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Jim Gerrish's fescue-plus grazing and stockpile mix
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<blockquote data-quote="Mossy Dell" data-source="post: 1543563" data-attributes="member: 24261"><p>Thanks, Kenny. I may give you a holler after this semester and come see what you are doing.</p><p></p><p>I agree, work with what is "native." I did that where I was grass farming in SE Ohio except in one case. I bought an abused 20-acre cornfield across the road and converted it to hay and future pasture. I used several top orchardgrasses, from Barenbrug as I recall, as well as Timothy and AU Dewey trefoil. Over several years of cutting it for hay by a custom harvestor, who cut too low for my taste, the fescue moved it and took over.</p><p></p><p>There had not been grass grown in that field in decades, just corn and beans. But it bordered a fescue field, and all its borders were fescue. If I had it to do over again, I would use a novel endophyte fescue like Martin 2 and maybe some Persist orchardgrass, which didn't exist then. Maybe a NZ var Tekapo orchardgrass would have lasted longer, who knows? But the base grass was going to end up fescue probably no matter what!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mossy Dell, post: 1543563, member: 24261"] Thanks, Kenny. I may give you a holler after this semester and come see what you are doing. I agree, work with what is "native." I did that where I was grass farming in SE Ohio except in one case. I bought an abused 20-acre cornfield across the road and converted it to hay and future pasture. I used several top orchardgrasses, from Barenbrug as I recall, as well as Timothy and AU Dewey trefoil. Over several years of cutting it for hay by a custom harvestor, who cut too low for my taste, the fescue moved it and took over. There had not been grass grown in that field in decades, just corn and beans. But it bordered a fescue field, and all its borders were fescue. If I had it to do over again, I would use a novel endophyte fescue like Martin 2 and maybe some Persist orchardgrass, which didn't exist then. Maybe a NZ var Tekapo orchardgrass would have lasted longer, who knows? But the base grass was going to end up fescue probably no matter what! [/QUOTE]
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