WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Indiana Forage Council’s Hoosier Hay Contest begins Saturday, June 1, this 12 months. The pleasant competitors encourages Indiana producers to domesticate greater high quality hay throughout the 2024 season.
The competition is supported by Purdue College Extension and sponsored by SureTech Laboratories, Hutson Inc., CISCO Seeds, the Indiana Beef Cattle Affiliation, the Indiana Dairy Producers and the Indiana Sheep Affiliation.
The competition has two classes, hay or baleage, and promotes forage manufacturing, informs hay producers on the nutritive worth of their hay, and encourages producers to pattern and take a look at their hay or baleage earlier than feeding it to livestock.
“Sampling and analyzing harvested forages must be the tactic of figuring out if the forage is delivering adequate vitamins to ruminant livestock,” stated Nick Minton, Indiana Forage Council director and Purdue Extension beef techniques specialist. “The best danger of not doing so is assuming that it’s ‘good’ hay when it’s not. Manufacturing or efficiency declines consequently.”
SureTech Laboratories will analyze contestant samples and launch the outcomes to the competition organizer, producer, and the producer’s native Purdue Extension agriculture and pure assets educator. The educator and producer will then work collectively to interpret the evaluation and decide how greatest to make use of the forage.
Prize cash will go to first-, second- and third-place entries in each classes. First place will obtain $250 and a one-year Indiana Forage Council membership, and second place and third place will obtain $150 and $100, respectively. Winners can be acknowledged on the annual IFC assembly and on the IFC web site.
The associated fee to take part is $14 per hay pattern or $20 per baleage pattern, with the competition being restricted to 100 samples. Entries have to be obtained by SureTech Labs and the IFC by Sept. 30.
Guidelines and entry types might be discovered online. For extra data, contact Minton at 812-279-4330, nminton@purdue.edu, or Jason Tower at 812-678-3411, towerj@purdue.edu.
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Author/Media contact: Ashvini Malshe, 765-496-7480, malshea@purdue.edu
Sources: Keith Johnson, 765-494-4800, johnsonk@purdue.edu
Nick Minton, 812-279-4330, nminton@purdue.edu
Agricultural Communications: 765-494-8415;
Maureen Manier, Division Head, mmanier@purdue.edu
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