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<blockquote data-quote="Banjo" data-source="post: 1305588" data-attributes="member: 17304"><p>You don't. One of our grazing rotations is for them to eat the mature seedheads. To be even more confusing this is during breeding season. So a lot of endophytes consumed during breeding season! We leave the stems afterwards, speaking of buffalo and old ways, because the dead stems create a microclimate near the surface. It allows less wind to hit growing forage to dry it and the soil out, it increases dew, it allows limited protection from sun and I have mowed strips just to see. <u><em><strong>Mowed strips will wither and quit growing long before the standing stem areas. Don't believe it, try it. </strong></em></u>And endophyte levels: we tested at 90%+ in all locations. Endophyte free fescue will act more like ryegrass: here and gone. Friendly endophyte needs more careful management if it works for you but will not equal old KY31 on yield.</p><p></p><p>I would tend to agree with that statement. I left a pasture last year untouched by the bushhog after grazing it and it was noticeably better than what was mowed. Although I still have this urge to mow/clip my pastures sometimes...bushhogging tends to leave the refuse in a windrow and will choke out the grass in those spots</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Banjo, post: 1305588, member: 17304"] You don't. One of our grazing rotations is for them to eat the mature seedheads. To be even more confusing this is during breeding season. So a lot of endophytes consumed during breeding season! We leave the stems afterwards, speaking of buffalo and old ways, because the dead stems create a microclimate near the surface. It allows less wind to hit growing forage to dry it and the soil out, it increases dew, it allows limited protection from sun and I have mowed strips just to see. [u][i][b]Mowed strips will wither and quit growing long before the standing stem areas. Don't believe it, try it. [/b][/i][/u]And endophyte levels: we tested at 90%+ in all locations. Endophyte free fescue will act more like ryegrass: here and gone. Friendly endophyte needs more careful management if it works for you but will not equal old KY31 on yield. I would tend to agree with that statement. I left a pasture last year untouched by the bushhog after grazing it and it was noticeably better than what was mowed. Although I still have this urge to mow/clip my pastures sometimes...bushhogging tends to leave the refuse in a windrow and will choke out the grass in those spots [/QUOTE]
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