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Field Crops Research: Grasses

Research Reports
2017: Maximizing Both Alfalfa and Grass Quality of Mixtures
2014: Meadow Fescue-Alfalfa Mixtures for Improved Forage Quality, NNYADP

Tall Fescue Variety Assessment in NNY
2013
2012

Feeding Tall Fescue to Dairy Cows
Two published studies (Debbie Cherney/Cornell University) in which fescue produced as much or more milk in balanced dairy rations as alfalfa are:
Influence of alfalfa/fescue silage mixtures on milk production of early-lactation Holstein cows; Cherney, D.J.R., J.H. Cherney, L.E. Chase, Journal of Animal Science, 11:555-564, 2002

Lactation performance of Holstein cows fed fescue, orchardgrass or alfalfa silage; Cherney, D.J.R., J.H. Cherney, L.E. Chase, Journal of Animal Science, 87:2268-2276, 2004

Click here for Cornell Fact Sheet on Feeding Alfalfa-Grass to Dairy Cows

NY Forage Legume & Grass Variety Yield Trials
2013
2012

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