Formulating with non-linear nutrients

A non-linear methodology helps nutritionists formulate diets that are closer to true animal requirements. The non-linear nature of dietary fat inclusion in broiler diets is the example used in in this article. Traditionally, feed formulation is achieved through the use of linear programming (LP). LP is an effective and powerful tool, but all of its outcomes are based on the assumption that the data used is both linear and additive. There are numerous examples in animal nutrition in which this i