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dry matter
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dry matter
plant or animal tissue residue after it has been heated to a constant weight and all of the moisture in the sample has been driven off by gentle heat.

dry matter basis
a method of expressing the concentration of a nutrient or poison in a feed, by expressing its concentration in terms of the dry matter content.
dry matter intake
the feed intake, usually per day, expressed in terms of its dry matter content.


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Your cow needs about 4% of her body weight in dry matter intake (see formula) daily.
The key to this is feed conversion efficiency (FCE) which is achieved by maintaining high dry matter intakes and lightweight gains.
Statistical Analysis Dry matter intake and alkaloid concentration data were analyzed as a randomized complete block design with forage as treatment by using repeated measures ANOVA in PROC MIXED (SAS Inst.
 
 
 
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