Hay Guard

Ready to use, premium hay preservative.

The right hay preservative is essential for any hay producer wanting quality, nutrient rich hay. 

Hay Guard® is a patented dual-action preservative that protects and retains hay quality while reducing the time it takes to make hay.  

Unlike acid products, Hay Guard® has no odour and is non-corrosive when used correctly. Hay Guard is research-backed and ready-to-use.

Product Manual

  • No matter whether you’re a hay grower, contractor, or dairy farmer the quality of your hay matters. High-quality feed is the key to healthy livestock and a strong profit margin, but producing optimal forage takes a complex system of variables that are not easily controlled.

    Traditionally, forage quality varies from crop to crop, year to year. But Hay Guard allows you to take back some of this control by significantly reducing the amount of time needed to make quality hay.

    What prevents top quality hay:

    1. Rain during the drying process

    2. Lengthy curing time

    3. Plant respiration

    4. Microbial activity

    Incorporating a research-backed preservative such as Hay Guard® allows you to better control all of these variables. Leading to better quality, animal nutrition, less chance of hay heating, and more bailing hours in a day.

    Keep your machinery moving and your animals nourished with Hay Guard®

  • • Ready to use formula

    • Baling up to 22% moisture

    • HAY GUARD® is a preservative not an inoculant

    • The sulphur compounds form mild s-gases that are non-conducive to mould growth

    • Non-toxic

    • No withholding period

    • Safe, based on additives used in human food

    preservation

    • Get hay baled before the rain event

    • More baling hours in a day

    • Start hay making earlier in the season

    • Better quality hay and more regrowth

    • Reduce heating, yeast and mould

    • Increase dry matter recovery

    • Retain more high-quality nutrients.

    • Easier feeding out.

    • Fresher, more palatable silage at feed out.

Who Uses Hay Guard?

Hay Growers

Hay Guard allows growers to make better quality hay. The longer hay sits in the paddock after being cut, the more chance of microbial build-up and getting caught by a rain event.

Higher quality hay helps you stand out in the market.

Hay Contractors

Hay Guard allows contractors to keep their machinery moving by reducing the amount of time hay needs to sit and cure before baling.

This means a higher yield and more baling hours in a day.

Dairy Farmers

Hay Guard reduces the build-up of moulds and yeasts that occur when hay sits too long after cutting.

At even moderate levels this microbial build-up can reduce milk production and in serious cases harms livestock.

 FAQs

  • Contact Mark Lourey through our Contact page on the website.

  • We recommend between 16-18% ideally.

  • A build-up of microbes in the hay. It is a common misconception that moisture causes hay fires. Hay Guard prevents such build-up in higher moisture hay.

  • No. Hay Guard is odourless.

  • Hay Guard is designed with the same preservatives used in human food preservation, so is non-toxic.

  • A process for making hay that allows you to speed up the time between cutting and baling. For a detailed overview of the method, contact Mark Lourey via our Contact page.