Ingredients

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This page is part of the Workshop, one of three main sections of Tower Grove Feed. The other two are Setup and the Workbench. For an overview of the Workshop go to Workshop overview.

Ingredient Page Fields

Ingredient Name

The name is the primary way to identify objects in Tower Grove Feed. No two objects of the same type in the same hierarchy can have the same name, no matter what the language. The same object can have different names in different languages. The name can be changed only by the owner of the object, but any user can make the first translation of a name into another language. Objects of different types may have the same name. For example, 'salt' can be the name of both a nutrient and an ingredient. (This is only an example, and, as this is not usually a good practice, Tower Grove Feed has not used the name 'salt' this way at the system level.)

Linking to nutrients

Clicking on the name of an ingredient in this page takes you to the Nutrients for an Ingredient page where you can work with the nutrients the ingredient provides.

Code

An arbitrary short name, abbreviation, or other ID that can be used as an alternative identifier of objects. The code can be used to group objects. By default, ingredients are sorted by code. For formulas and ingredients supplied by the system, Tower Grove Feed provides a systematic coding.

Type

Ingredient Type is a descriptor used to classify and separate ingredients by kind.

Besides the Name, it has a Code and a Sort Sequence. Our standard Ingredient Types are Bulk with a code of "B", Micro with "M", Hand add with "H", and Liquid with "L".

The Batch report uses the Ingredient Type to sort, separate and subtotal the ingredients in the formula solution.

Users can add new Ingredient Types and change the Sort Sequence of the standard types, but deleting the standard Types or changing their Codes is not a good idea because future modifications to the Batch Report may use the standard Types and Codes in special, predefined ways.

Cost

Ingredient cost is for a specified amount of the ingredient. The amount is specified as the cost unit. Typically the cost is the cost per ton (1000 kg or 2000 lb). To learn how to override the cost unit click here.

Ingredient Owner

Every object has an owner. The owner is a control level. When you create an object, the owner is the level you are at. An object may subsequently be moved to another level, using the Copy or move page.

Workshop overview

The Workshop is one of three main sections of Tower Grove Feed. The other two are the Workbench and the Setup.
The Workshop provides access to the information you normally need in setting up formulas. By default, when you log in, you arrive at the formula list, which you can return to from other Workshop pages by clicking the Formulas tab. The formula list provides access to the Workbench where you can work on a particular formula.

The two other pages in the Workshop are the Ingredients and the Formula defaults pages. (Note: There are two additional tabs on the Workshop page, but these tabs take you to pages outside of the Workshop.)

The list of tabs in the Workshop are as follows:

Workshop tabs

Formulas

The list of formulas (diets) that you have access to at the current control level. To get to the Workbench for a particular formula, click on the name of that formula.

Ingredients

An editable list of ingredients. All formula ingredients must exist in this master ingredient list.

Defaults

The Formula Defaults page includes fields that control the solution calculation or the appearance of formulas.

Setup

The Setup area provides access to nutrients, species, control levels, ingredient types, user profile information, control level defaults, and the copy/move facility.

Workbench

This tab takes you to the last formula you were working on in the Workbench.