This Show EQINradio is talking with Katy Watts of SaferGrass.org

As a professional agricultural contract researcher and consultant, Katy Watts is in a unique position to understand and conduct studies on sugar and fructan content of forage. Destiny has also placed her in a region where sugar and fructan levels in forage are especially high due to environmental conditions.

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Katy Watts SaferGrass.org

This Show EQINradio is talking with Katy Watts

And this Exert was taken from her web site SaferGrass.org

There is a popular myth that grass hay is mostly roughage, and that the type of grass or hay being fed is not a factor in the management of horses with various conditions stemming from carbohydrate intolerance. People often think that just limiting grain is all that is necessary. The things I have learned from plant physiologists conflicts with much of the advice given on the Internet and in popular horse magazines. People are blaming ‘lush’ grass, saying that when the grass is rapidly growing is when horses are at risk. They are making erroneous assumptions that the best way to minimize risk for these horses is to stop fertilizing, turn off irrigation water, and overgraze pastures to limit intake. These practices that cause plant stress will actually INCREASE accumulation of sugars and fructans. It is my hope that the discussion here of plant physiology and grazing management can provide better information for those who need to know.

Katy Watts