What “awards” tall fescue its desired traits also produces compounds that are toxic to the livestock consuming it, called fescue toxicosis.

If your cattle operation is smack dab in the fescue belt, tall fescue management is an issue you’re probably always trying to manage and there’s good reason to. The USDA Agricultural Research Service estimates that almost one in five (17.2 percent) of all cows and heifers in the United States in 2009 were exposed to […]