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

Research conducted by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station using a red clover extract in feed shows promise in offsetting some of the adverse effects of tall fescue toxicosis in livestock ...

Tall fescue pastures turn up the heat Cattle grazing on tall fescue grass when temperatures rise is a recipe for disaster. Toxic endophytes in fescue can turn up the cattle’s body heat.

"Now is the time to kill toxic tall fescue," says Craig Roberts, forage specialist. Pasture renovation to plant new novel-endophyte fescue is a long process. Mid-May is time to start spray-smother ...

Landowners desiring to manage their land for wildlife need to be aware that tall fescue is considered unusable space for wildlife, like deer, turkey, quail, and rabbits.

America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue, dominates the pastureland from Missouri and Arkansas in the west to the coast of the Carolinas in the east.

As a general rule, limit annual fertilizer nitrogen applications to 60 pounds per acre to mitigate fescue toxicity in Kentucky 31 tall fescue, Missouri’s most-grown variety.

Fescue toxicosis is a significant animal health issue resulting from the ingestion of ergot alkaloids produced by endophytic fungi residing in tall fescue. These naturally occurring mycotoxins ...

America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue, dominates the pastureland from Missouri and Arkansas in the west to the coast of the Carolinas in the east. Within that swath, a ...

A better option, according to Kenyon, is to select tall fescue cultivars with non-toxic endophyte types. These cultivars of tall fescue are also called novel or friendly tall fescue.

Brood mare owners have a number of management options available to manage the potential problems associated with toxic endophyte infected fescue. First of all, if you have a mare that is ...

Recent studies have integrated multi-omics approaches to uncover the complex network of interactions between host metabolism and microbial profiles in animals grazing toxic tall fescue.