VEVI-gehalte

English translation: feed units (for intensive cattle feeding systems)

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Dutch term or phrase:VEVI-gehalte
English translation:feed units (for intensive cattle feeding systems)
Entered by: Micheal Dennehy

13:16 Sep 18, 2020
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Agriculture
Dutch term or phrase: VEVI-gehalte
VEVI stands for "voedereenheid vleesvee intensief"; This Dutch prefix indicates the energy supply for beef cattle. I'm wondering if there is an equivalent measuring unit in the English-speaking world. Thanking you in advance!
Micheal Dennehy
Netherlands
Local time: 11:39
feed units (for intensive cattle feeding systems)
Explanation:
explanations:

FU (feed units, one FU being equivalent to the average energy produced by 1 kg of barley)

a unit for measuring and comparing the nutritive value of feeds. The Soviet feed unit was developed in 1922-23 by the Commission of the Veterinary Scientific Council of the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture of the RSFSR under the direction of E. A. Bogdanov. The unit was established as the nutritive value of 1 kg of average quality dry oats. The nutritive value of one feed unit, as determined by fat deposition in cattle, is 150 g of fat or 1, 414 kilocalories (5.95 megajoules).
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Feed Unit

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Note added at 1 Stunde (2020-09-18 14:53:32 GMT)
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You might also just write 'energy content'; but I'm not sure that this is actually what you're looking for
see also
https://premiernutrition.co.uk/news-insight/energy-content-f...
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Barbara Schmidt, M.A. (X)
Germany
Local time: 11:39
Grading comment
Thank you very much for this detaiied answer! Intensive feed units sounds pretty good to me!
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feed units (for intensive cattle feeding systems)


Explanation:
explanations:

FU (feed units, one FU being equivalent to the average energy produced by 1 kg of barley)

a unit for measuring and comparing the nutritive value of feeds. The Soviet feed unit was developed in 1922-23 by the Commission of the Veterinary Scientific Council of the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture of the RSFSR under the direction of E. A. Bogdanov. The unit was established as the nutritive value of 1 kg of average quality dry oats. The nutritive value of one feed unit, as determined by fat deposition in cattle, is 150 g of fat or 1, 414 kilocalories (5.95 megajoules).
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Feed Unit

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Note added at 1 Stunde (2020-09-18 14:53:32 GMT)
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You might also just write 'energy content'; but I'm not sure that this is actually what you're looking for
see also
https://premiernutrition.co.uk/news-insight/energy-content-f...


Barbara Schmidt, M.A. (X)
Germany
Local time: 11:39
Works in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you very much for this detaiied answer! Intensive feed units sounds pretty good to me!
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