An animal scientist at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station has shown that a common and inexpensive hormone additive may mitigate the ill effects on growth performance of calves born to cows grazed on endophyte-infected fescue pastures during gestation.
Brittni Littlejohn, assistant professor of animal science for the research arm of the U of A System Division of Agriculture, says fescue is the most common cool-season forage in the southeastern United States, including Arkansas. Most of that fescue is infected with endophyte fungus, which is beneficial to the grass, but…
