Grazingland Animal Nutrition Laboratory

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Established in 1995, The Grazingland Animal Nutrition Laboratory (GAN Lab) provide the livestock and natural resource industry means to monitor the nutritional status of free ranging herbivores, livestock and wildlife via manure analysis.

📣Career Development Opportunity📣Join the Grazingland Animal Nutrition Lab to gain hands on experience in animal nutritio...
01/13/2025

📣Career Development Opportunity📣

Join the Grazingland Animal Nutrition Lab to gain hands on experience in animal nutrition analysis using NIRS technology, perfect for students pursuing animal science and nutrition careers. Flexible scheduling available!

If interested, contact Dr. Barbara Rodrigues at [email protected]

🤠 Saddle up! We're heading to   in San Antonio, Texas and couldn't be more excited! Come visit us at Booth  #3108 at the...
01/09/2025

🤠 Saddle up! We're heading to in San Antonio, Texas and couldn't be more excited! Come visit us at Booth #3108 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center to learn about our latest work in livestock nutrition and sustainable grazing practices. Looking forward to connecting with our fellow ranching and agriculture community! 🐄

Come see Grazingland Animal Nutrition Laboratory at in San Antonio, Texas | Feb. 4 - 6, 2025

01/03/2025

What a fantastic line up of speakers! See y'all Tuesday in San Angelo!!!

Happy New Year!🎇We’re excited to announce that the Grazingland Animal Nutrition Laboratory (GAN Lab) has reopened follow...
01/02/2025

Happy New Year!🎇

We’re excited to announce that the Grazingland Animal Nutrition Laboratory (GAN Lab) has reopened following the holiday break! We are now fully operational and accepting samples for 2025.

Whether you have questions about sample submission, analysis requirements, or our services, our team is here to help. Feel free to reach out via email or phone, and we’ll be happy to assist you.

Ready to submit your samples? We’re accepting new submissions and look forward to supporting your analytical needs in the new year.

Contact us:

(254)774-6134

[email protected]

🎄 Merry Christmas from the GAN Lab Team! 🎄As we celebrate this holiday season, let’s remember what truly matters—cherish...
12/24/2024

🎄 Merry Christmas from the GAN Lab Team! 🎄

As we celebrate this holiday season, let’s remember what truly matters—cherished moments with loved ones, gratitude for the blessings of the year, and hope for what’s to come.

We want to take a moment to thank all of you—our ranchers, researchers, and partners—for your continued support and trust in our work. It’s been a privilege to serve and collaborate with you throughout the year.

Looking ahead to 2025, we’re excited to continue providing innovative solutions for grazing animal nutrition and management!

Wishing you a joyful holiday season and a New Year filled with health, success, and new opportunities!

Warm regards,
The GAN Lab Team

If you're looking to build a future in ranching or agriculture, don’t miss Generation Next: Our Turn to Ranch, a 12-week...
12/17/2024

If you're looking to build a future in ranching or agriculture, don’t miss Generation Next: Our Turn to Ranch, a 12-week online course!

Registration is open for the Generation Next: Our Turn to Ranch 12-week online course offered Jan. 27-April 20.

Decking the halls GAN Lab style! 🎄 We celebrated our annual Christmas party with games, good food, and great company. Wh...
12/16/2024

Decking the halls GAN Lab style! 🎄 We celebrated our annual Christmas party with games, good food, and great company. While we missed some of our wonderful team members, the Grazingland Animal Nutrition Lab crew made the most of our holiday gathering. From our scientific family to yours, we’re extending warm wishes for a joyous holiday season and a bright 2025! Special thanks to everyone who made this celebration possible - looking forward to another year of groundbreaking research and fantastic collaborations.

🌾 9th National Grazing Lands Conference – Expanding Grazing Horizons 🌾At this year’s 9NGLC, we were honored to present i...
12/10/2024

🌾 9th National Grazing Lands Conference – Expanding Grazing Horizons 🌾

At this year’s 9NGLC, we were honored to present in the session Tools & Technologies for Grazing Lands Stewardship, where we showcased innovative, effective tools for decision-making to ensure the long-term resilience of grazing lands and natural resources.

Topics included:
The 21st Century Grazingland Steward – Dr. Bill Fox
Advancements in NIRS for practical applications in range management – Dr. Doug Tolleson
Use of FNIRS/NUTBAL System on grazing cattle nutrition – Ms. Dudak
Innovative approach to address enteric methane emissions through FNIRS – Dr. Rodrigues
Drone technologies for natural resource monitoring – Dr. Perotto

Together, these advancements provide actionable knowledge, empowering land stewards to foster sustainable and resilient grazing systems. 🌿✨

12/10/2024

Texas A&M AgriLife-led research looks at controlling infectious disease between wildlife and livestock on shared rangeland.

Attention customers! 📢❗The lab will be closed for the holidays starting on the 23rd and will resume operations on the fi...
12/09/2024

Attention customers! 📢❗

The lab will be closed for the holidays starting on the 23rd and will resume operations on the first weekday after the New Year.

Please mail samples no later than December 16th so that they can be received before the holiday break!

❗Samples can be collected and frozen for the duration of the break, then mailed to the lab once we resume operations.❗

This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for the ranchers, farmers, and land stewards who work tirelessly to maintain healthy g...
11/28/2024

This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for the ranchers, farmers, and land stewards who work tirelessly to maintain healthy grazing lands across our communities. At the Grazingland Animal Nutrition Laboratory, we’re proud to support sustainable agriculture through our nutrition analysis services. From all of us at GAN Lab to our valued clients and partners - thank you for trusting us with your livestock nutrition needs. Whether you’re testing forage quality or monitoring herd health, we’re here to help your operation thrive. Happy Thanksgiving!🦃🐄🦌🌾


Please join us in congratulating our Assistant Research Nutritionist, Jessie Dudak, on successfully defending her Master...
11/25/2024

Please join us in congratulating our Assistant Research Nutritionist, Jessie Dudak, on successfully defending her Master’s thesis: ‘Evaluating F***l Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy and Nutritional Balance Analyzer Systems for Predicting Performance in Grazing Ruminants.’ Her research contributes valuable insights to improving livestock nutrition management and advancing agriculture techniques.🐄🎉

Check our website to learn more about our services and sampling process! 🔬Grazingland Animal Nutrition LaboratoryWebsite...
11/20/2024

Check our website to learn more about our services and sampling process! 🔬

Grazingland Animal Nutrition Laboratory

Website: Ganlab.tamu.edu

-Services and pricing information
-Additional information on nutritional monitoring
-Publications
-GAN Lab FAQ

On NUTBAL Online (nutbal.tamu.edu) you can:

-Request your sampling kit
-Submit your samples
-Track sample processing
-Access your reports

Your trusted partner in livestock nutrition at Texas A&M 🤠

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11/14/2024

Check out the article in the Oct. 2024 Rangelands Partnership newsletter Dr. Tolleson wrote!
Titled: “What? Not another grazing system study…”

“Yes, sort of. Let me explain. One of the rangeland studies that we have implemented here at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Station in the southwestern Edwards Plateau is the “Sonora Flex Project”. Briefly, it is a comparison between two different rangeland management strategies; 1) an adaptation of the Merrill Four Pasture -Three Herd grazing system, and 2) a Continuous Multi-species Grazing with Patch Burning system. Now, I know some of you will balk at calling continuous grazing a “system” but on a continuum of grazing management decision making intensity, I submit that it qualifies on the lower end. At any rate, we currently have one replication of each treatment that we started last November, and we plan to have another replication of each in place by the end of the calendar year. We have collected animal condition and production data though one production cycle for breeding Dorper ewes and mature Angora wethers. Rangeland soil and vegetation condition data has been collected on this particular set of pastures, for this study, for two years. The study is intended to be long-term and will eventually provide replicated working landscapes and a living laboratory for a variety of scientific disciplines. And, hopefully many useful documents available in the Rangelands Gateway.

We chose these two treatments for several reasons. One being that the original Merrill system pastures are still intact at the Sonora Station and this system is still in use across the region. Continuous patch burn grazing is also increasing in adoption throughout the southern plains and it is relatively easy to implement. More applied research is needed on this strategy in our savanna ecosystems. The Sonora Flex treatment involves a combination of best management practices: a) collaborative adaptive management, b) livestock grazing deferment, c) prescribed fire, d) multispecies grazing, and e) drought capacity base-herd stocking rate. We will also employ the same basic rest/rotation of the Merrill System with the exception that one pasture is designated to hold the “flex” herd. Depending on the conditions of the year, “flex” could be additional stockers, prescribed fire, additional rest, or drought relief grazing. Continuous Multi-species Grazing with Patch Burning will employ similar collaborative adaptive multi-species grazing and fire management but with no deferment.

So, even with the “flex” component, I am sure all of this sounds very familiar and not unlike any number of other grazing management studies. Understood. But, here is where this study will be a little different. We will manage both “systems” with the intent to meet established animal and land production or stewardship goals in each. So, if there will be no difference in outcomes, then why do the study? Because if a land-owner/manager implements a management strategy, theoretically they will set goals and manage to achieve them. Both of these management strategies will likely be “successful” in obtaining a desired weaning weight or mohair clip. Both should maintain a desired end of season standing crop or long-term woody plant canopy cover. What we will measure as our response variables are primarily economic inputs required to meet established production goals. How much labor or feed was required in each system? How often was I able to accumulate fuel and conduct a burn? How often did I need to apply a mechanical or chemical woody plant treatment? Etc… So, this will be as much of an economic and management study as an ecological one. And I contend that the ecological knowledge we obtain on these working landscapes, within the context of cost:benefit, will be extremely valuable to future rangeland stewards. Equally valuable will be the experience and peer to peer knowledge transfer that comes from the collaborative adaptive management aspect. Stay tuned.”

Our Grazingland Animal Nutrition Lab team was excited to attend the Texas A&M Beef Cattle Sustainability Summit! 🐂 This ...
11/12/2024

Our Grazingland Animal Nutrition Lab team was excited to attend the Texas A&M Beef Cattle Sustainability Summit! 🐂 This 2-day event brought together industry experts to explore innovative solutions for reducing beef’s environmental footprint while advancing sustainable beef production.

11/11/2024
🎃 Happy Halloween from GAN Lab! 🎃 Did you know our lab has some “spooktacular” parallels with Halloween?1. Our Science i...
10/31/2024

🎃 Happy Halloween from GAN Lab! 🎃

Did you know our lab has some “spooktacular” parallels with Halloween?

1. Our Science is Like Magic (But Better) 🪄
- While others see ordinary manure, we use NIRS technology to reveal hidden dietary secrets
- No crystal ball needed - just cutting-edge spectroscopy!

2. Animal Diet Detective Work 👻
- Our NIRS technology lets us understand grazing patterns without disturbing the animals
- It’s like being an invisible observer of nature’s dining habits

3. Treating Ranchers to Better Data 🍬
- Since 1995, we’ve been giving ranchers something better than candy - precise nutritional data
- Our NUTBAL software helps take the scary guesswork out of livestock and wildlife management

🦌 We Accept All Spooky Specimens! From pasture to prairie, we analyze samples from:
• Cattle & Horses (the classics)
• Sheep & Goats (the usual suspects)
• White-tailed Deer (the forest phantoms)
• Elk (the mountain mysteries) and so much more! Send us your samples... if you dare! 👻

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1052 Agronomy Road
College Station, TX
77840

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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