Here again, we strive for balance with high quality feeds, supplemented with available high quality minerals and vitamins. High quality feeds have more minerals in balance along with more animal usalbe energy. High quality forages are a result of mineralized healthy soils. When it comes to livestock health and productivity, using an ounce of prevention gives you fewer problems, more profit, and puts the fun back in farming. With technology, we can measure the numbers.
Soils tests yield measurable numbers.
A penetrometer measures soil condition. A refractometer measures plant health. But more important, with your farmer's common sense and stewardship ethic, you smell it when you work the soil and inhale that earthy aroma resulting from the respiration of more than 1,000 pounds per acre of actinomycetes. You feel it by digging. Healthy soil is crumbly to the touch.