talltimber":9i8507wx said:
Banjo, I have a hard time wrapping my head around how a guy would rotational graze and never have to worry about fescue going to seed (making seed heads which are highest in the endophyte). I have been told by a local fella that he intensive grazes ("like the buffalo's did"), they only pick it once a year, according to him, and I just can't imagine how that could be that his cattle "are never on fescue with the heads on it" and he never bush hogs?? Would have an idea? When I asked him he muttered something about "you got to keep them moving"? :lol2:
Not sure I understand the question. Fescue only heads out one time a year, if it does after that its only minimal seedheads. After the spring flush you don't have to worry about it, unlike other grasses such as crabgrass, ryegrass, and one that I have here called caucasion bluestem, they are just constantly trying to head out over and over. I'm not sure if I could pick my whole farm just once per year, but I am more like 3 to 5 times. One of the keys to endophyte is adapted cattle and then keeping your own heifers and on and on.