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<blockquote data-quote="Little Joe" data-source="post: 1836838" data-attributes="member: 39122"><p>From my understanding the novel types just don't do as good as KY31. I hear either endophyte fescue takes back over or it's hard to maintain a good stand. I have what I assume is endophyte infected fescue because it was just what volunteered or came from hay I was feeding and I don't have problems with it but I do have a variety of other grasses mixed in such as bahia, bermuda, dallisgrass, crabgrass, clover, redtop and some other varieties of grasses so they don't just get a bite of fescue all the time. Dilution is the solution is the motto for endophyte infected fescue. I wouldn't fight what you already have, just learn to work with it. There are a lot of cattle in this part of the country that perform just fine on endophyte infected fescue. I'm betting you'll have a good seedbank in your soil of fescue and other grasses that will come up once the soil is right. Have you taken any soil samples to see what your PH is? I'm betting it's low. I prefer a good mix of warm season grasses and fescue and clovers, seems to work well in the Arkansas Ozarks. And cattle will graze that broomsedge well when it's tender. Getting your PH right will help with your broomsedge. I do have some areas that the ph is good and still have some broomsedge but not much. When I bought the farm that my house sits on, it was nothing but broomsedge and a lot of bare spots. At that time I couldn't spend much money on it so I'd just lime it when I had extra money and feed hay at different spots, finally got enough money to seed a little bermuda and fertilize and later chicken litter. Now my pasture is some of the better pasture around. I bought a new farm that borders me a few years ago, it was taken over by gum,cedar and briars. I mean it was so thick you'd get lost walking around in it. I cleaned it up and have limed it twice, sill a lot of broom sedge but starting to get fescue coming through from the seed bank. I also seeded bermuda in the ash where I burned all the brush and trees. There were probably 15 piles on the place that were huge so that's helped getting a little bermuda started. I don't know if you've tried disking any but I don't recommend it, you'll be picking up rocks for months. I disked quite a bit on my home place trying to get bermuda started, I swore after that I'd never disk again. But I have found that I can run my disk blades straight where they only make a cut in the ground that it doesn't disturb rocks too much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Little Joe, post: 1836838, member: 39122"] From my understanding the novel types just don't do as good as KY31. I hear either endophyte fescue takes back over or it's hard to maintain a good stand. I have what I assume is endophyte infected fescue because it was just what volunteered or came from hay I was feeding and I don't have problems with it but I do have a variety of other grasses mixed in such as bahia, bermuda, dallisgrass, crabgrass, clover, redtop and some other varieties of grasses so they don't just get a bite of fescue all the time. Dilution is the solution is the motto for endophyte infected fescue. I wouldn't fight what you already have, just learn to work with it. There are a lot of cattle in this part of the country that perform just fine on endophyte infected fescue. I'm betting you'll have a good seedbank in your soil of fescue and other grasses that will come up once the soil is right. Have you taken any soil samples to see what your PH is? I'm betting it's low. I prefer a good mix of warm season grasses and fescue and clovers, seems to work well in the Arkansas Ozarks. And cattle will graze that broomsedge well when it's tender. Getting your PH right will help with your broomsedge. I do have some areas that the ph is good and still have some broomsedge but not much. When I bought the farm that my house sits on, it was nothing but broomsedge and a lot of bare spots. At that time I couldn't spend much money on it so I'd just lime it when I had extra money and feed hay at different spots, finally got enough money to seed a little bermuda and fertilize and later chicken litter. Now my pasture is some of the better pasture around. I bought a new farm that borders me a few years ago, it was taken over by gum,cedar and briars. I mean it was so thick you'd get lost walking around in it. I cleaned it up and have limed it twice, sill a lot of broom sedge but starting to get fescue coming through from the seed bank. I also seeded bermuda in the ash where I burned all the brush and trees. There were probably 15 piles on the place that were huge so that's helped getting a little bermuda started. I don't know if you've tried disking any but I don't recommend it, you'll be picking up rocks for months. I disked quite a bit on my home place trying to get bermuda started, I swore after that I'd never disk again. But I have found that I can run my disk blades straight where they only make a cut in the ground that it doesn't disturb rocks too much. [/QUOTE]
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