Testing for nitrates levels and sugar content gives confidence when timing and managing cutting. Grass testing allows farmers to ensure quality nutrition and optimise silage performance.
When in doubt, get your grass sampled to time silage cutting.
Quality silage underpins our winter diets for all stock. Good quality drives good performance.
Pre-cut grass testing is used to help in deciding the best time to harvest the grass for silage to ensure the optimum quality and nutrition. Testing is performed by NIRS and includes Dry Matter, Crude Protein, Nitrate N, ADF, NDF, Sugars & Buffer Capacity
Grass mineral test will identify the mineral content of their grass which will allow the farmer evaluate the dietary impact of the grass and to consider if supplements would need to be given. Testing is performed by ICP-MS and includes Calcium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Magnesium, Sulphur, Zinc, Manganese, Copper, Molybdenum, Selenium, Cobalt, Iron, and Iodine.
Detailed feed evaluation helps farmers understand forage quality and feeding value to improve livestock nutrition and farm efficiency. Testing is performed by wet chemistry.
Select from the different paddocks you want to test before beginning the grass sampling process.
See the section on Sampling to be sure you follow the correct grass sampling procedure.
Just collect samples and send them on to FBA Laboratories for professional grass analysis.
