Growing exceptional forage requires the right products, applied at the right time, in the right amount, and in the right place. The ST Biologicals BioPeak Foliar Blend, combined with careful crop management and mentorship, helped a Wisconsin grower earn Grand Champion First-Time Entrant at the 2026 World Forage Analysis Superbowl with a clover grass forage crop.
What does it take to grow truly exceptional forage?
For one of our growers, the answer is a combination of careful management, attention to the fundamentals, and superior inputs. His approach and our BioPeak Foliar Blend earned him first place at the World Forage Analysis Superbowl at the 2026 World Dairy Expo as a first-time entrant.
Let’s take a look at what it took to become a champion and how regenerative ag practices can help you work with Mother Nature to grow superior forage for your livestock or dairy customers.
It Starts with the 4 Rs
Our mentor Dave Meidl is a big advocate of the 4 Rs for successful crop production.
The Right Product . . .
At the Right Time . . .
In the Right Amount . . .
In the Right Place.
These principles are particularly important when you’re growing high-quality forage to feed dairy cattle, as superior forage turns into superior milk and superior profit. It’s not enough to simply add more nutrients into your soil. Your forage crop needs the right nutrients, biological support, and growing conditions at the right point in its development to become a champion crop.
The Right Products in the Right Amounts
At ST Biologicals, we work with dairy forage growers to come up with a winning strategy that follows the 4 Rs principles. BioPeak Foliar Blend is a combination of high-performing regenerative ag products that work together to support optimal growth from seeding to harvest. Let’s take a closer look at what’s inside.
OGN Liquid Potassium Sulfate
Organic Growth Nutrient is a liquid potassium sulfate foliar spray that helps forage crops regulate water use, activate enzymes, and optimize overall growth.
BIOACTIVE LiquiLife+
Soil biology plays an important role in nutrient cycling and plant health. BIOACTIVE LiquiLife+ is a broad-spectrum liquid biological concentrate that contains beneficial microorganisms to improve soil biology at the plant root zone. These microorganisms support plant vigor and nutrient uptake.
BIOACTIVE Liquid Supercharger
BIOACTIVE Liquid Supercharger gives your plants a headstart at the beginning of the season and a needed boost while enduring environmental stressors such as drought and heat. Results are quick via foliar application for results you notice.
Q-Bio Boron 2.5%
Boron is micronutrient that your forage crops need in small quantities but is essential for supporting optimal plant growth and yield. Q-Bio Boron 2.5% eliminates boron deficiency by delivering the micronutrient directly to plants.
OmniPro
OmniPro enhances plant uptake of nutrients and helps all of the inputs in BioPeak work together to improve plant health.
Calcine or Protos 32
Finally, BioPeak addresses the soil environment itself with Calcine or its sister product for organic growers, Protos 32. These products improve soil aggregation and reduce soil compaction, allowing nutrients to move more easily through the soil and to the plant root zone where plants can use them.
Put the Right Products in the Right Place at the Right Time
BioPeak Foliar Blend gives your soil and forage crops the right products in the right amounts. The ST Biologicals mentors work with you to ensure you apply it at the right time in the right place. On the ground, this looks like soil tests, forage analyses, crop conditions, nutrient requirements, and observing the stage of growth of your crops before making recommendations for input applications.
Our goals isn’t simply to apply a foliar blend and leave it at that. We want to work with you to build a fertility and biological program that makes sense for your crop, in your field.
BioPeak at the World Forage Analysis Superbowl
When a Wisconsin grower entered the World Forage Analysis Superbowl for the first time, he knew he had a quality crop. But his forage didn’t just make the cut at the 2026 Dairy Expo. It won.
His experience is an example of what can happen when you pair careful forage management with a comprehensive fertility and biological program like BioPeak Foliar Blend and mentorship from the ST Biologicals team. He had superior crop genetics, soil conditions, fertility, weather, harvest timing, and storage on his side. But he had superior crop nutrition working for him, too.
Here are the results of the grower’s hard work:
| Variety | Clover Grass |
| Dry Matter | 76.58% |
| Crude Protein | 20.39% |
| Neutral Detergent Fiber | 34.25% |
| Ash | 9.58% |
| 30-Hr NDFD % of NDF (in vitro) | 76.44 |
| Relative Forage Quality (RFQ) | 259 |
| Milk 2013 NEL | 75.60 |
| Milk 2013 Milk per Ton | 3799 |
| Final Score | 94.88 |
| Visual Score | 91.00 |
| Placing | Grand Champion First-Time Entrant |
Can your forage be Superbowl-worthy? Absolutely. With the right product in the right amount at the right time in the right place, your forage can provide optimal nutrition, high yields, and superior profit. Get in touch with our mentors today for help growing a winning forage crop next growing season. We’re here to help you succeed. When soil speaks, we listen.
Dairy Forage FAQs
What is the 4 Rs approach to growing high-quality forage?
The 4 Rs are the Right Product, Right Time, Right Amount, and Right Place. This approach helps growers match fertility and biological inputs to their crop’s needs, growing conditions, and stage of development.
What is included in the BioPeak Foliar Blend?
BioPeak Foliar Blend combines OGN Liquid Potassium Sulfate, BIOACTIVE LiquiLife+, BIOACTIVE Liquid Supercharger, Q-Bio Boron 2.5%, OmniPro, and either Calcine or Protos 32. Together, these inputs support plant nutrition, soil biology, nutrient uptake, soil aggregation, and overall forage growth.
How did BioPeak contribute to a Wisconsin grower’s award-winning forage?
BioPeak was part of the grower’s comprehensive fertility and biological program, alongside crop genetics, soil conditions, weather, harvest timing, storage, and careful management. His clover grass forage earned a final score of 94.88 and was named Grand Champion First-Time Entrant at the 2026 World Forage Analysis Superbowl.
How can forage analysis help improve forage quality?
Forage analysis provides information about important measures of forage quality, including dry matter, crude protein, neutral detergent fiber, NDF digestibility, relative forage quality, and milk per ton. These results can help growers and their agronomic mentors evaluate crop performance and make more informed fertility and crop nutrition decisions.
