Soil Analysis for Horse Pasture

Improve the Health of Your Horse’s Pasture

Forageplus soil analysis for horse pasture provides an essential service for horse owners looking to optimise the nutritional value of their land.

By testing key elements like Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC), Base Exchange %, and essential minerals like Ca, Mg, K, P, Na, S, plus trace elements like B, Fe, Mn, Cu, and others, we give you a comprehensive understanding of your pasture’s mineral composition.

Understanding the mineral levels in your horse’s soil on your pasture is crucial to ensuring that your horse gets the optimal nutrients from the land. Our test results help you identify any imbalances in the soil and provide actionable recommendations to improve pasture health, reducing the risk of conditions like laminitis.

What We Test For:

• Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC)
• Base Exchange %
• Calcium (Ca)
• Magnesium (Mg)
• Potassium (K)
• Phosphorus (P)
• Sodium (Na)
• Sulphur (S)
• Humus
• Soil pH
• Trace elements: Boron (B), Iron (Fe), Manganese (Mn), Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn), Molybdenum (Mo), Silicon (Si)

Why Soil Testing for Horse Pasture is Important

If your horse drinks spring, pond, river, stream, or borehole water, it’s essential to ensure that the mineral content is optimal for their health. Nutrient imbalances in pasture soil can significantly affect your horse’s health, including causing metabolic disorders like laminitis.

Our soil test for horse pasture can highlight high levels of potentially harmful minerals like iron, manganese, or aluminium and provide the data needed to correct these imbalances.

By assessing your soil’s health, we can suggest adjustments to balance your horse’s nutrient intake, improve the soil structure, and promote healthy pasture growth.

Key Benefits of Soil Testing for Horse Pasture

• Identify nutritional imbalances: Understand the levels of key minerals and trace elements in your pasture soil.
• Actionable recommendations: Get advice on what to apply and when for a healthier, more productive pasture.
• Optimal pasture health: Improve grass growth, nutrient content, and overall pasture health for your horse’s benefit.
• Enhanced horse health: A healthier pasture leads to better forage, which directly impacts your horse’s health and performance.

What’s Included in the Report?

• A comprehensive analysis of 16 key elements in your soil.
• pH levels, trace elements, and mineral ratios based on the latest scientific data.
• Bespoke feeding recommendations to optimise your horse’s diet based on the test results.
• Actionable guidance on improving soil structure and promoting beneficial soil micro-organisms.

Our reports are based on Albrecht principles that help determine the optimal ratios of minerals necessary for maintaining healthy soil and pasture. This holistic approach links animal, forage, and soil management to enhance the long-term health of your land and horses.

Sampling Guidelines

To get accurate results, it’s crucial to take a representative sample. Here’s how you can do it:

1. Take samples from different spots or areas within your pasture.
2. Avoid areas near gates, feeders, or animal droppings.
3. Use clean, plastic containers and rinse them three times before collecting the sample.
4. For larger pastures, split into smaller areas and sample each one separately.

Different soil types should be sampled separately for more precise analysis.

Sample Depth:

• Pasture Land: 10cm depth is recommended for sampling.

Handling and Sending the Sample:

1. Mix your samples thoroughly in a clean plastic container.
2. Place approximately 400-500g of soil in the provided bag.
3. Send the sample back to Forageplus using the prepaid envelope or box.

For more detailed instructions, refer to the sample collection guide in your kit.

How Long Does it Take?

• Report turnaround: Typically 14-18 working days.
• Please note: During busy periods or if specific elements require retesting, it may take longer.

Delivery & Returns

• You will receive a physical kit to collect your soil sample.
• For UK customers, delivery for this service is free.
• For customers outside the UK, full instructions will be provided via email.

Why Choose Forageplus Soil Analysis for Horse Pasture?

By testing your horse’s pasture soil, you can make informed decisions about soil and pasture management to support your horse’s health. Whether you’re concerned about calcium levels, heavy metal contamination, or nitrate pollution, our tests will provide the answers you need.

Get started today and optimise your horse’s health with our soil analysis for horse pasture.

You will receive a kit for this product.  You will need to send this sample back to Forageplus.  Postage is not included for sending the sample to us.

*To avoid any extra charges due to increases in lab fees please use any analysis kit, bought from Forageplus, within 6 months of purchase.

Read more about using scientific analysis to test your horse pasture. Or you can learn about taking horse pasture soil samples for accurately identify mineral imbalances in the soil.