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Toxic fescue knowledge? Non toxic fescue knowledge?
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<blockquote data-quote="Fire Sweep Ranch" data-source="post: 1162828" data-attributes="member: 18809"><p>I am trying something crazy this year... We are taking 13 acres (split in an 8 acre pasture and two 5 acre pastures) and planting BarOptima along with some red clover. Our existing stand is K31 mostly, and we have lost some due to the drought a few years ago, so there are several bare spots. I do not want to kill the existing stand, but thicken it for better production. So I have talked with many different people, extension agents, seed suppliers, and other cattlemen to come up with my idea. I plan on drilling the Bar Optima at 12 pounds an acre, along with the clover (I think 5 pounds an acre) into the existing field. The BarOptima E34 is an endophyte friendly fescue. I have not had specific problems with fescue, but do have cows that do not shed off, and pant more than others. I suspect they are fescue cows, but not sure. I have no way of knowing which plant is which in the field once it grows, but hope to see a difference in our gains and overall look of the cattle. We manage intensive graze, so rotate in and out of those fields maybe twice during the growing season, along with taking a cutting for hay if the weather cooperates. I. Hope it works, and will try to remember to update you all. Now I just need a good rain around the first of September!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fire Sweep Ranch, post: 1162828, member: 18809"] I am trying something crazy this year... We are taking 13 acres (split in an 8 acre pasture and two 5 acre pastures) and planting BarOptima along with some red clover. Our existing stand is K31 mostly, and we have lost some due to the drought a few years ago, so there are several bare spots. I do not want to kill the existing stand, but thicken it for better production. So I have talked with many different people, extension agents, seed suppliers, and other cattlemen to come up with my idea. I plan on drilling the Bar Optima at 12 pounds an acre, along with the clover (I think 5 pounds an acre) into the existing field. The BarOptima E34 is an endophyte friendly fescue. I have not had specific problems with fescue, but do have cows that do not shed off, and pant more than others. I suspect they are fescue cows, but not sure. I have no way of knowing which plant is which in the field once it grows, but hope to see a difference in our gains and overall look of the cattle. We manage intensive graze, so rotate in and out of those fields maybe twice during the growing season, along with taking a cutting for hay if the weather cooperates. I. Hope it works, and will try to remember to update you all. Now I just need a good rain around the first of September! [/QUOTE]
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