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A winter's worth of notes from bedding down a 24-year-old mare on hemp — what the deep bed did for her stiffness, where it made more work, and the cases where an older horse is better off on something else entirely.
A bale of hemp bedding arrives looking like the simplest thing in the world. Behind it sits a harvest, a processor, a screening plant and a haulage decision. We trace the route — and set out what provenance, dust and absorbency claims actually mean for a British yard in 2026.
Switching a whole barn to hemp on a hunch is how yard owners end up with forty bales and a grumpy groom. This five-point, month-long trial gives you a fair way to test hemp bedding before you commit the yard.