Perennial ryegrass, the UK’s most commonly sown species, has three live leaves on every individual plant (tiller); once the fourth leaf starts to grow, the first and oldest leaf dies. The aim of ...

We tested perennial ryegrasses for yield, persistence, nutritive value and preference under livestock grazing. Grazing began the following spring with horses in St. Paul and beef cow-calf pairs in ...

Work conducted at Aberystwyth University on grazing weaned lambs on pure swards of red clover, lucerne and perennial ryegrass from July to finishing, showed that lucerne was between the crops in terms ...

Perennial rye-grass is a tough native grass that can be found on roadside verges, rough pastures and waste ground; it was once the most commonly sown grass in leys (fields used for grazing livestock) ...

In the upper-Midwest, cool-season perennial grasses are the foundation of productive horse pastures. But there may be opportunities to use other forages, such as annual cool-season grasses, to extend ...

tall spring legume growth - especially of species that already tend to grow tall and lush in a good spring like arrow leaf clover - can smother companion native or introduced tropical grasses for ...

Grazing by non-native livestock such as sheep, cattle and horses dates back to the mid-to-late 1800s by Europeans, these early practices were not ecologically sustainable and led to widespread overuse ...

Forage species are classified as grasses or legumes and must tolerate close grazing because horses are capable of extreme defoliation. Cool-season perennial grasses are adapted to the northeast USA.

Since that time cows have been bred with semen from New Zealand bulls originating from grazing dairies ... grazed cool season grasses like low-endophyte fescue and perennial ryegrass.

The pros relative to native perennial pasture grasses are noteworthy – low ... reach about 2-4 inches in height or before they begin to shade emerging grasses. 8. Avoid grazing new stands during the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne ) is one of the most popular ...