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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Tall fescue Full renovation of these pastures takes time and money, so if it’s an old KY31 fescue stand, converting it to novel endophyte is a good, albeit expensive, option.

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>.

Feed Hay Now to Allow Pastures to Recover By Drovers Guest Editor September 24, 2012 Feed hay in the fall and save the new green grass for winter is a plan that can result in more feed for drought ...

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 ...

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 ...

When pastures are over used, consider over-seeding, expert says. March 13, 2019 at 1:53 p.m.