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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm2" data-source="post: 339730" data-attributes="member: 2095"><p>Mike, we had Kentucky 31 fescue here for years. Cows did pretty good on it. When AUtriumph came out we planted every acre we had in it (DEBACLE OF THE HIGHEST ORDER) great gains, great stand year 1....great gains, mediocre stand year 2, year 3 just mediocre. I can't talk for other states or the Blackbelt South; but in North Alabama give me KY fescue AND Sericea Lespedeza all day long and then some. The fescue greens up March 1 and the sericea takes comes out young and tender just when the fescue toxicity starts to get bad. When the sericea gets woody and stemmy in August you start to get a bunch of fescue growth and if you are not overgrazing you got forage into December and the stuff stockpiles great. I got a ~100 acres we are cleaning up now. Our working plan is plant it in Sericea in a coming Spring (2007 is not looking good) and come back and drill in Kentucky 31 fescue and Crimson or Ladino Clover (I know the clover is an exercise in futility; but it is nice for the first two years) that fall. I talked with one of the Auburn Beef Specialists at length and given the terrain, soil type, part of Alabama, seasonal flooding, etc he thought that was the best plan he could come up with. The biggest problem with fescue is finding cattle that WILL perform on it. I prefer a bull who was reared knee deep in the stuff. That may just be old school paranoia; but some cattle do well on fescue and some fall apart.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm2, post: 339730, member: 2095"] Mike, we had Kentucky 31 fescue here for years. Cows did pretty good on it. When AUtriumph came out we planted every acre we had in it (DEBACLE OF THE HIGHEST ORDER) great gains, great stand year 1....great gains, mediocre stand year 2, year 3 just mediocre. I can't talk for other states or the Blackbelt South; but in North Alabama give me KY fescue AND Sericea Lespedeza all day long and then some. The fescue greens up March 1 and the sericea takes comes out young and tender just when the fescue toxicity starts to get bad. When the sericea gets woody and stemmy in August you start to get a bunch of fescue growth and if you are not overgrazing you got forage into December and the stuff stockpiles great. I got a ~100 acres we are cleaning up now. Our working plan is plant it in Sericea in a coming Spring (2007 is not looking good) and come back and drill in Kentucky 31 fescue and Crimson or Ladino Clover (I know the clover is an exercise in futility; but it is nice for the first two years) that fall. I talked with one of the Auburn Beef Specialists at length and given the terrain, soil type, part of Alabama, seasonal flooding, etc he thought that was the best plan he could come up with. The biggest problem with fescue is finding cattle that WILL perform on it. I prefer a bull who was reared knee deep in the stuff. That may just be old school paranoia; but some cattle do well on fescue and some fall apart. [/QUOTE]
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