We have one 27 acre field that the previous owner double cropped for 5 years. Sudex and Marshall rye grass. Sudex was put up as baleage and the RG was grazed for a while then also put up as baleage. Field was bare except for weeds and misc. clumps of fescue. Before he bought the place it had been a fescue hay field. We disked it multiple ways and dragged it trying to get it smooth enough that you could at least walk across it wouthout turning an ankle. Apparantly disking at 30 mph was his standard mode and the field had 6-12 inch high ridges every 10 feet or so. We planted it in winter wheat, the next year we hayed the WW and did the spray smother deal with winter wheat again. The next year after the WW was baled we sprayed with journey and drilled in WSG. None of the WSG came up but the weeds and fescue did great. The next early spring we sprayed again and drilled WSG. The WSG did really well, but still about 10% of the field came up in fescue.
Under synonyms in the dictionary, with persistant they should have KY31 fescue.
In a couple of other fieldfs, even with no-tilling brome and OG every year the fescue get's even more dominant.
If I was going to spend the money on a novel/friendly endophyte fescue I would only do it in a field that has never had fescue.
Under synonyms in the dictionary, with persistant they should have KY31 fescue.
In a couple of other fieldfs, even with no-tilling brome and OG every year the fescue get's even more dominant.
If I was going to spend the money on a novel/friendly endophyte fescue I would only do it in a field that has never had fescue.