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As a horseman specializing in challenging horses, Reed Edwards is used to coming up with creative solutions. It is no surprise he applied the same approach to forages. “I’m used to doing oddball stuff and I’m somewhat adventurous,” says the Laurens, South Carolina, horseman and hay producer. His choice of an alfalfa and novel endophyteContinue reading “Creative Mix Yields Winning Results”

Dates are set for three in-person Novel Endophyte Tall Fescue Renovation Workshops. All workshops will include discussions on toxicosis, establishment, quality control and cost share opportunities as well as hands on drill calibration and tours of variety plots. Registration links will be open at the beginning of the year. Registration is currently open for theContinue reading “Save the Date: Spring Workshops are set”

In 2022, the Alliance for Grassland Renewal launched it’s Certified Dealer Program, to highlight those seed dealers and farm stores that carry novel endophyte tall fescue products, and have educated themselves on these products by attending a workshop. For December of 2022, we are adding two dealers to the program. You can find their fullContinue reading “New Certified Dealers”

It has been a busy month at Triple Creek with our calving season which started October 16.  We started with the heifers that were synchronized and bred AI for the 4th time last year.  I have been resistant to using AI in the past because I thought it was a lot of effort for theContinue reading “Triple Creek Journal: The Miracle of Life”

In 2022, the Alliance for Grassland Renewal launched it’s Certified Dealer Program, to highlight those seed dealers and farm stores that carry novel endophyte tall fescue products, and have educated themselves on these products by attending a workshop. For November of 2022, we are adding three dealers to the program. You can find their fullContinue reading “Alliance launches Certified Dealer Program”

Adding red clover into grass-based pastures has many benefits but red clover is highly susceptible to herbicides, such as 2,4-D, used for broadleaf weed management in pastures.  In 2005, Dr. Norman Taylor began a project to create a 2,4-D tolerant red clover for Kentucky by crossing a 2,4-D tolerant red clover line from the UniversityContinue reading “Developing a Herbicide Tolerant Red Clover”

A myth can be defined in several ways, but it is often thought to be something that has been repeatedly stated over a period of years such that it becomes accepted truth when, in fact, it isn’t. Often, a myth is only partially true. At last month’s Kentucky Grazing School, a quartet of grazing mythsContinue reading “Many factors dictate how often to move cattle”

It continues to be a strange year with alternating dry and wet periods.  We were very dry through September and then the last day of the month we had Hurricane Ian come through and leave us 3.5 inches of rain, with a similar amount across most of North Carolina and South Central Virginia.  Since thatContinue reading “Triple Creek Journal: What to do when the tall fescue stands finally thin out”

Novel-endophyte (NE) tall fescue is a productive, persistent grass plant for the Fescue Belt of the United States, where the soils and climate support tall fescue. Novel-endophyte tall fescue supports a high level of animal performance comparable to endophyte-free (EF) tall fescue, while delivering the agronomic performance expected from toxic KY-31 tall fescue. The NEContinue reading “New Resource: Comparison of Commercially Available Novel-Endophyte Tall Fescue Forage Varieties”

Each morning, we experience some of the many services of soil — soft cotton fibers from which to arise, clean water to wash our face, firm ground to stand on, and the aromas of brewed coffee, baking pastries, and sizzling bacon. Benefits we derive from soil and its processes are called ecosystem services. Biomass productionContinue reading “Soil and Grasslands serve each other”