Livestock producers who graze fescue pastures should always have fescue toxicosis in mind. Tall fescue is a cool-season, high-quality perennial grass that thrives in moderate temperatures with ...

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 ...

Central Kentucky horse farm managers with broodmares should carefully consider how recent weather conditions might affect tall fescue in pastures, potentially contributing to tall fescue toxicosis in ...

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 ...

Of course Flack’s approach is anti-feedlot, but she doesn’t believe it’s enough to simply turn animals out on the same patch of grass season after season. “Rotational Grazing,” in which livestock is ...

Cattle rid their bodies of heat in three ways: radiation, convection and evaporation. “If your cattle can’t use all three methods, they’ll overheat fast,” says University of Missouri Extension state ...

Novel endophyte tall fescue is good alternative forage whether you have horses, cattle or small ruminants. Below are some things to consider if you are thinking about converting part of your farm into ...