Episode 136For the Love of Goats In this bonus episode with Dr. Woody Lane, a livestock nutritionist and forage specialist ...

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

In Indiana, pastures are generally, but not always, relegated to land that is too steep and rocky for row crops.

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 ...

<P>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 the late 1970s, it was discovered that much of the tall fescue grass in pastures contained the fungal endophyte that can have highly deleterious effects on the animals consuming it.

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 ...

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

Replacing toxic fescue with native grasses will make pastures more resilient to climate change, and improve soil health and water quality.

If your ryegrass grass pastures are healthy, based on the average number of plants in the population or your tall fescue pasture has sufficient ground cover, consider fertilizing them to reduce ...

Small pockets of Missouri pastures may have gone unscathed by drought. Those with grass should consider stockpiling tall fescue.