Background

The most common species in southern Ohio you love it or you hate it	tall fescue stand (click to enlarge, 135kb)
ID
sharp leaf margins thick, coarse, upright leaves pronounced leaf veins no auricles, very small ligule	tall fescue seed head (click to enlarge, 154kb)

Use

·low-medium quality, suitable for breeding cows

· winter stock-pile

Agronomy

• moderate cold tolerance
• tolerant of low fertility
• very dominant, usually takes over from other species it is planted with
• old stands usually endophyte infected, new varieties usually not infected

Common varieties

old varieties: Kentucky 31 (K31) (coarse and endophyte-infected)

new varieties: Bronson, Jessup (for southern states), MaxQ

Establishment

seed: 2.6 g / 1000 seed, medium establishment rate

sowing rate 15-20 lb/ac for a pure sowing, 5-8 lb/ac in mixtures

can be spring (April) or fall (August) planted, 0.25-0.5" depth, ideally sown with a Brillioun seeder, but can be no-till planted (too slow for frost seeding)

 

 

 

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