A University
of Missouri extension livestock specialist says farmers should stockpile tall
fescue for winter cattle feeding.
Patrick
Davis said stockpiling fescue leads to higher profits.
“As we talk
with our economists, there’s much less input cost in putting a stockpile up verses
deeding hay all winter,” he said.
Davis tells
Brownfield farmers can start stockpiling by cutting fescue pastures to below
four inches and adding 40 to 50 pounds of nitrogen in August.
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