“…Both vis-NIRS (Chang et al, 2005;Coûteaux et al, 2003;Fystro, 2002;Gates, 2018;Kodaira and Shibusawa, 2011;Kuang and Mouazen, 2011;McCarty and Reeves, 2006;Morellos et al, 2016;Nawar and Mouazen, 2017a;Rajendram and Devey, 2001;Vågen et al, 2006;Van Groenigen et al, 2003;Vohland et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2015;Xie et al, 2011;Yang and Mouazen, 2012) and MIR (Djuuna et al, 2011;Du et al, 2009;Gates, 2018;Janik et al, 1998;Ji et al, 2016a,b;Madhavan et al, 2016;McCarty and Reeves, 2006;Merry and Janik, 2006;Minasny et al, 2009;Rajendram and Devey, 2001;Sisouane et al, 2017;Van Groenigen et al, 2003;Vohland et al, 2014;Xie et al, 2011;Yang and Mouazen, 2012) were documented to measure TN successfully (Table 1). Fystro (2002) used vis-NIRS to predict TN, with a coefficient of determination (R 2 ) of 0.80 and a ratio of prediction deviation (RPD) of 2.1.…”