Triple 7 Farm
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Is it OK to have about 20% fescue seed in my Hay Crop? What about pasture mix??
We've been looking into the best type of seed mix to replant our fields and pastures. Everything in my area has some amount of Fescue in it, mostly all 20% & above. Per our feed mill (my Husband also works for this company, so they've spent an awful lot of time looking at all the seeds and %, etc.) they told him the best is to just plant "plain old Horse Pasture Mix" in the fields (does contain a larger % of fescue & I know I'd have to keep the pregnant mares off in the later stages of pregnancy).
So, DOES IT MATTER IN THE HAY? Since It'll be dried out by the time they're eating it, the acid from the Fescue would no longer be there. They're telling me that there is no way to get away from the Fescues unless I plant all clover, alfalfa, timothy mix (which if I could, I'd plant all my hayfields that way, but once all the fertilizer, people to come in to replant, etc. I can't afford the cost of just those seeds in the crops as we have a large amount of hayfield land, not just 10-20 acres).
What would you recommend for Wisconsin that's going to be of a higher quality that won't contain so much Fescue if 20% Fescue isn't OK or Not OK at all in the hay??
Thanks yet again!!
We've been looking into the best type of seed mix to replant our fields and pastures. Everything in my area has some amount of Fescue in it, mostly all 20% & above. Per our feed mill (my Husband also works for this company, so they've spent an awful lot of time looking at all the seeds and %, etc.) they told him the best is to just plant "plain old Horse Pasture Mix" in the fields (does contain a larger % of fescue & I know I'd have to keep the pregnant mares off in the later stages of pregnancy).
So, DOES IT MATTER IN THE HAY? Since It'll be dried out by the time they're eating it, the acid from the Fescue would no longer be there. They're telling me that there is no way to get away from the Fescues unless I plant all clover, alfalfa, timothy mix (which if I could, I'd plant all my hayfields that way, but once all the fertilizer, people to come in to replant, etc. I can't afford the cost of just those seeds in the crops as we have a large amount of hayfield land, not just 10-20 acres).
What would you recommend for Wisconsin that's going to be of a higher quality that won't contain so much Fescue if 20% Fescue isn't OK or Not OK at all in the hay??
Thanks yet again!!