Bossy Knows Best

In 2007 a dairy farmer in Vermont treated part of his fields with Sea-Crop. He said that whenever the cows were turned into the Sea-Crop treated fields to graze, the butterfat content of their milk would increase noticeably.

In 2008 a farmer in the Midwest did a test with a four acre hay field. Sea-Crop was used on one half of the field and the other half received only normal fertilization. Later in the season cattle were turned lose into the field. The cows ate the forage in the Sea-Crop treated portion of the field down to the ground before they moved over to graze on the conventionally treated half of the field. In this case the greener grass that the cows preferred was not on the other side of the fence.

In 2008 a certified organic dairy farm in the Midwest treated their hay fields with Sea-Crop. During the winter, when the dairy cows were fed on the dried hay from those fields, they ate from 25% to 30% less hay than normal because their hunger was more readily satisfied with the nutrient dense fodder. The farmer stated that he has a lot more hay left in the barn than is normal for this late in the winter.