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<blockquote data-quote="Banjo" data-source="post: 1313403" data-attributes="member: 17304"><p>Trying to stay ahead of the spring flush with fescue and other grasses heading out and growing to maturity, is a mistake IMO.</p><p>If you had a pure stand of fescue(very few do) you might lose a little nutritive value, but most folks have clover, plantain, chickory, johnsongrass, and lots of other undergrowth that cattle like. </p><p>If you get in the heat of the summer with half the farm in mature brown stemmed grasses, just leave it, let it be your summer stockpile....its also gonna stand there and protect your soil from severe heat.</p><p>If you keep grass short, it gets very, very difficult to graze very far into the winter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Banjo, post: 1313403, member: 17304"] Trying to stay ahead of the spring flush with fescue and other grasses heading out and growing to maturity, is a mistake IMO. If you had a pure stand of fescue(very few do) you might lose a little nutritive value, but most folks have clover, plantain, chickory, johnsongrass, and lots of other undergrowth that cattle like. If you get in the heat of the summer with half the farm in mature brown stemmed grasses, just leave it, let it be your summer stockpile....its also gonna stand there and protect your soil from severe heat. If you keep grass short, it gets very, very difficult to graze very far into the winter. [/QUOTE]
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