Dairy ration balancing
built for milk, not spreadsheets.
Build the ration, see predicted milk against the model your practice trusts, dial toward a milk target, and open RIQ-Core™ v1.3 when you need the full rumen story — not just a spreadsheet endpoint.
The ration balancer dairymen open first.
Graieva puts predicted milk at the center — simple enough for the dairy floor, deep enough for the consulting nutritionist, with feed import, prices, saved sessions, and practice overrides instead of another spreadsheet.
- Predicted milk is the headline — against the model you choose
- Blend leans conservative when NASEM and CNCPS disagree
- Drop in a vendor or lab sheet — we structure it; the math stays yours to trust
- After you sign in, you land on balancing — not a research dashboard
One model for the prediction
NASEM, CNCPS, Blend, RIQ-Core, or Blend + RIQ — choose the basis you trust, without juggling separate engines.
Your practice’s own profiles
Capture the small deviations your nutritionists already use. Name the profile, tune the knobs, and select it like any other base.
Dial toward a milk target
Set the milk you need and rebalance. Cost-aware suggestions, multi-pen runs, and push updates into recipes and pens when you’re ready.
Open RIQ-Core™ when it matters
Balance day-to-day in the language your farm already uses, then open the full mechanistic rumen story for stress, SARA risk, and efficiency.
Balance first. Audit deeper when you need to.
Graieva leads with dairy ration balancing, then opens into feed intelligence, herd analytics, and API access — all driven by RIQ-Core™ v1.3.
Ration Balancing
CNCPS, NASEM, Blend, RIQ, and practice profiles — predicted milk first, hit targets, update pens and recipes.
Learn moreGraieva Feed Intelligence
Proprietary feed library, recipe builder, Biological Twin cold-start, and cache audit.
Graieva Herd Analytics
Portfolio audits, alerts, uncertainty, sensitivity, and engine regression tooling.
Graieva API
Programmatic access to mechanistic simulation, benchmarks, and tenant-scoped data.
Learn moreWhat RIQ-Core is — and what it isn’t.
Dairymen and nutritionists deserve a straight answer. RIQ-Core™ is Graieva’s proprietary ruminant intelligence engine: a full-tract mechanistic solver we built to capture the dynamics that static CNCPS-style tables leave on the table. It is our model — transparent enough to audit, powerful enough to couple into ration balancing — not a borrowed logo on old math.
What it is
- A real mechanistic engine
Coupled differential equations on a 6-minute step for 300 hours — rumen N, microbial biomass, protozoa, and ammonia evolving together, not a single lookup row.
- Built after CNCPS — not as CNCPS
We designed RIQ-Core™ as a newer, more open alternative to factor-table engines: dynamic pools, passage that moves with DMI/BW, and outputs you can audit.
- The deep biology behind Graieva
When you open the full rumen story from balancing — or dig into alerts, flux, and uncertainty — this is the engine behind those answers: mass-balance checked, versioned, and comparable to legacy baselines.
- Open where it matters to clients
See the equations, residuals, and side-by-side checks against CNCPS/NASEM. You should understand why a number moved — not just that it did.
What it isn’t
- Not CNCPS itself
We are not CNCPS v6.5, not a CNCPS license, and not a skin over someone else’s proprietary factor model. Comparisons exist so you can judge agreement and divergence honestly.
- Not a black-box milk AI
RIQ-Core is deterministic biology math. Learning may help cold-start feed kinetics elsewhere; the core solver is mechanistic.
- Not the only way to balance a ration
Daily balancing still lets you predict against CNCPS, NASEM, Blend, or your practice’s own model. RIQ is there when the rumen’s path — not only the endpoint — matters.
- Not “magic better numbers” without context
Weather, feed chemistry, and animal inputs still drive outcomes. RIQ-Core makes the biology visible so you can adjust the diet with eyes open.
RIQ-Core™ in one card
Think of CNCPS/NASEM as the languages many farms already balance in. Think of RIQ-Core™ as the living rumen model underneath Graieva — integrating intake, microbes, urea recycle, VFA/pH, methane, and N fate over a 300-hour horizon so you can see stress, inefficiency, and opportunity that a static sheet will miss.
- Horizon
- About two weeks of rumen dynamics, minute-scale steps
- Core loops
- Rumen N · bacteria · protozoa · ammonia
- What you see
- Microbial protein, pH/VFA, methane, manure N
- When you use it
- From balancing, or when you dig into deeper biology
How it fits ration balancing
Most days you pick CNCPS, NASEM, Blend, or a practice profile and aim at a milk target. When you want the living rumen story — heat load, microbial protein, SARA risk, methane — you open RIQ-Core™. Same farm. Clearer biology.
A living rumen model — not a spreadsheet wrapped in a UI.
RIQ-Core™ v1.3 integrates four coupled differential equations on a fine time step across hundreds of hours, capturing dynamics that static factor models miss: urea recycling under low rumen ammonia, protozoal predation of bacteria, and passage rates that move with intake and body weight.
dR/dt — rumen N + urea recycle − microbial uptake − passagedB/dt — microbial biomass − protozoal predation − passagedP/dt — protozoal pool with predation efficiency εdNH₃/dt — deamination + urea − uptake − absorption
What the engine tracks every 6 minutes
Over 300 hours, these loops converge to a steady state. RIQ-Core™ v1.3 captures that state — and the path to get there — in under a second per pen.
Balance the ration. Prove the biology. Audit the portfolio.
Start with day-to-day balancing. Open the deeper rumen tools when you need uncertainty, sensitivity, or herd-wide economics.
Dairy ration balancing
Predict milk against CNCPS, NASEM, Blend, RIQ, or your practice profile. Aim at a milk target and push updates to pens.
Pen-level alerting
SARA exposure, low N efficiency, urinary-N ammonia, methane intensity, WEV confidence and mass-balance residuals — with action recommendations.
Rumen pH / VFA dynamics
VFA mass balance with saliva + ration buffer capacity. SARA flag triggers when pH spends > 3 h/day below 5.8.
Enteric CH₄ + manure-N split
Tier-2 methane that shifts with acetate:propionate, plus mechanistic fecal vs urinary N partition for sustainability scoring.
Monte Carlo uncertainty
Sample feed chemistry from lab CVs and get P10 / P50 / P90 envelopes on the 300-hour traces — see when a recommendation is robust.
Sensitivity / tornado
Perturb each kinetic parameter ±10% and rank impact on MCP flow, N efficiency, and predicted methane. Know which inputs matter.
CNCPS vs RIQ-Core™
Side-by-side checks so you can see where RIQ-Core™ agrees with legacy baselines — and where dynamic biology diverges.
Biological Twin
pgvector cold-start: embed a new feed and pull blended kinetics from the anonymized Global Commons. No more guessing kd/kp.
Portfolio Audit
Rank every pen across every client by economic loss in one click. Tagged findings, herd rollups, and exportable narratives.
Multi-tenant. RLS. Auditable.
Your proprietary feed library never leaves your tenant. Anonymized embeddings power the Global Commons, but chemistry stays yours.
Hierarchy of Truth for body weight
Scale → genetic prior (Bayesian shrinkage) → WEV inverse solver. Confidence < 0.6 raises a 'go check the pens' alert.
Per-tenant security
Postgres row-level security with a SECURITY DEFINER access helper. No cross-tenant leakage; benchmarks enforce a k-anonymity floor.
Steady-state cache
Diet × kinetics × version → cached steady state. Kinetics edits invalidate just the 276–300 h window, not the whole trace.
Audit-ready exports
Equation registry, mass-balance report, and 300-hour CSV trace — one click from any pen.
License + head. Built for one pen or 100,000.
Tier license for access. Flat $0.007 per milking cow per day — no volume ladder. Herd for a single site, Studio for consultancies.
Trial
14 days · 1 user · full engine access
- Dairy ration balancing (CNCPS / NASEM / custom)
- RIQ-Core™ v1.3 mechanistic engine
- Regional benchmarks & Biological Twin
Herd
license/mo · + $0.007/cow/day · 3 users
- $0.007/cow/day head meter
- Ration balancing + milk targets
- One workspace (your dairy or site)
- Economic leakage + alerts
Click card to estimate with this plan
Get startedStudio
license/mo · + $0.007/cow/day · 5 users · up to 25 workspaces
- Same $0.007/cow/day on cows you bill
- Ration balancing across client workspaces
- Up to 25 client workspaces
- Portfolio audit across clients
Click card to estimate with this plan
Open dashboardEnterprise
Co-ops · integrators · genetics
- Negotiated license + head meter
- Custom Biological Twin regions
- SLA + dedicated support
- Multi-site cow rollups
Estimate your monthly bill
Select Herd or Studio above (or here). License + $0.007/cow/day · 30-day month
RIQ-Core™ runs a 300-hour mechanistic integrator — not a static CNCPS shell. If factor tables are enough, legacy tools are fine.
Graieva API — licensed RIQ-Core™ access (Coming Soon)
Embed the mechanistic engine in your own product. Priced separately from Herd/Studio SaaS. View full API overview →
- Developer — $199/mo · 10,000 calls includedSandbox keys, /simulate and /wev, rate-limited, non-production SLA
- Production — $990/mo · 100,000 calls includedProduction API keys, full RIQ-Core endpoint suite, 99.5% SLA
- Enterprise API — contactDedicated capacity, custom regions, Biological Twin RPC, white-label options
Studio workspace volume discounts (consultancies)
- 5–14 workspaces: 5% off annual Studio billing
- 15–24 workspaces: 10% off annual Studio billing
- 25–49 workspaces: 15% off annual Studio billing
FAQ
What is RIQ-Core™, really?
RIQ-Core™ is Graieva’s own living rumen model — tracking nitrogen, microbes, protozoa, acidity, methane, and manure nitrogen over time. It was built as a newer, more auditable alternative to static CNCPS-style tables. It is not CNCPS itself, not a CNCPS license, and not a black-box milk AI. Day-to-day balancing can still use CNCPS or NASEM; RIQ is the deeper biology when you need it.
Can I balance against CNCPS, NASEM, or our own numbers?
Yes. Choose NASEM, CNCPS, Blend (leans conservative when the two disagree), RIQ-Core, Blend + RIQ, or a profile your practice owns. One choice drives the milk prediction.
Is this another CNCPS shell?
No. Day-to-day balancing speaks CNCPS and NASEM fluently, but RIQ-Core™ v1.3 is our own mechanistic engine — urea recycling, protozoal predation, and dynamic passage included. Side-by-side comparisons are there when you want to audit the science.
How is uncertainty handled?
Monte Carlo mode samples feed chemistry from your lab CVs and returns P10 / P50 / P90 envelopes on every 300-hour trace. Tornado mode ranks ±10% perturbations of every kinetic parameter against MCP, N efficiency, and CH₄.
Where does cold-start kinetics come from?
The Biological Twin RPC searches a pgvector index of anonymized global feeds and returns blended kinetics weighted by similarity. Your proprietary chemistry is never exposed to other tenants.
Balance the ration. Trust the milk number.
Sign in, pick CNCPS, NASEM, Blend, or your practice profile, and aim at a milk target — with RIQ-Core™ ready when you need the deeper rumen story.