I've been doing some research on johnsongrass - seems like you don't know it's a problem till you have a dead cow. Fella up the street has some johnson grass hay for sale. From what I read if it was put up right, your fine. If not, nitrate and cyanide poisoning are still possible. Then I have to decide if I want to seed my fields with his johnsongrass. Shocking about Johnsongrass is they are dead in minutes. No time to react.
So I've been researching what to frost seed this coming spring into a worn out pasture. I looked at rye - anyone ever heard of rye toxicity that results when rye get's infected with a certain fungus? Seems like that's a death sentence too.
I don't mind managing pasture to maintain nutritive soundness, but the lethality of "normal" pasture grasses is beginning to be a bit unnerving.
What can a fella plant that won't become potentially toxic at some point?
So I've been researching what to frost seed this coming spring into a worn out pasture. I looked at rye - anyone ever heard of rye toxicity that results when rye get's infected with a certain fungus? Seems like that's a death sentence too.
I don't mind managing pasture to maintain nutritive soundness, but the lethality of "normal" pasture grasses is beginning to be a bit unnerving.
What can a fella plant that won't become potentially toxic at some point?