A pasture improvement research program features looking at summer-dormant tall fescue grasses as an alternative to winter wheat pastures. The climate is changing and the fescue is reliable in the ...

Tall fescue adds to summer heat losses come in the form of less gain, weaker fertility and other health issues.

Stockpile-Tall fescue grass pastures offer the ability to stockpile or grow forage and store it in the field to be grazed in late fall or winter. Tall fescue is uniquely suited to this practice as it ...

Managers on Kentucky horse farms prefer pastures used for grazing pregnant mares to be composed of Kentucky bluegrass and orchardgrass and little, if any, tall fescue. Most of the tall fescue in ...

An old stand of infected fescue pasture should be sprayed to kill the toxic grass. About 10 days later a "smother crop" will be planted to continue the grass-killing recipe.

Fescue toxicosis (toxicosis is any disease condition due to poisoning) is caused when tall fescue (<i>Festuca arundinacaea</i>) becomes infected with the mold <i>Acremonium coenophialum</i>.

University of Missouri livestock and forage specialists are reporting ergot infestations that can cause major losses in ...

Research by the center found that pastures of native switchgrass financially outperform fescue pastures. And Patrick D. Keyser, the center’s director, says native grasses significantly outperform ...

While I still think we need some of our pastures in Kentucky 31, novel endophyte tall fescue is a great tool to add. To discuss options for your farm, please call Morgan Watts at 704-216-8970, or ...

Small pockets of Missouri pastures may have gone unscathed by 2023 drought. Those lucky enough to have grass should consider stockpiling tall fescue, says University of Missouri Extension state ...

It has been a dry fall and early winter for all of Pottawatomie County this year. Forages such as tall fescue and annual ryegrass have not fared well, and the coming spring may end up being one of ...

Question: We purchased 10 acres and plan for part of it to be pasture, while the rest we want as a hay field. Can we use the same grasses for both purposes?