Reliable & Automated Animal Feed Technology | HydroGreen

Boost nutrition and production, reduce impact

Put our feed solution to work for you – achieve your economic and environmental business goals

With the touch of a button, HydroGreen Automated Vertical Pastures™ produces high-energy fresh forage at commercial scale. HydroGreen creates production efficiencies for livestock businesses while helping to reduce environmental impact and enhance stewardship outcomes. In dairy cattle, including HydroGreen fresh forage in the daily ration reduced methane emissions by approximately 24%, and preliminary data shows a similar reduction in beef cattle.

Be in Control

Fully automated reliable
feed supply.

HydroGreen Automated Vertical Pastures answer a pressing need: fresh forage on the farm every day. Innovative controlled environment production allows you to produce quality, nutritious, high-energy fresh forage 365 days a year.

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Harvested daily in minutes.

Imagine: a fully automated hydroponic grow system on your farm that sustainably and consistently produces highly nutritious and digestible livestock feed every day. One person can do the work of dozens.

We’re Making An Impact!

Dairy

Beef

Produce consistent, indoor, high quality livestock feed year-round.

The hydroponic sprouting of wheat and barley seed leverages properties of germination and early plant growth to capture optimal nutrition and digestibility.

Win. Win. Win.

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Research 08.02.23

More than a Feed: How Sprouted Grains can Lead to Cattle Business Profitability

Maura Keller reports for American Cattlemen showing how having access to high-quality feed ingredients is vital to the success of

Growing 06.06.22

Can this technology be an answer to farmland water use in the West?

Amy Joi O’Donoghue of Deseret News profiles HydroGreen customer Rod Magnuson and his ranch in Castle Dale, Utah. With drought

Research 17.05.22

HydroGreen fresh forage significantly lowers methane emissions in cows

HydroGreen fresh forage significantly lowers methane emissions in cows by up to 1 metric tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent, per

Nutrition 24.03.22

Transition Cows Get a Boost with Fresh Forage

Meeting the nutritional needs of a close-up cow is a constant challenge. During the last trimester, a remarkable 70% of

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@worldagexpo day two! We’re happy to be here t

@worldagexpo day two!

We’re happy to be here talking about the animal productivity, operational and environmental benefits of the sprouted-grain feed our equipment produces.

Thanks @hansen.industries.inc for including us in the booth and for being such great partners.

Check out the perfect crop our customer Magnuson L

Check out the perfect crop our customer Magnuson Livestock is growing!

The thick root mass is high in glucose and enzymes and low in starch at the time of harvest. Think of it as a high-energy ingredient, not a forage.

#ranching #cattle #sustainableagriculture

It’s the best time of the year in Denver! @natio

It’s the best time of the year in Denver! @nationalwestern

Go see our customer Rigby Cattle Co in Pen 636 in the Yards and at the Pen sale tomorrow. @rigbycattlecompany

A few highlights from the Yards and female sale last night - some very “cow-y” cows!
#stockshow #nationalwesternstockshow

What can HydroGreen sprouted grains do for your c

What can HydroGreen sprouted grains do for your cattle ranching business?

Think of the HydroGreen crop as a highly-digestible, high-energy nutrient package - one that can achieve the twin pillars of improved animal productivity and access to premium programs and price.

#cattle #ranching #beef #agriculture

We’ll be at booth #702 at the @angusassoc Americ

We’ll be at booth #702 at the @angusassoc American Angus Convention in Salt Lake this weekend talking about sprouted grain feed, and the potential implications for beef animals and businesses. Come see us!

#beef #betterwithbeef #goodmeat #ranching #cowssavetheplanet

Why HydroGreen? We’re prepared to make sprouted-

Why HydroGreen? We’re prepared to make sprouted-grain feed a fixture in both beef and dairy production systems.
#futureoffarming #agriculture

Meet our Technical Agronomist, Barry Overby! 👋

Meet our Technical Agronomist, Barry Overby! 👋 Here he is in action analyzing production at a customer site.

Barry grew up in the small town of Clark in northeast South Dakota and graduated from SDSU in 1996 with a BS degree in Landscape Design. He’s dedicated his career to seed research, seed sales and agronomy, and spends his days at HydroGreen testing grain varieties and advising customers. Barry joined the HydroGreen team because he “sees an opportunity to make an immense, positive impact on producers, rural communities and consumers.”

We want to learn about the specifics of your ranch

We want to learn about the specifics of your ranching operation and find solutions to make it as easy as possible to feed HydroGreen fresh forage.

Whether that’s adding it to the mixer wagon or dumping it straight onto pasture, or even silage or cubing experiments, let’s talk about it!

Click here [https://bit.ly/3BEEyKg] to get in touch with us.

Preliminary results from our beef finishing trial

Preliminary results from our beef finishing trial support earlier findings that a ration with HydroGreen forage can significantly lower methane emitted per animal (by as much as 50%).

Why? HydroGreen forage is a readily-fermentable ingredient. In short, it leads to efficient digestion and less enteric methane production (aka cow burps!)

Here’s the “why” behind the animal performan

Here’s the “why” behind the animal performance benefits of HydroGreen forage.

What could this high-energy, high-protein and highly-efficient forage do for your business? What ration could you create that helps you manage feed input costs, use what’s available to you and improve nutrition?

Comment below if you’d be interested in a live webinar with our Director of Research Dr. Shawn Jenkins. 💬

Whether you’re managing the old-fashioned way…

Whether you’re managing the old-fashioned way… or the old-fashioned way with a modern twist 👉🏻, cheers to all the ranchers out there!

We recently toured a group of California dairymen

We recently toured a group of California dairymen around the (almost complete) HydroGreen installation at Burnett Land and Livestock in Carpenter, WY. Soon the first two systems (12 machines) will churn out thousands of pounds of forage to be added to the ration of 6,000 dairy cows three times per day.

What makes the HydroGreen solution different? We are not new at this. Our engineering team has spent more than a decade optimizing our automated machines so that they reliably produce consistent, quality forage from sprouted grain at a commercial scale. See this blue and white bin here? That’s the amount of forage we can harvest from just one of our GLS machines.

We really can’t outline the facts better than @t

We really can’t outline the facts better than @taravanderdussen does in her latest newsletter: link in our stories!

▫️ 94% of the water used to produce beef is green water, aka rainwater that would fall from the sky whether or not you were raising cattle. Only 6% is blue water, aka groundwater or surface water.

▫️Beef requires 122 liters of blue water for 1/4 lb of beef. Almonds need 1097 liters of blue water for 1/4 lb of almonds.

▫️Animal protein accounts for 48% of all our protein and only 24% of our calories.

This is not to say that beef producers shouldn’t continue to focus on water use efficiency, and especially work to minimize water used to farm feed crops like hay and alfalfa. Each day HydroGreen we’re having rewarding conversations with ranchers who are interested in HydroGreen equipment – the solution helps them increase their production of quality, nutritious protein using less water per pound of beef. 🥩

We call that a win-win!

We like to say we're focused on B2B (business-to-b

We like to say we're focused on B2B (business-to-bovine that is). It represents how our team at HydroGreen is dedicated to cattle nutrition and the related business benefits to producers. Thanks to the Wyoming Livestock Roundup for writing this piece on the presentation we gave to the Livestock Health committee meeting at last month's Wyoming Stock Growers Association meeting.

Full article: link in our bio.

Including HydroGreen forage into the ration leads

Including HydroGreen forage into the ration leads to animal health and performance outcomes.

“We can point to the enzyme-rich forage that ferments very quickly in the rumen as the main source of the benefits we’ve identified,” says Dr. Shawn Jenkins, a Lead Research Scientist at HydroGreen.

Shout out to owner Mike and Jennifer Rigby @rigbycattlecompany and their robust calves pictured here (all born in March or April and enjoying a ration of alfalfa and HydroGreen forage on the pasture yesterday).

Check out Hank’s Grassfed Beef one of our custom

Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸 Today is the perfect d

Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸 Today is the perfect day to reflect on our part in the proud agricultural heritage that helped grow this country.

We hosted 400+ #2022nationalholsteinconvention pro

We hosted 400+ #2022nationalholsteinconvention producers, experts, and students at our HydroGreen Innovation Center in Sioux Falls! It was a fantastic showcase of HydroGreen's Automated Vertical Pastures commercial scale indoor ag-tech for fresh forage on the farm.

To wrap up our time at the Wyoming Stock Growers A

To wrap up our time at the Wyoming Stock Growers Association summer convention, we got to hear from Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon. He addressed the food security, economic and environmental benefits of a strong beef system in Wyoming and throughout the West. We agree – cattlemen and women are stewards of our land and producers of our food. Let’s ask more questions and make fewer assumptions.

CubicFarms announces a 10-machine HydroGreen Autom

CubicFarms announces a 10-machine HydroGreen Automated Vertical Pastures™ sale in West Texas valued at $3.8 million.

"We’ve endured extreme peaks and valleys of inconsistent feed during one of the driest periods on record and needed a simple to use, innovative fresh feed technology to survive these water shortages,” said Jim Cnossen. "After evaluating numerous on-farm indoor growing technologies, HydroGreen emerged as the leading solution to reliably produce the high-quality feed necessary for optimal herd health and performance.”

Read more: link in our bio.

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