Jeanne - Simme Valley
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Yup - looking good.
That's my experience too. We had a lot of fescue pasture in Arkansas and made a lot of hay and never heard anything about it being an issue. Maybe a different kind of fescue?In all of my life, I have never heard anything about cattle and fescue til 3 or 4 years ago on here. Blew my mind. People around here spend millions of dollars a year growing fescue for pasture and hay. I have always known to keep pregnant mares off Fescue, but never cows,
Well, they say KY31, which is what everyone down here uses. Only other I know of is the creeping red people sow under shade trees in their yard. Supposedly it is the same endophyte that is toxic to mares, that is toxic to cattle and I know most of our fescue is infested with it, because a lot of people who don't know better loses foals on fescue.That's my experience too. We had a lot of fescue pasture in Arkansas and made a lot of hay and never heard anything about it being an issue. Maybe a different kind of fescue?