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🎃 Halloween is back at Ward Labs! 👻 Our team went all out for this year's Pumpkin & Costume Contests, with spooky carvings, hilarious costumes, and serious breakroom ballot competition. (No, nothing was rigged 😇) Congrats to all our winners! 🧡🖤 #Halloween #WhyWard

Wrapping up the week with Part 4! 🌾 Rebecca Kern-Lunbery covers new wet chemistry features for #RationFormulation - mineral sufficiency, mixer issue detection, & ration consistency across samples. Watch: bit.ly/47PKfnO #FeedTesting #LivestockNutrition #MineralNutrition

Your forage test can tell you if your animals’ mineral needs are being met & now it’s easier to see where the gaps are. Part 3 of this week’s series: Rebecca Kern-Lunbery covers new #NIRS features & #MineralSufficiency reporting. 📹: bit.ly/4yOivLg #FeedTesting

Let this be our reminder to add nitrate testing when submitting you hay report! #WhyWard #ForageTesting #HayAnalysis bit.ly/4jJXvBl

Pet treat producers - this one’s for you! 🐾 Part 2 of this week’s series: Rebecca Kern-Lunbery covers our F-14 and F-11 test packages, calorie calculations, and the new Nutrition Facts report for labeling. 📹 Watch: bit.ly/3UMWuyq #FeedTesting #PetTreats #PetNutrition

One feed test, many species & now your report reflects that! Part 1 of this week’s series: Rebecca Kern-Lunbery explains how our new species-specific reports tailor energy values for poultry, swine, ruminants, horses, and pets. #FeedTesting #AnimalNutrition #LivestockNutrition

Feed testing reports at Ward Labs just got an upgrade!🐮 This week, Becca Kern-Lunbery breaks down what’s new: animal-specific calculations, pet treat Nutrition Facts, mineral sufficiency reports, and more. Stay tuned all week! #FeedTesting #AnimalNutrition #FeedAnalysis

Meet Dave Beins - Special Projects Prep and Process Tech at Ward! 🌱 Before any test can produce meaningful data for a grower, someone has to make sure the sample is prepared right, and that’s Dave and his team. 🐐⚔️🥃 #FridayFaces #BehindTheResults #WhyWard

Fall is here & soil sampling season isn’t far off! 🌾 Dr. Nick Ward walks through proper soil probe technique and composite, zone, and grid sampling strategies on this week's #ThurdayThoughts. Check it out here: bit.ly/4zHM7L1 #SoilSampling #SoilHealth

"It gives you total living biomass, the relative percentages of each functional group, and a set of ratios such as fungi-to-bacteria and Gram-positive to Gram-negative." Read more here: bit.ly/4wDf5Kq

Don’t get protein tunnel vision! Use your hay report to evaluate both protein and energy when planning supplementation. Read @ProForage for our data and insights from Holly Heil of Ackerman Ag and Jake Fairley of Laird Feed. #WhyWard #HayTesting bit.ly/4yFnyOH

Meet Jordan Westengaard - QA/Sample Operations Manager at Ward for nearly 7 years! 🌱 He ensures growers get the highest quality data, helps craft brewers nail their finishes, & is currently writing a novel. Oh, & he bleeds Husker red. 🌽📖 #FridayFaces #BehindTheResults #WhyWard

Is organic matter the only key to water-holding capacity? 💧 Dr. Ray Ward explains why capturing more rainfall and reducing runoff may matter even more, & how soil aggregates make it possible. 📹: bit.ly/4zVfwll #ThursdayThoughts #SoilHealth #WaterInfiltration

Curious what PLFA actually tells you about soil biology? This blog breaks down how PLFA testing tracks active microbes and helps guide smarter management across your acres. #SoilHealth #SoilBiology bit.ly/4aTvQZI

Happy National Farmers Day. 🌱 From the Ward team to yours — thank you to every farmer and rancher who puts in the work day in and day out. Supporting growers is why we do what we do. #NationalFarmersDay #WardLaboratories #AgLife #Nebraska #ThankAFarmer

Meet Aleisha Ziegenbein - Sample Receiving Technician at Ward for 7 years! 🌱 She’s often the first stop for incoming samples, & her questions have helped customers catch serious issues before they became bigger problems. 🐴 #FridayFaces #BehindTheResults #WhyWard

Hail damaged your corn - but the nutrients may still be there.🌽 In this week's #ThursdayThoughts, Ray explains how low C:N ratio corn plants decompose, releasing #Nitrogen a cover crop can pick up quickly & can create dangerous levels for grazing. 📹: bit.ly/4rTrPM1

This month's featured blog article comes to us from our R&D Manager Dr. Bikram Das. He illuminates how PLFA continues to bring value to ag producers even as other technologies are available. #WhyWard #SoilHealth #PLFA #SoilBiology bit.ly/4aSjLnz

Meet Alissa Kosch - Sample Receiving Technician at Ward! 🌱 She's one of the first stops for every sample through the door & when she's not at work, she's on the golf course or (casually) jumping out of planes. 🪂😅 #FridayFaces #BehindTheResults #WhyWard

Building soil quality doesn’t happen overnight, it comes from small changes that compound over time. 🌱 This week’s #ThursdayThoughts covers #CoverCrops, reduced tillage, & what’s really happening beneath the surface all winter long. 📹: bit.ly/4AJCRHw