Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners! What a stretch of rain rolling in the second week of August. I hope many of you took advantage of several days of dry, sunny weather before all the ...

Cattle rid their bodies of heat in three ways: radiation, convection and evaporation. “If your cattle can’t use all three methods, they’ll overheat fast,” says University of Missouri Extension state ...

MADISON, WI, SEPTEMBER 21, 2009 – A new book, Tall Fescue for the Twenty-first Century , documents the history, science, and applications of tall fescue, a cultivated pasture grass that is playing an ...

University of Missouri Extension is hosting a Feb. 26 small ruminant webinar that will address tall fescue toxicosis in sheep and goats. Tall fescue is a widely grown cool-season grass that serves as ...

Central Kentucky horse farm managers with broodmares should carefully consider how recent weather conditions might affect tall fescue in pastures, potentially contributing to tall fescue toxicosis in ...

Tall fescue is a deep-rooted bunch grass, drought tolerant and hardy. A limiting factor has been its requirement for at least 35 to 37 inches of annual precipitation to survive. This requirement has ...

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A new Weed Technology research article shows electrical weed control equipment provides a viable alternative to broadcast herbicides in Missouri pastures WESTMINSTER, Colo., Dec. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ ...

Fescue toxicosis is a significant animal health issue resulting from the ingestion of ergot alkaloids produced by endophytic fungi residing in tall fescue. These naturally occurring mycotoxins disrupt ...

Trevor D. Israel, Gary E. Bates, Thomas C. Mueller, John C. Waller and G. Neil Rhodes, Jr. Most tall fescue in the United States is infected with a fungal endophyte which imparts certain advantages to ...

Warm spring weather and plentiful rainfall have given new life to ailing fescue lawns. However large splotches of light-colored grass in newly seeded areas of the lawn. These areas are infested with a ...

As ongoing drought sucks water from the Colorado River Basin and states are being warned to find ways to conserve or face federal mandates, a Basalt-based nonprofit organization is trying to plant a ...