First cutting is starting to come in for NIRS analysis here at Ward Laboratories, INC. That means it’s the season for making hay! So, let’s take a look at how agricultural testing can help producers make quality hay from seeding [...]
When temperatures dip, it is important to provide extra nutrients at the right time to help livestock fight cold stress. Cold stress occurs when the environmental temperature is below the animals lower critical temperature. The lower critical temperature is reached [...]
As we move closer and closer to winter and some producers still haven’t put their hay up, I have received a growing number of questions about windrow grazing. The typical question I am asked as a feed testing consultant is [...]
Summer has arrived, for livestock producers heat stress is something they face each year. Cattle not well equipped to handle heat stress and are usually grazing or in a feedlot during this time of year. Unlike swine and poultry who [...]