Twisted
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Has anyone had this done? I purchased a 50 acre pasture about a year ago and am wanting to revamp the grass. I have spent a year clearing trees, picking rocks, and installing fences and gates and now want to work on the grass, it has a decent mixture of grasses I guess but has a good deal of broom sedge growing in some areas and there are other areas that just need some love. I have already made a deal for chicken litter to be applied come spring.
I've done quite a bit of research through the years on forage grasses as I used to produce a lot of hay. Tall Fescue is the predominant native variety in the area and there is a great deal in this pasture. A couple of what I would call paddocks, have very thick stands that make me believe someone has reseeded or reworked those areas in the past. My research has taught me that the best grass to plant would be a novel variety fescue and there are a couple that were developed by the University here, I really don't have a problem with killing everything in the pasture and reseeding it but wondered if I needed to or if I would be more cost efficient to overseed the pasture I already have. I know I can have the grass tested to see if any of the grass is a novel variety or if it is the harmful endophyte native variety, but I have never done so and was wondering if anyone here had experience with doing this. If the fescue is the native endophyte variety which can be toxic and slow weight gain, I have no problem going at it with a scorched earth mentality and starting over, but if parts of it have already gone through this by a previous tenant, I don't want to waste those funds.
I've done quite a bit of research through the years on forage grasses as I used to produce a lot of hay. Tall Fescue is the predominant native variety in the area and there is a great deal in this pasture. A couple of what I would call paddocks, have very thick stands that make me believe someone has reseeded or reworked those areas in the past. My research has taught me that the best grass to plant would be a novel variety fescue and there are a couple that were developed by the University here, I really don't have a problem with killing everything in the pasture and reseeding it but wondered if I needed to or if I would be more cost efficient to overseed the pasture I already have. I know I can have the grass tested to see if any of the grass is a novel variety or if it is the harmful endophyte native variety, but I have never done so and was wondering if anyone here had experience with doing this. If the fescue is the native endophyte variety which can be toxic and slow weight gain, I have no problem going at it with a scorched earth mentality and starting over, but if parts of it have already gone through this by a previous tenant, I don't want to waste those funds.