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The forage project that we have been running across the UK is going to come to a close in the next couple of weeks! So we will be selecting participants to have their 2013 forage analysed for free very soon. We still need to reach ALL parts of the UK so that forage can be analysed from every...

Many thanks for your feedback. It is all useful.

No that's great thanks. Any extra information will be analysed and will contribute to the results! Many Thanks

Thanks for taking part. The main body of the questions asks what forage you feed, why you make that choice, what is important to you in terms of forage provision and a few questions about when you feed, how you feed etc. Maybe there was an error if you have only answered a few questions. It...

No we purposefully haven't focused on or included fresh forage, just preserved forage.

Re: where are you in the UK? - sorry, just noticed it says Shropshire.

Very interesting - what area of the UK are you?

Thanks for all the participants so far. The project will be running for another month or so and then we will be collating all of the findings. If you haven't already taken part then please do so. We are hoping to analyse another round of forage from all over the UK, which you can be part of...

Yes pre-packaged, short chopped fibre based products.

Brilliant thanks for this and the information.

Thank you to anyone who has completed the survey so far! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NationalPreservedForageSurvey

Yes, we are thinking of potentially focussing on producers following this. The idea of focusing on horse owners first was to gauge what horse owners are doing, considering forage is such an important part of a horses diet. The samples have shown very interesting nutritional analysis in some cases.

I think the difference in the North West will be significant. We had very average hay, quite stalky, from 2012 cut. The research has been gathering a good insight as to how and where horse owners source their forage. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NationalPreservedForageSurvey

It will be interesting to see how the different areas seem to find the difference between the two years!

How have people found the hay/haylage quality compared to last year (2012 crop compared to 2013 crop)? We are going to test some of the forage of those who complete the survey, but just wondered what people's initial thoughts were? https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NationalPreservedForageSurvey