Is Kentucky 31 Fescue the best winter grass ever? 

Man....just got our free choice mineral feeders! Can't wait to put them out for the cows asap!!!

You speak the truth, sir. Soapbox and all.

I bought 14 acres last year. Half wooded half old hay field. I mowed the 7 acre field last year and got lime spread. This year I will probably mow it again but eventually the plan is to fence the field and have a few ruminants. I also am working on turning some of the woods into silvopasture. I want to start my herd here and move on to bigger land one day

This is why I love the Arizona project so much. If it can be done in the desert effectively and even convert that environment, you don't run out of "good" land. Such an amazing concept.

The pasture looks fantastic ,still tons of forage for your beautiful Bull herd! Lovely 😍

I have my cows and sheep out on Tall Fescue dominated pastures, they have not been replanted for 50+ years, and the previous management (until the past 3 years) was continuous grazing. Not sure if in these parts it is KY 31 but it is a tough grass, as you said Greg, nothing can compete with it for winter stockpile. Just fed the first hay of the season..., $275 ton, can't make it on that price. Next season I hope to eliminate the need for feed, but I will have some on hand for insurance. Glad to hear you and your crew are on the mend.

Screw developers

Good going. Glad it isn't the new big C, and that you, Jan and Isaac are getting better.

Here in San Antonio, nearly all the treelands are being turned into apartments. No more scenic rides...just an over abundance of apartments, and no place for recreation, or for the wild life.

I do not live on a farm. I have an acreage within a suburban area of Missouri. I planted Kentucky Fescue 31. It stays green even when dry. I noticed though that I didn't have too many baby animals. In the late 1970s and early ‘80s, it was discovered that KY-31 tall fescue is infected with a fungal endophyte now known as Epichloe coenophiala. There are a few animal problems associated with grazing infected KY-31 tall fescue, however. In ruminants, the impacts include poor reproduction, reduced milk yield, reduced growth, and elevated body temperatures. In horses, the impacts are limited to pregnant females, causing longer gestation length, thickened placentas, foaling difficulties, weak foals, and agalactia. The various animal symptoms from grazing endophyte-infected tall fescue are known collectively as fescue toxicosis.

Gregg your right about developers. It is all about the $$ and they don't care about the soil or animals. They want it as cheap as possible and turn a big profit. I hope that you feel better, speedy recovery for Jan also.

Those 20 acre parcels can be productive with some sheep if you can educate them. Get them to do a permaculture

Nice cattle and pasture. I do hear of efforts to convert Kentucky 31 fields to other things. And I follow those. But you got green grass all winter long! So it must still have its place. I look forward to to summer videos when native Big Bluestem makes its appearance and is welcomed.

Hate to see any farm get broken down for house development

Hello sir. You sure make a whole lotta sense to me. We are trying to get on board with the regenerative farming practices. I’ve been watching some of your videos past couple months. We sit on about 350 acres, maybe 150 of pasture. Have to get perimeter fencing in place so we can start moving the cows as you describe. Currently, we have 11 heffers and one polled bull living in about a 10 acre piece we managed to get fenced w 5 strands of barbed wire. Haven’t been moving them in there, just gave them the whole thing for now. Cows have been here for almost a year now in that same pinned area. I’m trying to get larger area perimeter fenced , so I can then start following your methods of moving the herd as much as I can between working other paying job. Thank you sir for what you do, and hope you guys have successful year ahead

i have never seen grass like that coming from Ireland I'm used to seeing green Grass

The cold is going around everywhere it seems right now. I’m also recovering

Thanks for the video! I wish I had that grass for my animals. The grass seed that I planted last fall is still growing. I went and checked it the other day where I fed some of my animals the past summer and the ground is soft and moist. It felt like I was walking on air. I’m just still waiting for my Christmas present from you 😂. The big corner post pounder 😂. I send a text to my neighbor who’s a welder to see if he would make me one. I might just have to walk over to him and ask. Im sure he is been busy with this warm weather. He also pours cement so any warm weather he does that.

Several years ago some know-it-all chimed in on how I loved fescue ... well I do not love but learned to love. I would enjoy trying out Johnson grass ... but with the local laws cannot. I replied, "I grow on fescue, never finish on fescue". Well, what do you use ... "any respecting cattleman knows you finish on clover."

KY 31. The cattle obviously love it and are thriving on it. Why do some people hate it?

I think it’s the worse thing going on is overdevelopment of good land. Around here they don’t do 20 acres lots per house. It’s more like 500 hours on 10 acres. Will double a small town’s population with one development. So sad.

Happy New Year, Greg. It looks like you’ve left enough land between your fence and the woods to possibly mow that space. Is it your intension to leave a strip of grass there to more easily maintain the area between your woods and fence? Thank you.

Tough to see suburban creep, no matter where you are. We are seeing the Metro move south on us here in MN, year over year. All you can do is take the land you control (own/rent) and make it as productive and healthy as possible. - Peter

There is a growing body of research that says Kentucky 32 and other endophyte free fescue varieties are much better than K31. I thought it was just marketing hype but based on the literature, the lack of fescue foot, improved palatability, and fertility improvements seem worth investigating. That being said, renovating an entire farm with new a K32 stand might be impossible to justify for some, and in those cases diluting with other grasses and forbs is a better option to reduce issues.

Do you have any opinion of the Fescue hybrids that have been developed for Southern states (Texas) and how they compare to KY31?

Developers love good farmland because it perks. It's cheaper for water and septic. BTW there is a saying here in Florida for folks with acreage that mow and fertilize for the golf course look coined by an urban gardener i follow. Grassholes. Here the problem is all their fertilizer is killing the waterways and causing red tide. Sad. Also, for all the viewers, Reits and developers are often funded by all OUR 401ks and mutual funds. It's sad our money works against us.

Hi Greg, would you mind explaining how to avoid the toxicity that can possibly come with Kentucky 31? Im wanting to plant some in our pasture but i cant seem to find good information on it.

Why test?

Great stuff Greg! How would this fescue do in Northeast Mississippi?

Is there any truth to tall fescue being toxic?

What about other types of fescue? Do they have the same winter stockpile abilities? I don't know what kind of fescue I have here. It's wild as far as I know because it just popped up everywhere 🤣 I know a lot of folks in my area plant "tall" fescue in their pastures

Does the brown grass have any nutritional value Greg?

Does Kentucky 31 change the flavor of the meat?

Would it be wise to seed Kentucky 31 Fescue on your entire land.

You should have grabbed that for the 90 thousand. Cheap. Maybe you'll get some grass fed beef customers hopefully.

And what do you feed may-august when k31 is toxic?

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I always heard Kentucky 31 tall fescue wasn’t good to graze because of the endophyte fungus at least for horses, is it different for cows and sheep?

Hi Greg and Jan: My daughter Isabel and I are interested in your beginning grazing school and tried to sign up. But I could not get the "Buy Now" button to work. Is there another way to sign up? We want to reserve our spots before the spots sell out! Please let us know if we may answer any questions. Take care, Gregg Byrd

Does 31 impart a flavor into the meat?

Shouldn’t be legal. Build houses near town, zone the countryside for agriculture. How are we going to feed ourselves as a country? Short sighted GREED. Sickening

We've got a 300 acre farm beside us about to be developed into 1 acre housing lots. Should be made illegal to cause that much damage to an ecosystem!

Our county just lost hundreds of acres to a solar farm project last year. The whole project went under cause they couldn’t get one solar panel across the border from China. Sterilized the ground and put up all this infrastructure for nothing. Some of the best crop land in Texas.

The big F been going around makes you feel like a brick fell on you flu sucks too

Yes, spraying and mowing your big yard...what a waste.