In reality, yields and production is a consequence of your livestock nutrition. If you look at your farm as an organisms and everything else are components of the farm, you will start to connect the dots in healthy livestock management.
Animal manure is a primary health and production indicator. The microbes that you’ll find in the manure translate to what microbes are inside the animal.
Jerry explains a digestive system diagram that shows the process how the food converts to energy source for you and the microbes that are in your body. It shows how materials/nutrients are converted and the affect of imbalance intake of food can cause diseases such as suppressing of the immune system, lousy reproduction, low milk production and all other health issues.
What you feed to your animals or to yourself will ultimately feed the microbes.
How you can determine the quality of the food and how to translate that into productivity and healthy animals.