2024 Annual Grass Report: Warm Season and Cool Season (Cereals)

Published on May. 12, 2025

Summer annual grasses provide an important forage crop option for producers in Kentucky. These grasses are mainly used as emergency or supplemental pasture, silage, or hay crops, but little information is available on their yield potential.

2024 Cool-Season Grass Grazing Tolerance Report

Published on May. 12, 2025

Cool-season forages such as tall fescue, orchardgrass, and Kentucky bluegrass are the primary pasture grasses in Kentucky. Other species such as perennial ryegrass and festulolium can also be used in pasture systems. Little is known about the effect of variety on the grazing tolerance of these cool-season grass species.

100 Years of Research at UKREC: Forages

Published on Apr. 16, 2025

By Susan Baniak, UK Marketing and Agriculture Communications