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Cool Season Grasses for Horses
Growing the right cool season grass for your
horse  or horses can be one of the most important things you can do for their health and well-being. Both annuals and perennials can provide more forage for your horses in the
cool season areas.
Cool Season Pasture Grass - Kentucky Bluegrass
Bluegrass is a long-living perennial grass which originated from Europe and Asia. In Europe bluegrass is called smooth meadow grass. This grass has successfully spread
across half of the United States and into Canada and is well known as a pasture grass for horses, cattle, and sheep throughout the areas of adaptation. Millions of acres are now occupied
whether by purpose or by nature's own seeding and are still being planted today. Bluegrass seeds are easy to harvest and has developed into one of the species with the largest number of
varieties of any grass seed. --- Read more on Bluegrass pastures at the link below.
Kentucky Bluegrasses: www.bluegrasses.com/pasture/index.html
Cool Season Pasture Grass - Fescues And Grass Mixes
Cool season grasses are generally higher in quality than warm-season grasses. The digestibility of cool season grass averages 9% higher than your warm season grasses. The minimum crude protein levels are higher in cool season grasses than warm season grasses.
Annual grasses in both warm and cool season grasses are often found to be higher in quality than perennials. Plants grown at high temperatures generally produce lower quality forage than plants grown under cool temperatures. Find below a list of cool season grass links for more information.
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Buckhorn Pasture Equestrian Mixture
Buckhorn Plus Pasture Blend for Northern areas includes Tall Fescue, Orchardgrass, Ryegrass, LowEndo Tall Fescue, Bluegrass and Festolium.
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More Choices In Pasture Grass For HorsesRyegrasses: Due to the potential for Ryegrasses in
pastures to have the possibility of producing higher than desirable Endophyte production of toxins, you should
only plant ryegrasses that have a known history of safe use for forages such as Passerel or Gulf Annual. Some of
the newer improved perennial ryegrass varieties for lawns often contain Endophytes and are NOT suitable or recommended for pasture use. Plant only
forage type varieties. Read more about using ryegrass in pastures here at
www.ryegrasses.com.
Passerel - Passerel
is an improved forage Annual Ryegrass providing increased forage tonnage at only very little increase in cost over annual ryegrass!
Alfalfa: www.alfalfaseeds.com
Clovers - www.cloverseed.com
Millets - www.milletseed.com
There are numerous other annual forages that are available for planting - Check them out at FarmSeeds.com
or online at Seedland's Farm
Seed Store.
Plant Forage Ryegrasses in the Fall!
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