At Eagle Butte Ranch we strive to produce the highest quality of hay. Our hay is grown without the use of herbicides or insecticides. We use compost and sustainable management to create a quality product that tests high in nutrition. Every cutting is individually tested by Equi-Analytical Laboratories giving us the full nutritional value of every crop.

Our fields are not a mono-culture, a practice seen often in this age of chemicals. It is standard to apply a pre-emergent to a field before planting, which is nothing less than a poison to kill all potentially competing plants. Once planted, the only crop to grow is what was seeded. Besides killing the microbes in the soil, creating a ‘dead soil’ environment, the crop is nutritionally incomplete. When feeding this to your animals, you are missing the important nutritional compliments to a diet that a wide variety of other plants can offer.

For example, it would be similar to limiting your diet to only one vegetable. If you only eat green beans, you would miss the vitamins and minerals that other vegetables provide. Our grass and hay contain all the valuable variety of plants that come from a balanced environment. Dandelions, plantain, multiple grass species, clover, alfalfa, birdsfoot trefoil, and many other important plants can be found. This is what allows our hay to test with such high marks from the laboratory.

We grow natural certified weed-free hay. The weeds are individually managed, eliminating the need for dangerous weed killers. Testing shows that our hay is of the highest quality grass which makes for great forage for working animals that are being fed in areas requiring certified hay. We bale small squares, each around 65 pounds, and round bales, each around 1,300 pounds. Hay delivery is available, additional fees do apply.