Recently, the University of Nebraska and Arrow Seed put on a forage production and quality clinic. Dr. Nicolas Cafaro La Menza presented data comparing summer forage quality – yield, protein, total digestible nutrients (TDN) and relative forage quality (RFQ) – [...]
Recently I had a customer say that he thought there was a perception among horse owners that timothy hay was superior to other hay species. This led to a short discussion about other species of hay commonly fed to horses [...]
At Ward Laboratories, we have always said we produce fast, accurate and reliable results and believe we do a good job balancing lab speed and quality. But what does fast really mean? Is fast 3-5 business day turnaround time? 2 [...]
Llamas and alpacas need minerals to maintain their health and productivity. Unfortunately, unlike true ruminant livestock species, we do not have a lot of research or well defined mineral nutritional requirements for camelids. But that doesn’t mean we should just [...]