Farms.com Home   News

K-State Lab Can Now Analyze Forage Samples

By Mary Lou Peter
 
Kansas State University’s Analytical Lab has expanded its services and can now analyze forage samples to give farmers and ranchers a clearer picture of what their animals are consuming.
 
The lab has primarily been a meat science lab for proximate analysis, but new lab manager Katie Hargrove said services have been expanded to include mineral and fiber analysis, and nitrate testing. It is located in Weber Hall on the Manhattan campus. Among the tests offered are moisture and dry matter content, crude protein, calculated total digestible nutrient analyses and more.
 
Click here to see more...

Trending Video

Sorting Sheep Breeding Groups Comes To A Blunt End!

Video: When Hay is Your Only Mulch Option + The Dogma Free Garden is a Happy Garden

We kicked things off by sorting our Dorset and Suffolk breeding groups and putting rams in with the ewes. Breeding season is always exciting, and this is the start of another chapter for our flock. With two groups sorted, we still have two more to finish, which we’ll share in the next episode.