It's been a minute since I sampled some pasture, but I have some new results and I am quite pleased with them!

Sugar/starch *just* sneaking in under 10% (and likely lower in the morning), energy nice and low, protein normal, good feed for our good doers to have a little graze on.

At this time last year (when it was still very, very wet) we were really surprised to see starch levels in our pastures up over 3% and up to 6%! This is really high, and not good for laminitic horses (and as this was the time when Hakon had his first episode, I suspect it was a factor). I had not seen starch this high in our grasses before (or client samples for that matter), especially over multiple months of testing.

My theory is that this has something to do with waterlogging, but I haven't been able to find an explanation yet 🧐 I'm crossing my fingers that the grass has gone back to normal and that under our good management it will maintain reasonably low sugar levels on average over the year.