The Forage Analysis Lab provides a broad spectrum of forage quality assay services with a strong emphasis on the application of NIRS technology. Consequently, wet chemistry assays are primarily performed for NIRS quality control or where an NIRS equation has not yet been developed.

Near Infrared Reflective (NIR):
NIR analysis is a non-destructive analytical technique for fast evaluation of the chemical composition and associated feeding value attributes of forages. Each major feed component exhibits unique absorption and reflectance characteristic patterns (prediction equations) stored in the computer's memory. NIR reports Moisture, Crude Protein, ADF, NDF, Lignin, IVDMD and Starch. From these, DM, TDN, RFV, NEL, NEG, NEM and ME can be calculated. It provides accurate results, fast turnaround time, reliability and low cost.

FOSS 6500 Near Infrared Spectrophotometer
ANKOM A200/ Daisy II Incubator
Leco Combustion Analyzer - Ward Lab
Immunoblot kit tests
RQflex Reflectometer