps you monitor usage, reduce waste, and make better reordering decisions permissions your ability to manage ingredients depends on your assigned permissions if you have feed read permissions, you can view all ingredient details to create or edit ingredients, you must have feed configuration permissions this setup ensures that only authorized team members can change your feed data, keeping your inventory and recipes accurate see edit dairy user permissions docid\ gw6zx7tfc4ihsbrtozc v and manage dairy roles docid 9yjukdzfab0kko1hw0mxj to learn more ingredient types every ingredient is assigned a type the type appears as a color coded label on the ingredient card type description dry forage vegetative material, such as stems, leaves, and stalks of plants, in a dried state that is used for feed fresh forage a crop of cultivated plants or plant parts that are grazed or harvested as feed silage preserved forage for feed, like pasture grass, alfalfa, grains, and corn, that is produced by fermenting plant matter energy high calorie feed, such as corn, sorghum, barley, and wheat protein high protein feed, such as soy and canola vitamins and minerals supplements added to feed to prevent deficiencies in dairy cows that can impact health and milk production additives products added to feed to enhance feed quality, make the feed more digestible, and improve health and performance weighback feed leftover from a prior feeding that can be added to a recipe and help reduce waste water water added to a feed mixture to improve daily milk yield key fields and terminology these fields appear throughout ingredient screens on both web and mobile dm% the dry matter percentage for the ingredient if stored in multiple locations, a separate value is shown for each af cost the as fed cost per unit or per ton "as fed" means the cost reflects the ingredient's weight including moisture content on hand amount the current quantity available at a given location, expressed in your configured unit or in tons daily af the daily as fed usage in tons days left the estimated number of days remaining before the on hand amount is depleted af projections estimated as fed usage over the next 30, 60, and 90 days ingredient usage by recipes a list of recipes using the ingredient, including dm weight per head, af weight per head, pens fed, and daily af usage units (lbs or kg) are based on your account settings see edit your user account docid\ adcj5yzybengyc6xqqec3 to change them load tolerance load tolerance is the "close enough" amount when loading an ingredient it tells feedcomp how much weight can be over or under the target before the app auto advances to the next ingredient setting a load tolerance helps you work faster instead of trying to hit an exact number with a heavy loader, feedcomp auto advances to the next ingredient once the loaded weight reaches the chosen range this keeps your loading flow smooth while making sure your animals still get the right mix you can set a different tolerance for every ingredient in your list for example, if you need 1,000 lbs of corn silage and your load tolerance is 100 lbs, feedcomp will auto advance to the next ingredient once 900 lbs or more is loaded ⚠️ important the load tolerance setting controls when the app auto updates during loading see load tolerance docid\ sptrto0udip01qypntech for important cautions before changing this setting tracking ingredients at a location when you track an ingredient location, feedcomp actively manages that inventory for you tracking starts as soon as you add stock to a location from that point on, the system continuously monitors your levels so you know exactly how much feed you have left and when it’s time to reorder feedcomp adds a new adjustment transaction to the transactions docid\ fp6exp3usbatiwfmfsiu5 page when tracking is toggled on or off the on hand amount, dm%, or af cost is updated after tracking is enabled managing ingredients for step by step instructions, see the topics below create an ingredient docid\ lgwv1amkd oa y2txr9fo add a new ingredient and assign it to a location view and search ingredients docid\ c2avo8puxjx0 5c03nyb find, sort, filter, and view ingredient cards and details edit an ingredient docid 8 hi5anca8hxdh8feg8w update fields such as dm%, cost, load tolerance, type, and time delay deactivate or reactivate an ingredient docid\ kt8bgwddvweywkjb0o0w0 deactivate or reactivate ingredients manage ingredient locations docid\ szgxeeyibtcpm2smkdst3 assign, remove, or transfer ingredients across locations, and enable tracking