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A growing concern for fescue toxicosis within the dairy industry

The impact of fescue toxicosis on dairy production is a growing concern for producers who utilize fescue in grazing pastures.

March 18, 2024

Carmen Burner

Tall fescue is a hearty deep-rooted perennial that grows widely across 15 states in the southeastern U.S. and covers more than 35 million acres.

Frost seeding clovers into tall fescue pastures provides multiple ecosystem services

Ball, crimson, red and white clovers can be successfully frost seeded into tall fescue pastures as a strategy to create a grass-legume mixture and to improve pasture and livestock responses.

December 12, 2023

Miguel Castillo

Tall fescue-clover pastures have a long history of improving livestock performance in the U.S. transition zone as well as mitigating the effects of fescue toxicosis.

UGA researchers seek targets to mitigate fescue toxicity in cattle

September 11, 2020

Maria M. Lameiras and Alec Lee

A $500,000 grant from the USDA will allow researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) to examine the minutiae of cattle and fescue microbiome interaction to find targets that will help mitigate the effects of fescue toxicosis, a forage-related condition that costs the U.S. beef industry more than $1 billion each year.

Begin stockpiling fescue mid-August

August 19, 2020

Linda Geist

Start stockpiling fescue mid-August for healthier and more profitable cattle, says University of Missouri Extension Forage Specialist Craig Roberts.

Fighting the fescue toxicity battle

March 26, 2020

Sam Strahan

Much has been written about Kentucky 31 (KY-31) tall fescue over the last few decades. Most cattle producers living in the approximately 35 million-acre fescue belt (which encompasses Missouri and Arkansas, the mid-Atlantic states and most of the Southeast) understand the negative effects KY-31 tall fescue grass can have on production.

Southeast: Tall fescue: A necessary evil

March 24, 2020

Matthew Burns

Wild-type infected tall fescue is widely used for soil conservation, reclamation, turf and pasture establishment. From the Mid-Atlantic region to the Southeast, approximately 40 million acres are planted in tall fescue.

Fescue toxicosis and its effect on reproductive success

February 25, 2020

Daniel H. Poole

Kentucky 31 (KY 31) tall fescue is a cool-season perennial forage heavily utilized by cow-calf producers in the Southeast to Midwest.

5 tips for fescue management

May 24, 2019

Wesley Moore

Most of us are very familiar with the agronomic advantages of endophyte-infected tall fescue. In short, endophyte-infected tall fescue thrives through a variety of environmental challenges most grasses wouldn’t tolerate, including drought stress, overgrazing and insect pressure.

Is your forage production where it’s expected to be?

May 30, 2018

Hugh Aljoe

As the growing season advances, producers should know about what proportion of the annual forage production occurs by month. Typically, about 25 to 30 percent of the annual forage production should have occurred by June 1 for most regions of the U.S. other than the Southwest region.

Finding natural growth promoter compounds

October 6, 2016

Glen Aiken and Michael Flythe

The focus for graziers has always been on forage quality in meeting the nutrient requirements of pastured cattle. The content of crude protein, neutral- and acid-detergent fiber (structural carbohydrates), water-soluble carbohydrates, crude fiber and minerals in a specific forage has been used for estimating forage quality and for formulating supplemental concentrate rations.

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A growing concern for fescue toxicosis within the dairy industry

Frost seeding clovers into tall fescue pastures provides multiple ecosystem services

UGA researchers seek targets to mitigate fescue toxicity in cattle

Begin stockpiling fescue mid-August

Fighting the fescue toxicity battle

Southeast: Tall fescue: A necessary evil

Fescue toxicosis and its effect on reproductive success

5 tips for fescue management

Is your forage production where it’s expected to be?

Finding natural growth promoter compounds

West: The value of records

South Central: Heifer development from weaning to breeding

Southeast: BCS – one of the best tools you have

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