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Organic Plus Trust (OPT) Grass-fed Certification FAQs

Grazing Management: Transition to Spring Grazing

Grazing Management: Feeding for High Milk Components

Pasture Bloat Prevention and Treatment

Water: The Understated Nutrient

Water is an essential nutrient, necessary to sustain life and growth and it has a direct impact on milk production.

Prussic Acid and Nitrate Poisoning

Proper Hay Sampling

Dan Putnam of University of California, Davis, describes proper sampling of hay and forage.

Grower Pool: Relative Forage Quality

Relative Feed Value is widely used to determine when to harvest, how to allocate forage lots to animal groups according to livestock quality needs, and rank forage for sale. Using Relative Feed Value measurements alongside recommendations listed by National Research Council, growers can improve upon this quality index through use of newer analyses and equations.