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Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle’s Winter Hay – PART 3: Receiving and Understanding your Forage Analysis Results

November 22, 2019 by Sara Wood Leave a Comment

Welcome to the final post in our 3-part blog series on Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle's Winter Hay. Please be sure to read Part 1 - Why should we care about hay quality? and Part 2 - Testing Hay Quality In Part 1, we discuss the importance of, and the need for, testing the quality of your cattle's winter hay. In Part 2, we dive into the methodology of … [Read more...] about Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle’s Winter Hay – PART 3: Receiving and Understanding your Forage Analysis Results

Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle’s Winter Hay – PART 2: Testing Hay Quality

November 4, 2019 by Sara Wood Leave a Comment

Welcome to Part 2 of our blog series on Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle's Winter Hay. Please be sure to read Part 1 - Why should we care about hay quality? Today's post will focus on the methodology of collecting a forage sample, the tools/supplies needed, and where you can send your forage sample for analysis. We live in Northern Maine and send our … [Read more...] about Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle’s Winter Hay – PART 2: Testing Hay Quality

Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle’s Winter Hay – PART 1: Why should we care about hay quality?

November 2, 2019 by Sara Wood Leave a Comment

This will be a 3-part blog series on: Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle's Winter Hay. Today's post is Part 1 - Why should we care about hay quality? (Part 2 of our series is ready to read as well! Please check it out!) Forage costs are arguably the highest expense for any cattle operation, especially for those farmers whom feed-out hundreds of hay bales … [Read more...] about Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle’s Winter Hay – PART 1: Why should we care about hay quality?

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